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Google came with a brilliant idea to move the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search

engines on barges anchored up to 11km offshore.

The “water-based data centers” would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google’s costs. Their offshore status would also mean the company would no longer have to pay property taxes on its data centers.

Google writes: “Computing centers are located on a ship or ships, anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away.”

Concerns have been raised about whether the barges could withstand an event such as a hurricane.

from Times

Google has recently launched a new service which is in beta version: blog searching.
I believe it is such a great asset. Especially as a blogger and a researcher I have to read a lot about different services and web functionalities and where I could better find the information if not on blogs. Great tool for me and lots of others like me! Well Google, you must have read my mind!

I especially enjoy the fact that you can order the posts by publishing date, which is truly important because I always find relevant and interesting information and then I realize that it is from a couple of years ago.

Does having a good system administrator payoff? Well in this case it does!! )

We all have seen how the new Antena 3 website will look like due to a really small s

ecurity breach.

The new layout looks like this and here and here are the comments from the agency which has done the project.

Thanks Ruschi for the info.

I’m back!!! Well I’ve been on holiday and after weeks of being offline I have finally took the time to post.

When I was away nice things have happened. Like the launch of a new search engine name coil.com (it is pronounced cool – how cool is that?!?:) ). The engine is run by former Google employees, who want to challenge the search engine giant with results based on content, not inbound links. The idea of grouping the content together under a tab with a nice thumbnail is following a current trend in refining information retrieval and the ease with which a unqualified person can find the appropriate information in a pool of billions of results.

The new search engine claims to have the biggest search engine database of content and announced with pride that they avoided the so claimed Google PageRank, which can be a subject to search engine spam through inbound link manipulation schemes.

We’ll have to see whether it will have the same success as google has and maybe some day we won’t say google it, but instead well say “cool it”!

Great news for all the old Diablo fans. Last night the coming of the new Diablo III was announced. They have been working for 4 years and they still have lots to do. Till now they just did 2 sets of characters: the barbarians and the witchdoctors. The are some game previews and the cinematic movie which you can see on blizzard.com.