Google Steps Up a Notch

Hours after Facebook announced that it had acquired Friendfeed, the 'news and information-sharing service', Google has unveiled its new next-generation infrastructure. The infrastructure, goes under the name 'Caffeine'. Google hope that this will provide not only a more accurate search, but also a much faster indexing speed.

The company is hoping that it will allow Google to become a better search experience, but also something to compete in the increasingly crowded real-time search segment.

In a post on Google Webmaster Central Blog, Sitaram Iyer, a Staff Software Engineer, and Matt Cutts, Google's Principal Engineer (and Mr Anti Spam), said that "A large team of Googlers have been working for several months on this next generation architecture."

Most users will not notice a difference to the search engine, as the new infrastructure only affects the back-end of the site. Although users will probably find that they don't notice much of a difference, users will find that it appears to render pages much faster, in some cases, it's said that some results are twice as fast.

Google have stressed that there is still much work to do, and they're welcoming feedback from consumers. Visit the trial search here: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

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