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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
