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We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even […]

In September, Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy on television, will unveil a carefully guarded new project called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.” Unlike Family Guy, which is broadcast on Fox, this animation series will appear exclusively on the Internet.
The innovative part involves the distribution plan. Google will syndicate the program using its AdSense […]

Made in Russia. No cooties.
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{Also: Gmail hearts Russia}

The lengths Google would go to for its Gmail campaign in Russia.

Google seems to have been causing some bit of excitement at the Davos Conference in Switzerland: its planned major Asian data center is sending off Asian heads of state’s knickers in a twist.
The Prime Minister of Malaysia has announced that Google (GOOG) is interested in building a data center in Malaysia. The announcement comes just […]

As Google posted the official SDK and documentation for its new Android mobile OS, it also cleverly dangles over $10 million in no-strings-attached money before the eyes of anyone who will develop Android apps. So if you’re interested in participating in the “Google Gold Rush,” here’s where you wanna be.
And because we know you live […]

In November 2006, Google proudly released a paper called “Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data,” which mentioned in passing that Google has a web index of 1,085 terabytes. But the thing is, there’s a big-ass paper from the Berkeley’s School of Information Management Systems that sort of implies that an equivalent of 10,000,000 […]

You got all wet and excited over the Google Phone, yet it turns out it’s not actually a phone but a mobile phone OS called Android. Basically, the wisdom behind it is to allow Google to distribute its mobile apps to as many devices as possible, so in the future it can control you right […]