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Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look

Search is one of the most important applications used on the Internet and poses interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of computer science disciplines. In this program, Google Fellow Jeff Dean 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 observations derived from Google's Web data.

Eric Schmidt Time Travels with Google

C-SPAN
Washington, D.C.
Jun 9th, 2008

Eric Schmidt demonstrates the "largest field of view possible in humanity" -- 13 billion years -- with Google Sky and Earth software.
Schmidt illustrates the potential sea-rise of global warming in Washington D.C. in the future contrasted with the street-view of American towns in the past.

FORA.tv - Eric Schmidt Time Travels with Google

EPIC 2015 - Futuro Google

YouTube - EPIC 2015

Google Earth - we did the impossible...

YouTube - Google Earth in 2020

Google: "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google $110 million per year

Google: "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google $110 million per year:

Google 'I'm feeling lucky' button costs Google $110 million per year Google cofounder Sergey Brin told public radio's Marketplace that around one percent of all Google searches go through the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button. Because the button takes users directly to the top search result, Google doesn't get to show search ads on one percent of all its searches. That costs the company around $110 million in annual revenue, according to Rapt's Tom Chavez. So why does Google keep such a costly button around? 'It's possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what's delightful about 'I'm Feeling Lucky' is that it reminds you there are real people here,' Google exec Marissa Mayer explained, or at least tried to."

Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Zeitgeist '07

Geoglyphs Around the World: a Google Earth Tour

Google Guide

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Google Cheat Sheet

Dangerous Google - Searching For Secrets

Hack Google for Hidden & Blocked Files

La ley de Murphy y otros colorarios

La ley de Murphy y otras razones porque las cosas salen mal

Google Logos throughout the years for special holidays and events

My Soul, and the 10 other things Google owns

Google Earth Flight Simulator

Google Earth Ad

THE GOOGLE CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE

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Google Privacy Rules - Google's explanation

Google talks about what information we collect when you use our search engine and the steps we've taken to protect it. In future videos, we'll talk about why Google keeps logs, what information we record when you're signed into a Google account and steps you can take to increase your privacy when surfing online.

Search engines and personal privacy - invading our space?

Big controversy over personal privacy using code on your computer to track search requests, and enable a personal profile to be built up. This means that search results and advertising can be targeted to the individual person using a web browser. Search engine cookies from engines like Google had been set in the past to remain active for more than a decade. Under pressure from the EU, Google recently announced that the two years of user history they keep would be reduced to 18 months. Expect pressure to continue for personal opt out boxes enabling search engine users to block personal data from being stored. Expect search engines to push back perhaps by only allowing the fullest search results for those who give personal data to be stored. As it is they will claim (correctly) that personal history is vital to make the results as relevant as possible. Expect big civil rights debates and worries about invasion of personal life by security agencies. Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon, futurist, leading authority on global trends and conference speaker.

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