NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising

prostoalex writes "John Markoff and G. Pascal Zachary from The New York Times take a look at Google, its already dominant position in the field of Web search and its increasing influence in the field of Internet advertising. Google is driving advertisers away from larger advertising venues, like AOL-TW et al., since (surprise!) people actually pay attention to relevant text links and are quite annoyed by pop-ups and similar "innovations". Some interesting data about Google: number of employees is about 800, number of buildings is 4, number of servers is 54K, for which there are about 100K microprocessors and 261K hard drives. This is claimed to be the largest computing system in the world, and that also raises barriers for anyone entering the field of Web search - most of companies out there can only imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, let alone build them so that the Web searches are delivered within a second."

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Dear Mr. Markoff

[Gruturo]

I sincerely hope you go down in flames for the way you treated Kevin Mitnick.
You probably cost him 3 to 6 additional months of his life in a federal prison.

I hope you suffer the most humiliating informatic accident of history, which should ideally terminate your career and cause the whole world to instantly erase every memory it has about you and everything you wrote, while you're still alive and forgotten.

Shame on you.

Mod parent down

[Snaller]

The REAL link to the article is this:

No, the real link was in the story (which works just fine thank you) - what you are using as a backdoor that the NewYork Times doesn't want people to use. If enough twits like you keep posting that like they will remove it.