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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

The Borg - NYT June 8

"Google is like the Borg," said Milo Medin, a computer networking expert who was a founder of the 1990's online service @Home, referring to the robotic species on "Star Trek" that was forcibly assembled from millions of species and computer components. "I know of no other carrier or enterprise that distributes applications on top of their computing resource as effectively as Google."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html

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