Google Unveils Google "Caffeine": Improves Search Indexing, Speed and Accurary

In response to the new threats in the search industry from Facebook's real-time search, Twitter Search and Bing, Google has unveiled a secret project they worked on for some time: A next-generation search engine.

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. It's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits "under the hood" of Google's search engine, which means that most users won't notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we're opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.

Although some sites such as Mashable claim to test several aspects of this Google 2.0 (if we can call it this way) but only received criticism for over-analysis. As Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google mentioned on his blog, the main focus is the back-end code:

(...) Google is quite serious about scrutinizing our codebase regularly and rewriting the parts that don’t scale well to make them more robust, more elegant, or faster.

So head out to try Google's "Caffeine" update at: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and let Google know if you find any major difference in Search Engine Results by clicking on "Dissatisfied? Help us improve" and adding the word caffeine in the text.

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