SuperMachine: GOOGLE

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The Web As Platform
"Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer. It's running their own cluster operating system. They make their big computer even bigger and faster each month, while lowering the cost of CPU cycles. It's looking more like a general purpose platform than a cluster optimized for a single application.

While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming.

This computer is running the world's top search engine, a social networking service, a shopping price comparison engine, a new email service, and a local search/yellow pages engine. What will they do next with the world's biggest computer and most advanced operating system?"

GooOS, the Google Operating System
http://www.kottke.org/04/04/google-operating-system

The Secret Source of Google's Power
http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html

Google’s supercomputer
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/07/19OPstrategic_1.html

August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web
http://www.ftrain.com/google_takes_all.html

How Google Will Have Achieved The Semantic Web
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/01/2058206.shtml?tid=217&tid=133&tid=95

The next generation of Web search
http://divedi.blogspot.com/2004/03/next-generation-of-web-search-next.html

Googlemania
http://wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html

How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/69/google.html

The Web As Platform
http://battellemedia.com/archives/cat_the_web_as_platform.php

Google's Next Steps or Google in 2010
http://divedi.blogspot.com/2004/07/googles-next-steps-or-google-in-2010.html

What Should Yahoo! Do?
http://www.clickz.com/experts/brand/buzz/article.php/3378621