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The technology behind Google

I am sure you already know about Google Labs, but if you are into technology you have to have a check out the papers written by Googlers. There is something for everyone:

• Algorithms and Theory (33)


• Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (21)


• Audio, Video, and Image Processing (18)


• Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing (47)


• Human-Computer Interaction (9)


• Hypertext and the Web (11)


• Information Retrieval (22)


• Machine Learning (38)


• Natural Language Processing (20)


• Science (7)


• Security, Cryptography, and Privacy (12)


• Software Engineering (10)

I recently read and learned a lot from these papers:

• Google File System: how Google stores peta byte upon peta byte of data in a redundant and distributed system 


• BigTable: Distributed storage of structured data


• MapReduce If you think multi threaded programming is hard, you should try parallel computing

It is a shame that Microsoft does not have something similar at labs.live.com