Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>IBM Knowledge Center should have Google's depth of redundancy?

It would be nice... ;-)


>But Phil Payne (IIRC) once sneered here that he couldn't issue the same Google 
>query twice consecutively and get the same number of hits.  There are two 
>possible reasons for that.

I have also experienced that.

I don't know what your two reasons are, but what I know, Google employs [1] 
several 'spiders' / 'robots' sniffing out all and every webpages and indexing 
contents. These results are collected and send over to the various Google Data 
Centres.

Depending on your timing and _where_ your query is handled by what machine in 
what Google data centre, you may or may not get the same / latest results.

Oh, well ... ;-)

PS: I can't remember where I see that explanation [2], but I will search for it 
later...

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

[1] - much like a super chess playing machine, each CPU gets a certain workload 
and they cascade their workload to yet another idle CPUs.

[2] - I think it was in an article about specific, but scaled-up Unix/Linux 
operating system used by Google.

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