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Newer page: version 8 Last edited on Friday, October 17, 2003 2:02:43 pm by StuartYeates Revert
Older page: version 7 Last edited on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 12:49:37 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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 The search engine to end all search engines, developed at StanfordUniversity. Running on what is probably the world's biggest Linux [Cluster], currently processing over 150,000,000 queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. 
  
 ;: ''Actually [http://www.archive.org/] is probably the biggest one, but I'm not sure. They certainly have more storage capacity than [Google]. Anyone with more facts please AddToMe. --AristotlePagaltzis'' 
  
-Besides the main [Google | http://www.google.com/] page, there are region specific ones like [the NewZealand version | http://google.co.nz/]. 
+Besides the main [Google | http://www.google.com/] page, there are region specific ones like [the NewZealand version | http://google.co.nz/], which appear to be mainly about selling regoin-specific adds and ``Sponsored Links''  
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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 (at least that's what I use---StuartYeates)
  
 If you're outside NewZealand, it's very likely you found the WlugWiki through [Google]! 
  
 An ex-WaikatoUniversity student from the Digital Libraries lab used to work for [Google].