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Behind the Scenes At Google
An anonymous reader writes "University of Wahington TV Presents "behind the Scenes With Google." From the site: 'Search is one of the most important applications used on the internet and poses some of the most interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of computer science disciplines. In this program, Jeff Dean of Google describes some of these challenges, discusses applications Google has developed, and highlights systems they've built, including GFS, a large-scale distributed file system, and MapReduce, a library for automatic parallelization and distribution of large-scale computation. He also shares some interesting observations derived from Google's web data.' "
Google is actually a giant super computer which has become self-aware. Every person it "hires" is actually one more person it saps knowledge from. In the not too distant future, it hopes to be able to network every human completely so that it can collect the remaining knowledge on Earth more easily.
Man, that's *so* twentieth century. I came to /. for the bleeding edge in information acquisition technology: realtime optical scanning blocks of glyphs encoding human language.
I can't absorb information I can't copy/paste.
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
Wow. If anything can melt a university web server surly a slashdot posting with a link to a 5.6 Mbps mpeg-2 stream on a Google talk is it.
Real men don't do backups.
Whoa, whoa.. it's hard enough for us to RTFA but now we've got to WTFV (an hour long one too)?
The average slashdotter has an attention span of 5 secon.. ooh look a birdie!
Can't wait for the "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature on that one!
"Behind the scenes at Google" invokes images of clowns and mimes. Is it just me?
Yup - it's only you.
You happen to be only one of the millions of people searching for adult pictures online.
You are about as anonymous as it gets.
I've never realised that GFS was developed by Google
:P
So what did you think the G stood for?
one word: short any rally.
The receptionist signs an NDA promising to never turn around ... :P
That must be one embaressed receptionist. And lots of embaressed visitors.
can anyone confirm that Leni Riefenstahl was behind this film?
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
Thats no secret, it's pigeons.
Muwahaha
Hi Receptionist, Im looking at you"
..has never been more appropriate
Here's a summary of the most interesting part.
...Google seems to be down a lot lately? Like right now, I can't seem to get to it...what's with that?
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack