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A Peek Into the Google

Posted by Hemos on from the going-under-the-hood dept.

A number of people sent in the most recent story from the NYTimes (reg yada yada) from a reporter who visited the Google-land. Interesting story, no real information though, but the ability to see what people are thinking about and interested in is pretty cool.

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  1. Privacy issues with google by kemikalzen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On request whether Google gets subpoenas for giving out personal information:

    "Google does not comment on the details of legal matters involving Google," Mr. Brin responded.

    This is most interesting, and one can only assume that since they're US based, at some point they will/can be forced to give out data for crossreferencing Gov't databases. Imagine [insert gov't agency here] gets hold of the IP-address of [insert (suspected unamerican/criminal/terrorist) person here] they can easily extract profiling information on the individual.

    Scary

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  2. Hey Taco by sql*kitten · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Its amazing that most people of the world search for similar things, irrespective of language! Good they put filters.... otherwise a normal visitor would be shocked that most of the world wants naked ladies.

    How about an E2 zeitgeist? Cream of the cool is close, but it would be interesting to see what people are searching for as well as what they are contributing. I sometimes even check E2 before Google, because at least there is some active quality control on E2 nodes, unlike the web at large.

  3. Read an interview from Google's... by craenor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Director of Operations. He said they use Linux because it's cheap and because they get better support.

    When asked how they can get better support for Linux, he answered, "We're Google, if we need to know something about the Linux we are running, we can usually find the guy who wrote the code and ask him."

    Must be nice...

  4. This reminds me of by Freston+Youseff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Metacrawler's Metaspy. Check out what people are searching for on Metacrawler. Choosing the "Metaspy Exposed" option allows you to see unfiltered queries; a surprising number of them are quite shady. ;)

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  5. Re:Great Google Searches by jonathanclark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Another iteresting google search trick. Search for "http" and you will get a list of the top page-ranked sites on the internet.

    It's an interesting unbasied "who's who" list with a few surprises.

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