Pakcik Google

Final xm dah dekat. Bukan dekat pun lagi. Depan mata dah. Semua orang sibuk hantar mesej kat YM minta maaf, halalkan makan minum, semoga mendapat tuah yang baik...banyak,banyak...! Aku tak boleh baca mesej serupa itu. Rasa seram sejuk. Rasa nak demam. Takut. Rasa nak tidur.

Tp dalam sibuk-sibuk takutkan xm ni, aku sempat lagi berangan. Nak kerja kat Google. Mesti korang pernah pakai google kan? Hmm...sebenarnya untuk hasilkan enjin pencari seperti google memerlukan ramai tenaga pakar dalam bidang sains komputer.

www.google.com

"..Google is an engineering company. The Google web site is powered by some amazing technology, most of it developed in-house.To implement a good search algorithm on the scale of the web requires ideas from just about every area of computer science, including information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on.Who did all this? A dedicated and growing team of smart, creative programmers and computer scientists -- but we just call them engineers. They come to Google with expertise in a large range of topics. And before they joined Google, some of them also built software, hardware, tools and other technology you might have used..."

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"...Not all the engineers have done such public work, of course, and their backgrounds vary enormously. Some started at Google right after college; others came after spending time in academia or industry. Some love thinking long and hard about difficult problems; others just enjoy getting their hands dirty building and deploying massive, real-world systems. What they all share, though, is an enthusiasm for the challenge of making the world a better place through the intelligent application of information technology. It's a blast...."

Google dan kod sumber
Baru-baru ini Google release source code utk sesiapa yg ingin membantu dalam pembangunan google. Berminat, boleh singgah di code.google.com

"...You may have heard about 20% time, in which Google engineers are encouraged to work on a personal project one day out of the week. Open Source interests a lot of Google developers, so we thought taking advantage of this program was a good way to prepare code for release and maintenance..."

Tayangan video ,Google: behind the scene.
Diterbitkan oleh University of Washington Television. Klik sini utk tayangan dan sini untuk download. Tukang cakap dan penyampai adalah Jeff Dean, distinguished engineer daripada Google's Systems Lab

"...Search is one of the most important applications used on the internet and poses some of the most interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of computer science disciplines. In this program, Jeff Dean of Google describes some of these challenges, discusses applications Google has developed, and highlights systems they've built, including GFS, a large-scale distributed file system, and MapReduce, a library for automatic parallelization and distribution of large-scale computation. He also shares some interesting observations derived from Google's web data...."