How Google/Amazon/eBay use?

"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Bf48d.4079$eq1.2873@trnddc08>...
> http://www-free.info wrote:
> > I am pretty sure that Google does not use database. Not sure about
> > Amazon or eBay
>
> Excuse me?
> Where do you think they store their millions of articles/queries/items?
>
> jue

Tupperware.

Jürgen Exner wrote:
> http://www-free.info wrote:
>> I am pretty sure that Google does not use database. Not sure about
>> Amazon or eBay
>
> Excuse me?
> Where do you think they store their millions of
> articles/queries/items?
>
> jue

Store?? I thaught they were in the computer...

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Jürgen Exner wrote:
> http://www-free.info wrote:
>
>>I am pretty sure that Google does not use database. Not sure about
>>Amazon or eBay
>
>
> Excuse me?
> Where do you think they store their millions of articles/queries/items?

RAIP - redundant array of inexpensive pigeons

"http://www-free.info" <aa@bb.cc> wrote in message news:<rvSdnb3DUews5f3cRVn-qA@rogers.com>...
> As far as I know
> Amazon uses Perl
> eBay uses C
> Google, was not using PHP at
> all before late 2003. I bet it is using C.
>
> I am pretty sure that Google does not use database. Not sure about Amazon or
> eBay

1. PHP <http://toolbar.google.com/failed.php>
2. PHP3 <http://toolbar.google.com/whatsnew.php3>
3. py <http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/request.py>

But heard that Google uses MySQL, not sure. But sure they use Linux.

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In comp.lang.php http://www-free.info <aa@bb.cc> wrote or quoted:

> As far as I know
> Amazon uses Perl
> eBay uses C

Ebay uses Java on Solaris servers running IBM's Websphere.
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mammothman42@hotmail.com wrote:
> No, no, google actually uses QuickBasic. Seriously. Amazon runs Pascal,
> and it's made by underpaid and undermotivated teenagers.
>
> 10 IF web=SearchTerm GOTO resultspage
> Google isn't really that complex people, it's all in the GOTO's. ;)
>

I thought all web development was done in FORTRAN and COBAL...
(Sometimes I whish it was, then I could have been a millionaire by now!)

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"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Bf48d.4079$eq1.2873@trnddc08...
> http://www-free.info wrote:
> > I am pretty sure that Google does not use database. Not sure about
> > Amazon or eBay
>
> Excuse me?
> Where do you think they store their millions of articles/queries/items?
>
> jue

Keanu Reeves's brain?

Justin Koivisto <spam@koivi.com> wrote:

>mammothman42@hotmail.com wrote:
>> No, no, google actually uses QuickBasic. Seriously. Amazon runs Pascal,
>> and it's made by underpaid and undermotivated teenagers.
>>
>> 10 IF web=SearchTerm GOTO resultspage
>> Google isn't really that complex people, it's all in the GOTO's. ;)
>
>I thought all web development was done in FORTRAN and COBAL...
>(Sometimes I whish it was, then I could have been a millionaire by now!)

No, it is done in the object-oriented version of COBOL. It is called "ADD
ONE TO COBOL."
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Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

Tim Tyler wrote:
> In comp.lang.php http://www-free.info <aa@bb.cc> wrote or quoted:
>
>
>>As far as I know
>>Amazon uses Perl
>>eBay uses C
>
>
> Ebay uses Java on Solaris servers running IBM's Websphere.

What should we learn from that long useless post?
Don't drink and post!

> No, it is done in the object-oriented version of COBOL. It is called
"ADD
> ONE TO COBOL."

Now that is funny.

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