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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 [...]

A comparison of Yahoo and Google through the years. Spot which PWNs which.

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Apparently, the Chinese are having a hard time remembering to spell “Google.com”, so Google took great pains just to accommodate them by purchasing “G.cn.” See, Google can really be nice when there’s a billion of you.
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Google is sponsoring the Lunar X-PRIZE, which gives a total of $30 million to teams who will be able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon.
Why does Google love space? Well, for one thing, we just think it’s cool. More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs, from ablative [...]

Dark versions of the search engine Borg aren’t kicking it as far as greeness goes, coming straight from the horse’s mouth.
We applaud the spirit of the idea, but our own analysis as well as that of others shows that making the Google homepage black will not reduce energy consumption. To the contrary, on flat-panel monitors [...]

The other day, Google’s own Google Custom Search blog was temporarily pwnd by some other user because Google had incorrectly identified their own blog as spam and efficiently deleted it. Not even the amusingly apologetic, “Whoops! We accidentally classified ourselves as spam” from Google was enough to dull the realization that this fuck up can [...]