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David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo is in London today at the start of Open Hack Day, an event to encourage developers to build applications based on the company’s platform.
Speaking to Computer Weekly prior to the start of Open Hack Day, Filo, said, “Most of the [internet] applications we see today will become more social.” He said Yahoo’s Flickr, which is built around photo sharing, is an example of a web service that is very social. “Other services like search are not very social. But this will change.
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The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Click to see the equipment in its laboratory setting on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.

