"Only one third of a search engine is devoted to fulfilling search requests. The other two thirds are divided between crawling (sending a host of single-minded digital organisms out to gather information) and indexing (building data structures from the results)." By George Dyson
The Google Maps JavaScript API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages. To use the API, you need to sign up for an API key, and then follow the instructions below.
NewsCloud is a site experiment that fetches news from Google News, tries to find tags related to each news and presents a tag cloud of the daily news. During the news process, there's no human intervention.
by William Slawski - "... I decided to take a closer look at some of the companies that Google has purchased. I’m glad I did. I came across a couple of papers I hadn’t seen before ..."
Tutorial Slides by Andrew Moore. The links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
Instead of using a piece of paper, your calculator, or a computer math software program, you can now solve mathematical problems with Google’s built-in calculator function.
Joshua Bloch about designing APIs and why it matters heavily for a the success of a company or a projects. Mostly common sense but useful if you get into a debate about it