Practical Technology

Jeff Dean, a Google Fellow who has been with the company since 1999, gave a speech at the Web Search and Data Mining meeting in 2009 where he unveiled how Google puts together its data centers (PDF). Because the meeting was in Barcelona, Spain, his speech didn’t receive the attention it deserved in the United [...]

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We all use Google. Well, maybe not Bill Gates, but that’s about it. Now, Google is hoping to become an even bigger part of our everyday lives. The key to this is Google’s three new search features: real-time search, location-based service and augmented reality. Think about it: Google has primarily been about computer-based search. You [...]

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I like Google a lot. I couldn’t live without it. Heck, I even found a way to find flu vaccines on it the other day. But, that doesn’t mean I trust its results unconditionally. That’s a good thing. Cyber security research firm, Cyveillance has discovered that more than 200,000 Web sites have been infected with [...]

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“Brains! Must have Yahoo advertising brains!” That might have been Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s call as he finally made a deal for Yahoo. Sure, it looks like Yahoo still exists as an independent company, but in reality, Ballmer’s bite has turned it into a Microsoft zombie. Yahoo has agreed to let is search engine brain, [...]

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What started as a normal weekend morning for Internet users turned into a paranoid panic when the Google search engine started reporting that every site – and we mean every site – was contaminated with malware. To quote my friend Bob, who woke me up this morning at 7 AM with the news, “What the [...]

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