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by dullgiulio 2538 days ago
And Google Search. That's actually treated even more specially (compared to GMail and YT) inside Google and it has amazing reliability.

It would be interesting to know more details. I bet results are sometimes incomplete, but somehow Google manages to keep the system correct enough nobody notices a sudden quality drop.

I also understood Search has some special QoS at all levels: from the network to the scheduling of jobs...