Google's Secretive Data Center."Google now has more than 450,000 servers spread over at least 25 locations around the world. Connecting these centers is a high-capacity fiber optic network that the company has assembled over the last few years. Google has found that for search engines, every millisecond longer it takes to give users their results leads to lower satisfaction. So the speed of light ends up being a constraint, and the company wants to put significant processing power close to all of its users." -- how big if the fiber pipe between you and the nearest googleplex port? -- BL
