We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites,” wrote Urs Hölzle, SVP Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow. Citing declining usage and a focus on fewer products...
A New York Times article has a detailed analysis of Google's infrastructure and discussion with Urs Hölzle, senior vice president for operations at Google. Here are some of the key points I pulled from that article.
Google's Urs Hölzle presentation about Google's Linux cluster at the University of Washington, 2002 Yesterday, we linked to a News.com article about how Google's data centers operate. Want to learn? Today, Philipp reminds us about an October 2004...
We've been pushing up the index size beyond what we've officially said," said Urs HÖlzle, Google Fellow. We've been able to find all Usenet archives and index them" with the help of a number of individuals who maintained archives and made them...
