To­day I had a prob­lem with AVG free an­ti-virus (my fa­vorite free an­ti-virus soft­ware, by the way). The up­dater com­po­nent told me that “a .bin file is missing”, a prob­lem which I could not solve my­self. So I searched on Google for it, and lo! the top en­try is a fo­rum post ex­plain­ing that it’s just a tem­po­rary prob­lem with AVG’s up­dates and should be fixed to­mor­row…

Wait a sec­ond, a tem­po­rary prob­lem that should be fixed to­mor­row? I checked the date on the post, and it was from to­day. I knew that Google had a lot of dis­tribut­ed com­put­ing re­sources… but be­ing able to find and in­dex posts, giv­ing them rea­son­able PageR­anks on the day that they ap­pear?

I have now de­vel­oped an en­tire­ly new re­spect for the pow­er of Google.