Google: Scale changes everything
Forbes digs into what it means to organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful - and the enormous engineering challenges that brings. Whether it's searches per day or miles driven using Google Navigation, read about how we operate at a scale the world has never seen.
Read more about Google's scale at forbes.com
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