Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search
“Yup. I think that’s even abstracted. From a computer perspective, they see the master map, they feel like they have access to the whole file, but then what’s actually getting returned to them to operate on is only just the chunk data that they need.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
Transcript context
…Basically, that one server you’re talking about can just say, oh, all the chunks are here on all these different machines that are distributed throughout my data center. Just look at those chunks. That way it can just pull in a parallel way from all those different chunks concurrently. Yup. I think that’s even abstracted. From a computer perspective, they see the master map, they feel like they have access to the whole file, but then what’s actually getting returned to them to operate on is only just the chunk data that they need. Google was forced to do distributed computing because their index file was too large to store on any one machine, no matter how big or fancy it could be.…
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