Russ wrote: > Alex, I think you are missing the point. Yes, I'm sure that web > searches are critical to > Google's mission and commercial success. But the point is that a few > subtle bugs cannot > destroy Google. If your search engines and associated systems have > bugs, you fix them > (or simply tolerate them) and continue on. And if a user does not get > the results he wants, > he isn't likely to die over it -- or even care much.
But if this pattern of not getting wanted results is common, then the user will migrate to alternative search engines and this will *kill* the business. Wrong results won't impact ONE search, but many will impact the company business and will be part of the recipe to take it out of business. > Online financial transactions are another matter altogether, of > course. User won't die, but > they will get very irate if they lose money. But I don't think that's > what you are talking about > here. Lets make someone loose his job and have all his money commitments compromised because of this money lost and we might be talking about people taking their lives. Again, this isn't 100% sure to happen, but it *can* happen. As it happens with a peacemaker: the user won't die if his heart skips one beat, but start skipping a series of them and you're incurring in serious problems. Just because the result isn't immediate it doesn't mean it isn't critical. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
