Re: SQL and Google (was: COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2

On 17 Sep, 02:51, "William M. Klein" <wmkl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Robert" <n...@xxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:59:05 -0500, "Judson McClendon" <ju...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Charles Hottel" <chot...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
In the situations I am familiar with, traditional mainframe databases blow
the doors off SQL type approaches. Whoever designed SQL must have
been entirely clueless, or indifferent, to machine efficiency.

Everyone who's run a Google search knows that to be untrue. It displays the
time it spent
searching three billion Web pages. I just did it with four wildcard words --
"for * * nail
the * was lost". It found 27,000 in .08 seconds. That's fast!

Serious question: Do Google searches actually use SQL "under the covers"? I
always assumed (with no evidence to back this up) that they used a "proprietary"
system that didn't use any standard (SQL or otherwise) selection facility.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com

And do Google searches search web pages? My understanding was that
they search indices extracted from web pages.

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