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Re:Why Can't Gmail Search? by sachinag on Monday August 24, 2009 @02:09PM (#782808)
It is also expensive, but it is less expensive than doing that AND stemming. They just decided that stemming was a line where the benefit (add'l users, more use of Gmail, more AdSense revenue, whatever metric) wasn't worth the (development and ongoing processing) costs.
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Re:Why Can't Gmail Search? by jhancock on Monday August 24, 2009 @02:26PM (#782866)
This is a drawback to putting everything in the cloud: features will be weighed by the CPU cycles and storage required by the providers. Can't wait til we come full circle and get back to client/server computing ;). I'm only half joking. I actually can't wait until things mature enough so we have a hybrid of both models. Then I can decide just how much stuff I want indexed and also not worry what happens when my cable modem flakes out.
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Re:Why Can't Gmail Search? by gloob on Monday August 24, 2009 @05:34PM (#783440)
Can't wait til we come full circle and get back to client/server computing ;).

The next big hype cycle: OS as an OS.

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