Google's bold moves

There are many comments around Google lately: Android, 700 MHz radio band auction, Open Social API, Moon challenge. These are things so much bigger, that can make a stronger impact on our life than the buzz around Google docs from some time ago, was that only because it targets Office? And because Office brings a lot of money to Microsoft? Most probably.

But the latest stuff around Google, are bold moves into wild new territory, the kind of moves it made Google what it is today. Will these moves break Google? If not, it will make it bigger and more powerful than ever. Is there such a "Plan behind Google" as my friend Mihai Budiu very well put it into his article.

Google for Developers

There is a very interesting series of lectures on YouTube from Google developers, it's called Cluster Computing and MapReduce. It starts with general parallelism and distributed computing concepts but gets by the second lecture into the intricacies of Google system and even a hint of algorithms. This is very strange since Google is very closed in general but especially when it comes to its in house implementation. If this isn't just a mistake, kudos to Google for sharing these lectures with all of us, mere mortals.