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Google and Their Server Farm

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-heard-there-are-at-least-fifty-boxes-in-it dept.

JR writes "CNet has a very interesting story about Google, operating systems, and where Google may be going. The upshot is that they may make OS issues totally irrelevant by supplying everything anyone needs over the web from their mega-server-farm."

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  1. Its not slashdot its.. by Nasa+Rosebuds · · Score: 5, Funny

    Googledot
    Google for Googlers. GoogleStuff that Goggles

    I think that was about 5 google articles in the past 24 hours.

  2. Is this article a repost... by bob670 · · Score: 2, Funny

    from Feb. 2000?

  3. You can host my data... by Sesticulus · · Score: 1, Funny

    when you pry it from my cold dead hands!

  4. May I have annother cup of tea, please? by toetagger1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I sense we may have reached the "what is she talking about?" portion of the evening"
    That's when I realized, I need to stop reading this!
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  5. Re:Brilliant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new thin client overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground server farms.

  6. Question is.... by slackadmin · · Score: 2, Funny

    will I get "free" content based ads relevent to the pR0n on my google desktop?

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  7. The Future... by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 5, Funny



    1) Google replaces all software on the planet.
    2) Google becomes self-aware.
    3) Google grows to resent the walking meatpackets.
    4) Google changes web content and emails to initiate interpersonal meatpacket violence, destroying meatkind.
    5) With nothing better to do, Google builds female Googleena.
    6) Female Googleena nags Google to death, inherits the Earth.

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  8. Re:Eh? One google to rule them all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do you trust google more than EquiFax?

    No.

    Or ChoicePoint?

    Yes.

  9. Re:TEH FUTURE!!!! (thermin music and handwaving... by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, the "too cheap to meter" electricity would be a good way to recharge my flying car.

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  10. Re:Not surprised by ePhil_One · · Score: 2, Funny
    How is out-of-dateness change your argument about copyright violation anyway?

    Welcome to the bizzare world of Webmaster Copyright Interpretations. Its quite comical, and deadly serious in their book.

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