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- paiguy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Orlowski is full.
...full of it. - phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22This is what happens when you don't link to real sources.
- CausticNoise, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18So the quote
Referring to the sheer volume of Web site information, video and e-mail that Google's servers hold, Schmidt said: "Those machines are full. We have a huge machine crisis."
is in context? I got the same impression from that in-context quote as I did from the "Google is Full" article. Regardless of which one you read, it sounds about the same, I think. They're having problems with full servers all the same. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17I guess google should hit up taco bell.
- cws125, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The title of this story is inaccurate.
Eric Schmidt did say "Those machines are full. We have a huge machine crisis.", therefore, the title "Google's not full" is incorrect. The article just disagrees with Orlowski's implication that this is causing problems for Google regarding search quality. - crumpy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The attempt to straighten things out actually makes them seem worse and more plausible not to mention the fact that absolutely nothing was taken "out of context".
The chance that spam blogs are filling up google's computers too rapidly is a little light standing by itself. But add the info about video and audio to the fact that google spent more than twice as much as the nearest competitor on infrastructure upgrades and ... bingo, sounds like Orlowski was right on the money. - cwoolf34, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Seems like digg is becoming filled with more rebuttles, which is better then just having a bunch of BS stories without a follow up. digg def. needs more catagories and some moderators (just to check sources on anything that makes the front page). If digg keeps having so many false stories hit the front page then the media (MSNBC, CNN, WSJ) will probably not trust digg as a reliable source. I know that isn't a huge deal, but since digg is basically designed for lazy folks to see the cutting edge news and not have to sort through long articles, that means a lot of people obviously don't even click to read the linked article (old news, I know), which means that millions of these lazy folks are going to be misinformed, A LOT.
Put bluntly, digg is to slashdot, as drinking from a fire-hose is to drinking from a bottle of spring water; You can take in a lot more with the fire-hose, but you don't get the quality and cleanliness as drinking from a bottle of spring water. - prence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Wow, a digg article rebuttle on a previous article proving it all wrong. How many times has this been done in the past month?
.. every ***** day. - hammy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8You must be new here.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Having a beef isn't worthy of a digg and since we're all so interested in "real journalism", who is this blogger and why is he someone I should be MORE interested in reading/digging?
Quit shooting the messenger. Anyone can speak the truth if he knows it.
Credibility is something you build, not something you just get when you're
hired by someone. Ask the NYT and Jayson Blair.
If you bash every blog simply for being one, you're just another ip address in
a brainless mob. Interpretation and opinion is not *always* inaccuracy. It can
be FUD, but so far there's no FUD button. - Jovan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well there's two ways you can say it
The machines are full because of a crisis (bug or faulty machines), thefore, they have a crisis.. or
The machines are full, no more space, so therefore, they have a crisis - etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Correct me if I'm wrong here... and, I'm sure you will - bu how does this statement, which is IN context, not imply that the full machines are causing problems to Google services?
Referring to the sheer volume of Web site information, video and e-mail that Google's servers hold, Schmidt said: "Those machines are full. We have a huge machine crisis."
Personally, the Orlowski statement is just as true to me as it was before this "explanation". - Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its not full...just full of garbage..
- joelhardi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Don't go ... stay here and help mod down all the lies.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just remembered something. I subscribe to a few google alerts, and in the last couple of weeks I've been recieving alerts for pages that do not contain the term specified in the alert. One explanation could be that the pages have changed in the short period of
time between when the alert generated and I checked it out. Usually this happens on
forum links, but in this case not one alert was for a forum. It could easily be something
else. Just wondering if anyone else had noticed anything like this? - cwoolf34, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6LOL
No, been here since a month after digg launched. I don't post much, or submit stories. I know it's a user driven site (which is great), but anything that makes the front page should def. have its sources checked out. - RoboPimp3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. I don't see how anything was taken out of context. You may not agree with Orlowski's analysis, but the gist of Schmidt's quote--that Google has a machine crisis because of the sheer quantity of information they hold--is the same in both contexts.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Full or not, as long as google sevices works for me I could care less. Every hard drive that gets any use at eventually fills. Why is this a sursprise?
If it is true, my car's fuel tank is jealous. - cwoolf34, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3agreed
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+11first of all it's petabyte, not petrabite; and Fujitsu made the array you're refering to, not Kodak
- Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -11/+11The original article makes it sound as if Google's full servers are causing searches to appear incorrect which is not what the quote was talking about. That is how the "context" is different.
And even if they are "full" as was said before, if you read the section that the quote in question came from, you will see that they are spending another $345 million on hardware to keep up with it, thus, if they are full, they will not be for long. - mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4For the love of...
The quote was out of context, you don't know the entirety of what the guy said. Just b/c you quote directly from an article online, doesn't mean the author quoted directly.
Whatever happened to a grade school education. The masses will be the downfall of digg. - RoboPimp3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0By that measure, every quote in every article ever written is "out of context".
- joelhardi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Don't get me wrong, I like slashdot too, but the ridiculous thing about it is that actual *humans* are reviewing and approving what adds up to just a dozen or so stories a day, yet we still get: nonfactual misinformation, blatant overhype, three-day-old "news," unedited teaser blurbs with grammatical and spelling errors, and dupes of things posted just days before.
Dupes, for crying out loud! How much dope is Taco smoking that he forgets everything that happened two days ago? - electronicmaji, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1hard drives ? who needs hard drives? Google should just buy a bunch of chinese kids lock them in their basement and force them to remember numbers :D.
- diggerphelps, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2aw crap, I knew somebody would beat me to the taco bell joke. ;-)
- SirNuke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Then go somewhere else. Digg is more "raw uncut unfiltered Internet" than most news sites, which leads to this sort of thing.
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2diggFUD.com
- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -12/+9Good follow-up from the earlier article. Thanks for the clarification.
- scriptkiddie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Orlowski is the Bill O'reilly of technology :)
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3..and we need less comments like yours..
- maukdaddy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0hahahaha I got modded down in the original for complaining about linking to The Register.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Ugh, just, ugh.
- muffinmanpoo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I don't get it...
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Searching for hackwrench@yahoo.com gets me results that don't contain the term, not even in the cached page source. Altavista isn't any better though.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4"Kodac"?
Kodak has two K's. The reason it's named Kodak is that the founder liked the letter K and wanted a company with a name that started and ended with K. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Uhh which stories on Digg.com are true?
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THE POWER OF T3H 1NT3RN3TZ COMPELS YOU! - orbitalleader, on 10/12/2007, -16/+10What's the difference between what El Reg reported and what some blog reported? It's the same exact quote. What "context" is different? -no digg, inaccurate, google fanboi.
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -15/+8I completely agree. I reread both quotes a couple of times, and the "context" is not at all different.
It seems as soon as some blog writes about Google and the digg article contains Google in the title people digg it. This is just stupid. - cwoolf34, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6LOL... It took me a second to get that one. F***ing clever comment. We need more comments like this one ^.
- Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7I definantly agree.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3"[Vincent Foley] May 04, 2006 21:18:07 EDT
Ooh, you made Digg's front page. Hopefully a few people will be interested in Smalltalk. "
...no, no we won't be - corsairstw, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2I didn't think Google was full.
- chad78, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1How about a *real* source - like the International Herald Tribune?
http://digg.com/hardware/No_more_room_on_Google_s_Servers_-_CONFIRMED - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Clarification? I'M LOST WITH ALL THIS FUD!! *blows brains out*
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1Who cares if they are full? they are filthy ***** rich, they can just buy that kodac's (or who ever made it) 3. something petrabite server..
- chad78, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3How about a *real* source - like the International Herald Tribune?
http://digg.com/hardware/No_more_room_on_Google_s_Servers_-_CONFIRMED
Eric Sdhmidt said the servers will "full. We have a huge machine crisis."
How is that out of context? That's what the man said. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2*Edit* .... Just bury this.
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