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It's happened before, at least once very early on: Google had taken ill. The problem was the index storing the contents of the web in Google's server
by pjin 14y ago
It's happened before, at least once very early on:
Google had taken ill.
The problem was the index storing the contents of the web
in Google's servers. For a couple of months in early 2000,
it wasn't updating at all. Millions of documents created
during that period weren't being being collected. As far as
the Google search engine was concerned, they didn't exist.
http://books.google.com/books?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C&pg=PA41&dq=in+the+plex+updating+at+all&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FYSfT_qtLMn16AHnsei2Ag&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C&pg=PA41...
- ajross 14y agoIt's a nit, but this wasn't a "data loss" event. It was a bug that prevented the storing of the data in the first place. Backup strategies (either cloud-managed or "hanging on to your local hard drive" as lukeschlather posits) would not have helped.