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Who's Afraid of Google?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-the-end-there-can-be-only-one dept.

Khuffie writes "Wired has an interesting article about who's afraid of Google: in short, almost everyone! "Even in the early days, its ultimate goal was extravagant: to organize the world's information. High-minded as that sounds, Google's ever-expanding agenda has put it on a collision course with nearly every company in the information technology industry: Amazon.com, Comcast, eBay, Yahoo!, even Microsoft.""

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  1. Re:What about... by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 3, Informative
    Actually, very little of what data they collect is in a database/databases. Almost all of the data is managed via the GFS (google file system).

    http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html

    "The file system has successfully met our storage needs. It is widely deployed within Google as the storage platform for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development efforts that require large data sets. The largest cluster to date provides hundreds of terabytes of storage across thousands of disks on over a thousand machines, and it is concurrently accessed by hundreds of clients."

  2. Re:Beware of Google AI by abigor · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ah, good old Mentifex, back again. For those of you who are unaware of the history of one of the Internet's greatest kooks, here is a nice faq.

    http://www.nothingisreal.com/mentifex_faq.html