teh blog of Jim

December 27, 2006

Dear Google

Filed under: Rants, Tech — jimX @ 2:42 am

STOP.
INDEXING.
WIKIPEDIA!

Dear Google,
For several days now, Wikipedia has been excruciatingly slow, to the point of it being unusable. I have heard that this happens when you index it, and I’ve noticed that the latest caches of Wikipedia pages are within the last few days. Knowing this, I have been able to determine that you are currently in the process of re-indexing the free encyclopedia. By doing this you are depriving the world of a valuable resource. Please stop. Instead, I suggest that you buy an xServe RAID and ask the wikimedia foundation to copy their articles onto it once a week. Then, the array can be shipped back to a Google office for indexing. This would be cheaper for the Wikimedia foundation, and it would allow for the free flow of information that the Internet and Wikipedia were designed to facilitate.

-jX

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