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Newer page: version 12 Last edited on Monday, April 18, 2005 7:48:18 pm by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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-The WorldWideWeb search engine to end all search engines. 
+The WorldWideWeb search engine to end all search engines. Besides the web search, they offer a multide of services:  
  
-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
+__Google Image Search__:  
+ Find images by keywords. It doesn't always work well , but it 's useful
  
-Besides the web search, they offer a multide of services
+__GoogleGroups__ :  
+ The largest UseNet archive around.  
  
-;; %%% __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''  
+__Google Directory __:  
+ A human edited catalogue of web addresses, in cooperation with [DMOZ | http://www.dmoz.org]. 
  
-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
+__ Google News__ :  
+ Uses the [Google ] web index to compose information from 4,500 news sources and lets you search the results
  
-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''.  
+ '' http://www.google.com/news?q=linux&num=50 can be a good alternative to SlashDot for those not into flamefests . --StuartYeates '' 
  
-If you 're outside NewZealand , it's very likely you found the WlugWiki through [Google]!  
+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.  
  
-An ex-WaikatoUniversity student from the Digital Libraries lab used to work for [Google]. 
+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/