interesting article

[paisleychick]

Opinionpiece and guesses on how Google's going to take over the net, no really. WalMart has such a negative connotation, I don't know that it's fair to compare the two, but there it is. The Internet Archive designed the Petabox to be stored in shipping containers. That exact part never got followed through. However, there are rows of these

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[tedesson]

I watched Cringley's interview with Brewster on NerdTV, and I recall them talking about the petabyte array. But I don't recall them mentioning the color. I bet the 'red' confused Cringley into thinking it was different than the Archive.org box.

You should invite Cringley over for a tour/opportunity for correction.

And, by the way, the interviews on NerdTV have been fun to watch, even though Cringely is likely the most appropriately named interviewer in the world, for his interviews are truely Cringe-worthy.

It must be so cool to be working at Archive.org.

this guy thinks he's more clever than he is.

[jrtom]

This article reads very much like his attitude is "I get paid to make provocative prognostications--not to be right." Facility

By his own admission, he doesn't really know what it is that Google is doing; this is all speculation--but he phrases it as if it were fact. Plus I think the connection between Google and Wal-Mart is weak at best.

More fundamentally, I don't personally get the impression, based on the products and services that they've released--and on their job interviews, for that matter--that Google would really be that interested in providing processing and storage services, per se. They want to make it easier for people to find stuff. This often requires processing and storage, but they don't seem interested in these for themselves, but for how they can promote their primary mission of search.

(I'd be interested in hearing what the actual Google employees would have to say on this...although they probably can't say much.) But this article just leaves me thoroughly unconvinced.

Re: this guy thinks he's more clever than he is.

[jrtom]

(That second sentence should have been something like "Facility over substance.")