Thursday, February 9th, 2012
By Keith Griffiths
As a geek of the highest calibre (I completed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in under two days – need I say more), I cannot imagine life withought IT, email, and search engines such as Google. Life would be a strange place. What on earth would I do all day? Venture outside? You must be joking.
In 2010, even the ordinary person’s life is devoured by technology. We use the Internet to buy everything from food to family holidays. We do business online. We even use it to find love. It’s as integral to our lives as having food to eat and a place to stay.
Nowadays Google dominates the online world of the search engines – and indeed the Internet. Most people use Google to search for keywords or in some other form: Google Mail, Maps, Analytics, News, Images … making it hard for the smaller, more aged search engines such as Yahoo to keep up.
The power of the beast is mind blowing. Google search is not just on a server in an office. It is a vast amount of servers connected to a large data center on the back end of a huge network, called the backbone, which covers the whole world. There are 30 data centres in the UK alone. Mind googling! Or should that be boggling?
Fellow geeks, this tour of Google’s first container based data center will be right up your street:
Keith Griffiths is wowdewow’s Director of Internet Services and SEO. You can email him on keith@wowdewow.com
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Tags: 2010, Google, search engines
Hi Kieth, nice article. It’s amazing the technology behind Google’s empire. I actually heard that performing one Google search uses the same amount of energy energy as boiling a cup of water.
On a side note, I love Modern Warfare 2. You can email me with your PSN ID and get a game online with me and my clan if you like.
Hey can I reference some of the information found in this entry if I link back to you?
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