Football Field Sized Data Centers - Google

Just read an article about Googles new data complex. It's the size of two football fields and has twin cooling plants four stories high. Not bad when you're starting to take over the world.

It's speculated that Google has around 450,000 data centers spread around 25 countries - holy cow. That's a lot muscle.

You can read the article here.

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Been a lot of talk about the ranking changes that seem to correlate with Big Daddy. Matt Cutts covered a lot of the changes in his blog. Good read. I myself haven't noticed any tragic drops in ranking. Rankings change - period. I don't think I'm going to point my finger at Big Daddy but rather point my finger at they dynamic, ever changing index of Google. It'll never be static, you can't always be #1.

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Google released an online spreadsheet ap that looks really cool. You have to sign up to try it out.

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I've added a lot of new articles, blog posts and other tid bits releated to the SEO industry. While you're there, you might as well visit my collection of SEO tools too.

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Other new things Google is rolling out (or has already):

GBUY - competition for PayPal

Google Calendar - as with all Google products, it's very slim and featureless... but will do the job.

Google Notebook - I haven't tried this one out and I have to admit I'm getting a bit creeped out by it all. I do my accounting with a spredsheet, mark my appointments (both for myself and my family) in calendars and take notes via notepad on my system. Just how much does Google need to know about me??

Google Trends - this is very cool, I could waste hours (and have) here.

Google Finances

They cannot be stopped!