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The WorldWideWeb search engine to end all search engines. Besides the web search, they offer a multide of services: |
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__Google Image Search__: |
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Find images by keywords. It doesn't always work well, but it's useful. |
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The largest UseNet archive around. |
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__Google Directory__: |
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A human edited catalogue of web addresses, in cooperation with [DMOZ | http://www.dmoz.org]. |
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__Google News__: |
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Uses the [Google] web index to compose information from 4,500 news sources and lets you search the results. |
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''http://www.google.com/news?q=linux&num=50 can be a good alternative to SlashDot for those not into flamefests. --StuartYeates'' |
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A very [AJAX]-enabled free online e-mail service. |
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[AJAX] map service, with street maps and satellite imagery for the US and UK. |
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An instant messaging network that ties in with [GMail]. |
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There also oodles of lesser known services -- see [Google Services & Tools | http://news.google.com/options/index.html]. [Orkut] is a foray of one their employees into the hotbed of online social networks. In anecdotal trivia, [Google] stated recently that they tested removing their ''I'm feeling Lucky'' feature as virtually nobody uses it, but there were howls of protest as it is seen to be part of [Google] and they recanted. |
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There are many region specific [Google] domains like [the NewZealand version | http://google.co.nz/], which appear to be mainly about selling regoin-specific adds and ''Sponsored Links''. If you're outside NewZealand, it's very likely you found the WlugWiki through [Google]! |
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[Google] was developed at StanfordUniversity, runs on what is probably the world's biggest Linux [Cluster] (with the exception of storage giant [Internet Archive | http://www.archive.org/]) with near-100% uptime, and currently processes over 200,000,000 queries a day searching a multi-TeraByte index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second. |
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They are a great employer, and offer many perks and benefits to their employees. They also demand that each employee spend 20% of their time working on personal projects. In return they are quite demanding and of course they are picky about hirees. |
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An ex-WaikatoUniversity student (from the Digital Libraries lab) works for [Google] -- http://craig.nevill-manning.com/ |
