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The WorldWideWeb search engine to end all search engines. 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''

__[GMail]__:
    A very [AJAX]-enabled free online e-mail service.

__Google Maps__:
    [AJAX] map service, with street maps and satellite imagery for the US and UK.

__GoogleTalk__:
    An instant messaging network that ties in with [GMail].

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.

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/
Last edited on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:08:50 am by CraigBox
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