Something special for Google's 7th birthday...

Google opened its doors in September 1998, and we’ve been pursuing one mission ever since: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our original index.

I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished in the years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up the first Google data center in Larry’s dorm room at Stanford. Today, along with web search based on Larry and Sergey’s original BackRub search engine, we offer specialized search for everything from satellite images to academic papers, local business info to your own computer. We’ve also built software for email and mobile services, photo management and computer-to-computer voice calling, to name just a few things.

But search remains our heart and soul, so I’m especially pleased by this latest expansion of our index, which makes Google more than 3 times larger than any other search engine. See for yourself how effective the new Google search index can be. Come up with a search query that's special to you (your name, your elementary school, and your favorite animal, for example) - a combination of words that is likely to exist on just a few web pages out of the billions we've indexed, a few needles scattered in the Internet’s endless haystack.

Hawking's Photos: Stephen Hawking and his wheel chair

Cosmological Star.... Admirable person

The British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (1942-) has devoted much of his life to probing the space-time described by general relativity and the singularities where it breaks down. And he’s done most of this work while confined to a wheelchair, brought on by the progressive neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a post once held by Isaac Newton. In the late 1960s, Hawking proved that if general relativity is true and the universe is expanding, a singularity must have occurred at the birth of the universe. In 1974 he first recognized a truly remarkable property of black holes, objects from which nothing was supposed to be able to escape. By taking into account quantum mechanics, he was able to show that black holes can radiate energy as particles are created in their vicinity. But perhaps his most impressive feat was writing the international bestseller A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME. The book spent more than four years on the London Sunday Times bestseller list—the longest run for any book in history.

New Google search engine boosts 'Blogging'

A new Google Inc. specialty search engine sifts through the Internet's millions of frequently updated personal journals, a long-anticipated development expected to help propel "blogging" into the cultural mainstream.

The new tool, unveiled at http://blogsearch.google.com, focuses exclusively on the material contained in the journals known as Web logs, or "blogs."

Mountain View-based Google, the Internet's general search engine leader, first set its sights on blogs with its 2003 acquisition of a small startup called Blogger that makes software to publish and manage the journals.

Since that deal, Google had been expected to build a blogging-focused search engine — a mission finally accomplished by a group of by developers in the company's New York office.

Nice Quotes

Aim above the mark to hit the mark

If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.
---- Robert Kaplan, The nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero.

A computer with as many vaccum tubes as a man has n;eu;rans in his head would require the Pentagon to house it, Niagara's power to run it, and Niagara's water to cool it
---- Warren S.McCulloch, 1956.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment
---- Philippe Muller

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent,
doing what is imposible for talent is genius.
---- Henri-Frederic Amiel.

A man not thinking for himself isn't thinking at all.

---- Oscar Wilde

It is sad that the fools are so self-confident and
the clever ones are full of doubts.

---- Bertrand Russell

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
---- James Thurber

3 days of meaningful life is far better than 100 years of meaningless existence
---- Amithb (in Amrithadhare)

Trouble shared is trouble halved--joy shared is joy doubled.

We should know something of everything and everything of something.

Humiliating failures are potential steps to success.

Nothing is easy and whatever is easy its nothing....

Leaders don't go thru life, they grow thru life.

Rain drop falling from the sky has nothing in mind except to hit the earth. No matter how tough the drop is, it still reaches its destiny!

First post

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