Google is full!

Check out this statement by Eric Schmidt in http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/04/google_bigdaddy_chaos/:

Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has hinted at another reason for the
recent chaos. In Google's earnings conference call last month, Schmidt was frank
about the extent of the problem. "Those machines are full," he said. "We have a huge machine crisis."

And here: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/21/business/GOOGLE.php

Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has hinted at another reason for the recent chaos. In Google's earnings conference call last month, Schmidt was frank about the extent of the problem. "Those machines are full," he said. "We have a huge machine crisis."

Like the rest of the Google cheerleaders around the world, I always assumed Google to just have to add new cheap machines to their borg network and voila, a few terabytes cheap new storage, without a worry of the machines failing or data loss. This is a huge surprise to me, that they can actually be full. So it's back to earth now for a company invaded by Aliens and enhanced using Alien technology.

Now that we're back on earth, I wonder - CAN GOOGLE EVER KEEP UP WITH THE WEB? CAN ONE COMPANY HAVE ENOUGH MACHINES TO INDEX THE ENTIRE WORLD?

Way back in Altavista, they planned to keep the entire web in one machine's silicon memory. Now that this is clearly rubbish, let's wait on the future to tell us whether google is rubbish.