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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Sunday, February 1, 2004 3:15:15 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Friday, October 17, 2003 2:02:43 pm | by StuartYeates | 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
.
+The WorldWideWeb
search engine to end all search engines.
-;:
''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''
+It 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
.
-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''
+Besides the web search
, they offer a multide of services
:
-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)
.
+;; %%% __Google Image Search__ : Find images by keywords. It doesn't always work well, but it's useful.
+;; %%% __GoogleGroups__ : The largest UseNet archive around.
+;; %%% __Google Directory__ : A human edited catalogue of web addresses, in cooperation with [DMOZ | http://www.dmoz.org].
+;; %%% __Google News__ : Uses the [Google] web index to compose information from 4,500 news sources and lets you search the results. %%% ''
http://www.google.com/news?q=linux&num=50 can be a good alternative to [SlashDot] for those not into flamefests --StuartYeates
''
+
+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.
+
+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''
.
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].
