Google: it's Technology, Philosophy and Future

Google has always fascinated me; always I found it unique & amazing, so I thought to write about its Philosophy, Technology & its Future.
Happy Reading……


Google’s search Technology:

Google is the perfect search engine, its search technology has been evolved up to the best & I hope it will get even better once it includes searching other things, we can only dream about. Google’s search technology depend on following two factors-
* PageRank Technology
* Hypertext-Matching Analysis

The software behind Google's search technology conducts a series of simultaneous calculations requiring only a fraction of a second. Traditional search engines rely heavily on how often a word appears on a web page. Google uses numerous factors including its patented PageRank™ algorithm to examine the entire link structure of the web and determine which pages are most important. It then conducts hypertext-matching analysis to determine which pages are relevant to the specific search being conducted. By combining overall importance and query-specific relevance, Google is able to put the most relevant and reliable results first.

Life of a Google Query:



Future of Google:

Google's innovations don't stop at the desktop. To bring its accurate and speedy search results to users accessing the web through portable devices, Google also pioneered the first wireless search technology for on-the-fly translation of HTML to formats optimized for WAP, i-mode, J-SKY, and EZWeb. Currently, Google provides its wireless technology to numerous market leaders, including AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS, Nextel, Palm, Handspring, and Vodafone, among others.


Google’s Philosophy:

Google, from its inception works on ten things it found to be true & that is one of the reason I like Google so much.


* Focus on the user and all else will follow.
* It's best to do one thing really, really well.
* Fast is better than slow.
* Democracy on the web works.
* You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer.
* You can make money without doing evil.
* There's always more information out there.
* The need for information crosses all borders.
* You can be serious without a suit.
* Great just isn't good enough.

You can find all these in details here-
http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

Command to detect your IP address!

IP address (Internet Protocol) is a numerical identification to detect your computer on a network. It is used to communicate between nodes on a computer network.
Find below the commands to execute and provide your IP address.


Command for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista

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Go to “Menu Start” and select “Run”. Then, type the following command:

cmd /k ipconfig /all


Your IP address will be displayed in an open window after a few seconds.

Command for Linux

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Type this command in the root:

ifconfig

Creating an Hotmail shortcut on your desktop

Accessing your mailbox on Hotmail is time consuming; you can either add Hotmail.com to your Favorites or access it via instant messaging applications.

The quickest method to access your mailbox and read directly your message is definitely to create a shortcut on your desktop.

Proceed as follow:

Right click on your desktop and select New and the Shortcut options.

In the Create Shortcut window, that appear type in the command below:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\hmmapi.dll",OpenInboxHandler




Click on the Next button.


Type in the name the shortcut (e.g. Hotmail instant access) and click on Next. Your new shortcut should be on your desktop and ready to use.




Note: if you want modify the icon associated to this shortcut, just right click on the shortcut, select the Change Icon option, select the icon you want to use and click on Ok.

NTFS uses more disk space than FAT

Microsoft invented both NTFS and FAT file system
FAT is inherited from MS-DOS and Windows 95/98, while NTFS is inherited from Windows NT4. NTFS is the file system default Windows XP and Vista.


Myth:

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People tend to think that NTFS uses more disk space than FAT.

Reality:Reality:

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False NTFS does not occupy or use more disk space than FAT.


Explanation:

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NTFS:
It is faster than FAT.
It is more secure than FAT (less risk of corruption)
has more features (support for international characters, security settings, auditing, compression, encryption, management of very large files).
NTFS is also more efficient: It manages more free space than FAT, and better optimizes the management of many files.

Just try it:

Take two equally sized partitions, format one in NTFS and the other one FAT and copy files over and verify the size occupied on disk.

E.g. Copying files Active Perl (3972 files, total 66.7 MB) on a 300 MB disk

These files occupy 76 607 488 bytes on a FAT drive.
These files occupy 67 628 032 bytes on a NTFS drive.

If we look at the free disk space 300 MB after copies of files:

238 051 840 bytes free on the NTFS drive.
235 298 816 bytes free on the FAT drive.

Conclusion:
Its recommended that you make use of NTFS than FAT if you really care about optimizing disk space.

Formatting your drive with Fat32

Windows XP normally refuse to format a partition higher than 40 GB with FAT32. however this operation performs properly with NTFS


The solution for this issue is to boot your installation CD and use the Console Recovery by pressing the key “r”. Once the safe mode show C:\> type the following command :

format x: /fs:fat32

Replace the letter x by the partition that you are actually formatting , e.g . partition D:.
Important Notice : Formatting from FAT32 is refused whenever the we type cmd in the run. Another important information is thaty. administrator password is required for formatting under console recovery. If you have forgotten your administrator password, the only solution is to format using a software which enable you to format in FAT32 , e.g , FAT32FORMAT.