Google has made a major change in its search results indexing system by adopting 'Caffeine' web indexing. The update is anticipated to provide fresher and quicker indexing of the web content, especially dynamic pages.
This new system will provide a plethora of new changes including better indexing for video and images, higher speed and accuracy of results. Google has been preparing to launch Caffeine for almost a year. According to Google, this new system will provide almost 50% faster indexing of the web content. The new algorithms analyze and index small portions of the web on continuous basis instead of updating several layers which would take weeks at times to index new content.
According to the search giant, Caffeine is able to process hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel every second. The total space required for the indexing of the web counts to millions of gigabytes with "hundreds of thousands of gigabytes added per day". Thus indexing algorithms needs not only to be faster but smarter as well.
The new system is also highly scalable to provide better support for the ever increasing web content. This addition will further strengthen Google's position in the web search category while Bing tries to catch up. For more information, read the complete entry at Google blog.
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