The Ultimate Guide to Google Services: A fantastic guide to everything that Google is doing on the Web these days. I didn’t know they had their hands in so much stuff.
Jeff Dean keynote at WSDM 2009: A Google engineer gave a talk at a conference where he revealed some crazy stats about Google’s architecture: Google now detects many web page changes nearly immediately, computes an approximation of the static rank of that page, and rolls out an index update.…
Google Tests Site Favicons in Select Search Results: Interesting. Google has confirmed reports that it is testing the use of favicons in search results for select users. […] At present, favicons in search results will only appear when a user conducts a “site: command search.” The…
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches: here is your guilt trip of the day. Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research. While…