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Here are web resources to help you on your quest in getting current about the impending technology that's already being adopted by major web browsers and leveraged in large sites such as Google.

<p>NOTE: I am totally plagiarizing here, but below facts are too cool to have it disappear on the net.</p> <h3>The Hardware set up of Google search Engine in 1997</h3> <p>Back in early 1997, the entire search engine and website ran on the following hardware setup:</p> <ol> <li>1.Sun Ultra II with Dual 200 Mhz and only 256 Mb of RAM.The original project (called Backrub ) ran on this machine.</li> <li>2.Intel donated 2 x 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers&nbsp; with 512MB of RAM and 9 x 9GB hard drives between the two. The main search ran on these.</li> <li>3.IBM donated RS/6000&nbsp; with 4 processors, 512MB of RAM and 8 x 9GB hard drives.</li> <li>4.The original Storage of Backrub contained two additional boxes.This contained 3 x 9GB hard drives and 6 x 4GB hard drives respectively</li> <li>5.IBM further donated disk expansion box with another 8 x 9GB hard drives.</li> <li>6.A home made Disk was also Used which contained 10 x 9GB SCSI hard drives.</li> <li>The original Google platform was written in java and Python and ran on the hardware as shown in the following presentation</li> </ol>

Working at Google Q&A; on Reddit.

<p>And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQTouch" target="_blank">it</a> works for android too. Competitor to jQTouch are:</p> <ul> <li>iWebkit (beware when searching on iwebkit using google)</li> <li>and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/iui/" target="_blank">iUI</a>.</li> </ul>

<p>The link is the first part of 9 series:</p> <p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"> </span></p> <ul> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/252125/">Part 2</a>&nbsp;: CPU caches</li> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/253361/">Part 3</a>&nbsp;: Virtual memory</li> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/254445/">Part 4</a>&nbsp;: NUMA systems</li> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/255364/">Part 5</a>&nbsp;: What programmers can do - cache optimization</li> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/256433/">Part 6</a>&nbsp;: What programmers can do - multi-threaded optimizations</li> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/257209/">Part 7</a>&nbsp;: Memory performance tools</li> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="../../../Articles/258154/">Part 8</a>&nbsp;: Future technologies</li> <li><a style="text-decoration: none; color: blue;" href="../../../Articles/258188/">Part 9</a>&nbsp;: Appendices and bibliography</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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<p>BumpTop has blown me away when I first saw it at TedTalk 2007. I'm glad that Google bought them.</p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/6jhoWsHwU7w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6jhoWsHwU7w"></param> </object> </p>

Google acquired Picnik

<p>Russ Cox, one of the developer of Google Code, published a series of papers about regular expression and its use in Google Code.</p> <p>The papers also explain why he ended up creating his own regular expression (RE2) as opposed to using PCRE. In short, PCRE uses backtracking algorithm, thus making it prone to exponential search time.</p> <p>You can read the papers here: <a href="http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html" target="_blank">First</a>, <a href="http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html" target="_blank">second</a>, and <a href="http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html" target="_blank">third</a>.</p> <p>Also, check out the RE2 project <a href="http://code.google.com/p/re2/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>