Thanks to Amanda for pointing me at the paper on the "Google File System", used by Google as a back-office distributed file system. If you are interested in such things at a technical level, this is a good description.

For those of you wondering about the effects of the DMCA on the availability of information on the Internet, consider the page from Chilling Effects about requests to remove content from Google. For those unfamiliar with Chilling Effects, it is a site dedicated to watching the DMCA and other mechanisms …

Google has a new advertising program called AdSense that provides automatically targeted advertising for web sites. The idea is simple, they use their searching technology to decide which ads make sense for your site and inserts them into the page (using the standard graphics advertising practice). If somebody clicks on …

An article in CNET reports that the lawsuit by rival search advertising seller SearchKing has been thrown out of court. The suit contended that Google had intentionally removed links from the sites that SearchKing is trying to draw traffic to and that this was somehow illegal. The court, however, found …

Contrary to the belief of our fine Ukrainian friend, Coca-Cola is actually NOT as well thought of as Apple. Apple took the number 2 spot behind Google in a poll of international brands. Coca-cola came in third, 2 percentage points behind Apple. If you want to read on, the article …