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The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick
An anonymous reader writes "Like his friends Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Craig Silverstein abandoned his PhD studies at Stanford to become employee No.1 and technology director at Google. While building the search engine in a garage, never in his wildest dreams did he think Google would become what it is today. Not only is it the envy of software giant Microsoft, Google continues to redefine the technology market with its creativity and tenacity. In this in-depth interview, Silverstein discusses a wide range of issues including the backlash against Gmail among privacy advocates, the company's cultural changes and its shifting reliance on PageRank."
That's never gonna stop anyone who really wants to read your old mail.
$ echo "ceci n'est pas une pipe" | sed -Ee 's/(eci n|pas )//g'
What bugs me about Google is all the aggregators and useless pages-full-o-links-without-any-content sites that show up so high in the results when you are seeking, for example, technical information about _X_ piece of hardware.
Was looking for setup details on a Siemens router today, so I googled the brand and model #. The first few pages were results from overpriced worthless drop-ship web "retailers" instead of useful information. Isn't that stuff supposed to be over on Froogle instead?
I remember the last time there was a big brouhaha over something that Google did, which was when we acquired the Usenet archives from Deja.com
/. in one day.
The last brouhaha people had was when Google de-listed xenu.net completeley over a complaint from Scientology.
It was March 2002. Buying out Deja was 2/12/2001. Scientology lead with 2 stories on
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
At least in the US, a good lawyer can make a case that the PGP will self-incriminate based on the fifth amendment.
That doesn't mean jack-sqaut in a civil suit which is what I was mostly worrying about in my parent post. They can subpenoa just about anything and everything.
You have less rights in a civil case and the burden of proof is much lower.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
If you had bothered to read the FAQs on Gmail instead of being anal and cribbing here, you would have noticed that Gmail allows a total email size of 10 MB.
The reason? they don't want you to use it as your personal hard drive on the web. If you want a hard drive, use one of the hard drive websites. This is perfectly understandable since they must have done their calculations on how much space a person would really use, and that would be based on emails and regular attachments, not file backups.
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." - Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
Google is not the same as a Googol
-Colin