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Meet the Italian Who Beat Google to Web Search — and Gave It Away – Bloomberg
“After the speech, Marchiori returned home in the hopes of realizing his ambitious design. “When I came back to Italy, I asked the university for 20,000 euros to develop a search engine, but instead, they financed a project about the history of copper metallurgy in Italy,” he says. Meanwhile, Page got his first $100,000 check […]
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Amazon data center size | Huan Liu’s Blog
Although Amazon would never tell you, I have figured out a way to probe for its size. There have been early guesstimates on how big Amazon cloud is, and there are even tricks to figure out how many virtual machines are started in EC2, but this is the first time anyone can estimate the real […]
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Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality | Threat Level | Wired.com
“At issue is Google Fiber’s Terms of Service, which contains a broad prohibition against customers attaching “servers” to its ultrafast 1 Gbps network in Kansas City.Google wants to ban the use of servers because it plans to offer a business class offering in the future. A potential customer, Douglas McClendon, filed a complaint against the […]
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Google Respins Its Hiring Process For World Class Employees – Slashdot
“‘We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship. It’s a complete random mess.’ This sounds similar to criticism of Google’s hiring process occasionally levied by outsiders. Beck says Google […]
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Google Stats
“Here are some official stats for the most important Google services and software: Google Search – 1 billion users (September 2010), 100 billion searches per month (August 2012) Google Maps – 1 billion monthly active users (June 2012) YouTube – 1 billion unique users every month (March 2013) Android – 900 million activations (May 2013) […]
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Mario Hibert: Bibliotekari u umreženom društvu postaju nositelji društvenih promjena – Kultura / Novi list
“Tema kojom se bavim u svom istraživanju je društveno odgovorno, kritičko, progresivno i radikalno bibliotekarstvo. Pitanje je na koji način bibliotekari danas razumijevaju svoj identitet – da li kao instrument kapitalističke ideologije uslužnosti ili kroz aktualizaciju aktivističkih obilježja poziva? Nameće se i pitanje postoji li u vrijeme interneta potreba za bibliotekarom? ” via Mario Hibert: […]