July 4, 2006

A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor - New York Times

A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor - New York Times

A fascinating tale of Google's implementation of advanced technologies by smart people to do computing, networking and applications on a grand scale. Their designs for distributed data storage make frequent backups of the data unnecessary.

They are intent on creating the cheapest, most reliable computing network in the world. They probably already have it. In any event, such a task is necessary if they truly intend to "organize the world's information."

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