Penguin
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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) 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:

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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.

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. Orkut is a foray of one their employees into the hotbed of online social networks.

Besides the main Google page, there are region specific ones like the NewZealand version, 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 spot against imposters from Worcester. 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.