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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by llimllib on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @06:37PM (#4045257)

> Google did all that stuff too (almost 1:1, even -- remember that G+ is a facebook clone

That misses qq66's point; G+ isn't a 1:1 clone exactly because it doesn't do anything like a quarter billion photos per day.

I'm not doubting G's potential to handle Facebook scale, but they're very far away from it right now.

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by icebraining on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @07:13PM (#4045367)

Youtube handles 3.7x10⁹ frames per day (assuming 12 fps video, which is a low estimate). That's 3.7 billion frames that have to be converted and checked against an enourmous database of copyrighted content.

You're right that G+ doesn't, but FB doesn't have anything on Google on scaling.

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by gvb on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @06:59PM (#4045320)

What about Youtube? Picassa? Indexing the whole internet? That is some amazing scale.

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by katbyte on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @07:00PM (#4045326)

I would say the scales youtube and google search operate at show that they could easily handle google+ at facebook's scale.

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