Google Caffeine soon to be live

Back in August, Google announced that they were developing a new search engine, codenamed Caffeine. The new system is designed to return results faster, and deal with the rapid update of information that comes from service such as Facebook and Twitter.

The move has been widely seen as a response to Microsoft’s search engine update, Bing. While this may be true to a certain extent, Google is constantly reworking and optimising their code base to ensure efficient and streamlined operation. In this regard, a search engine overhaul isn’t such a startling move.

Google search users won’t notice much difference at all on the surface of the search engine landing page as all of the changes are ‘under thehood.’ Google hopes to “push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.”

Having been in sandbox testing for the last two months – open to developers and power searchers to leave feedback – and as spotted by Mashable.com, the page has been removed and now displays the following message:

“We appreciate all the feedback from people who searched on our Caffeine sandbox. Based on the success we’ve seen, we believe Caffeine is ready for a larger audience. Soon we will activate Caffeine more widely, beginning with one data centre. This sandbox is no longer necessary and has been retired, but we appreciate the testing and positive input that webmasters and publishers have given.”
So get ready for a new and improved Google search engine.