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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]!
+
+[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.
+
+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.
+
+
An ex-WaikatoUniversity student (
from the Digital Libraries lab) works
for [Google] -- http://craig.nevill-manning
.com/
