Just a word of warning, this is very likely going to turn into a rant. (But not the rant you may have expected)
If you follow tech blogs then you could hardly fail to have noticed the reaction the other day when Gmail went down for the total time period of about 1-2 hours.
The screenshot below [...]

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The page rank of a single page on a website can be identified through various means. Users can use the Google toolbar - or a similar product -, website scripts that check the page rank of that page and even page rank tools that do that. Most however do not offer the option to check [...]

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The new search engine Cuil got some huge press coverage in the last few days from the likes of Techcrunch and The Guardian which also proved to be a test for their server infrastructure. Many startups who go public with their website either get no visitors at all or so many that their servers cannot [...]

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Google released a new service today called Google Knol, a service aimed to take on Wikipedia and in my case will definitely beat it after a while, although there are some differences which I think will make both services live on.
While Wikipedia is strictly collaborative work, Google Knol is not necessarily. If you write [...]

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Everyone likes to bang on about how Google Docs is going to be the end of Microsoft Office, but people say that sort of thing all the time… 2008 is going to be the year of the desktop Linux apparently, or was that 2009?
Anyway I don’t actually mean to right off Google Docs, I use [...]

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