A interesting Conversation Between Dave Patterson and Jim Gray, by way of Tim Bray at ongoing, about storage and why you should ship terabytes by UPS. It's been clear for some time (see Michael Lesk's work) that we can store vastly more information than we know how to use, and retrieval will be the key problem of this century.
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An interesting post from Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocNewsGoogle about the non-English coverage of Google vs AllTheWeb. The conclusion is that AllTheWeb may be a better bet for non-English data. Another interesting factoid: there are 160M pages in Google that contain the word "copyright" but don't register according to any language filter (including English).
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