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The WorldWideWeb search engine to end all search engines. 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 web search, they offer a multide of services: ;; %%% __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]! WLUG is currently engaged in a struggle for the [I'm feeling Lucky | http://www.google.com/search?q=wlug] spot against imposters from [Worcester | http://www.wlug.org/]. For a number of weeks in 2004, Worcester eclipsed Waikato, which confounded people who use "I'm feeling Lucky" for mozilla internet keywords. --DouglasBagnall An ex-WaikatoUniversity student from the Digital Libraries lab used to work for [Google].
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