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Re:Where Am I? NYTimes or Google? by amelius on Saturday July 04, 2020 @04:18AM (#23730954)
Google is not a single server. Think of Google as a CDN.
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Re:Where Am I? NYTimes or Google? by oblio on Saturday July 04, 2020 @04:24AM (#23730973)
So it's decentralized because Google has multiple servers? And here I was, thinking that Google runs everything from a single IBM mainframe.

What you're saying would be described as distributed... Not decentralized.

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Re:Where Am I? NYTimes or Google? by HeWhoLurksLate on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:14AM (#23731759)
Seems to me like it's easy to forget there's a difference between those two..
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