Tag: Google
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Google “ Corkboard ” Server, 1999 | National Museum of American History
Currently on display in 1 WestIn 1998 Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google, a web-search company, in a garage in Menlo Park, California.To maximize searching at the lowest cost, Page and Brin built thirty racks of servers, including this one, from cheap parts. Each server row used corkboard insulating pads—hence…
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It began with a curiosity about why the ten most common verbs in the English language are irregular, even though the vast majority of verbs are regular. Their discovery, arrived at through data-mining several centuries’ worth of texts, amounts to a sort of linguistic natural selection: the more frequently an irregular verb is used, the…
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Duck duck, go…, a different type of search-engine, or is it?
What is DuckDuckgo? Duckduckgo is a search-engine I recently discovered, and have been playing with for the last couple of weeks. 🙂 Until recently, whenever I needed to find something. Or simply wanted to know something, of relevance to what I was reading about/looking at. I usually used to just “ google it ”, nowadays…
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Duck duck, go…, a different type of search engine. Or is it? View Post
Yet another fine blog…. 😅 