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04/26/2004: "Google drew Strength from Weakness"

Want to see the world's most powerful computer network? Go ogle Google. (Yes, I do amuse myself.)

Dr. Cowen links an article.

To paraphrase, google started with a bunch of used Stanford computers. They were slow and unreliable, so Google's founders had to program them to seamlessly overcome hardware failures. They retain that approach today, even with all their success and 100,000+ servers.

Not bad for a spell checker.