Use the Source Luke

[rusi]

On Jan 30, 9:21 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> > I think this is a fairly accurate description of (one aspect of) the
> > problem.
> > If you dont see it as a problem how do you explain that google can
> > search the World Wide Web better than we can search our individual hard
> > disks?
>
> I fail to see any connection between the location that operating systems
> store files, and the ability of Google to index publicly available
> websites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Content-addressed_vs._Location-addressed