Will McGugan wrote:
Alan Meyer wrote: I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a
good language for writing search engines.
Wasn't Google's first search engine actualy written in Python?
Not unless it was some kind of quickie prototype that was immediately
discarded in favour of an optimized C version once it was built. The
rumour you're probably referring to is the *web spider* part of the
system, while the indexing/searching stuff is written in C or
something close (memory fails me on that point, but I'm sure Google
itself could easily tell you more).
There's an interesting paper about the early architecture/history of
Google which was a published by the authors (when they were still
in figurative diapers) and which was referenced recently in this
newsgroup. The archives would quickly pull it up for you.
-Peter