"A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif." MV_Map (LJ)

"To search our collection of 3 billion documents by hand,
  - it would take 5,707 years,
  - searching twenty-four hours per day,
  - at one minute per document.
  - With Google, it takes less than a second."

"Google Image Search: Comprising more than 330 million images,"

See the latest Google Smarts: "The Google Labs"

See the full original at: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/3billion.html
FNF:  ALŢINGI http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/ltal01.htm   2002-1-24   (C) 2001-2002 Jón Erlendsson


Google gives interns exposure to everything from the development of cutting-edge algorithms to implementation of large-scale system code for our production cluster (one of the largest Linux clusters in the world, with over 10,000 Linux machines).   "
http://www.google.com/jobs/internship.html    (GO_Cluster)