Google Caffeine: What it really is

theregister.co.uk

20 points·davecardwell··3 comments

Did anyone else get the feeling that Matt Cutts sounded like some P.R. guy here? I have never heard about him, but his blog does say he's a software engineer and has at least a B.S. in computer science.

On the other hand, most of his quotes in the article are about "revampng/rewriting" the entire "infrastructure" that Google uses to support all of its "platforms". To be more detailed, it's a new version of Google File System (GFS). Other things Cutts says is give an elementary explanation of map-reduce while not being able to say whether this "overhaul" will actually affect Google's MapReduce implementation, or its BigTable one for that matter. Heck, apparently everything Google uses, from MapReduce to actual tools and services, are just categorized under "platforms".

From his website: "Before Google, I worked on my Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky."

The fact that he gave PR like answers doesnt mean he isnt qualified to answer technical questions, only that he is not allowed to reveal too many details of internal Google projects.

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