Alphabet - From A to Z
“Let me Google that” became a fundamental phrase in our daily life. But Google is much more than only a search engine. In fact, so much more that a new company was founded: Alphabet, of which Google is only a part of. This next-gen Alphabet embraces a lot of different cool technologies, products and projects. Come and join us on a tour through the breath-taking landscape of Alphabet.
Talk at first Google Developer Group Brunch 2015
Together with Benjamin Raethlein
15. 3.5 billion searches per day
http://searchengineland.com/google-1-trillion-searches-per-year-212940
It was a rare sighting of a queries-per-day figure presumably from Google, which had
search executives quoted extensively in the story
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Each query uses 1.000 computers to return in 0.2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modXC5IWTJI
That means for over three years now, Google has been claiming exactly the same amount of searches per month. That’s
incredibly unlikely. More likely is that growth has grown to some degree.
Average search travels 2.500 km
http://readwrite.com/2012/02/29/interview_changing_engines_mid-flight_qa_with_goog
We fetch tens to hundreds of billions of pages. When I first got here [in 1999], it was about 50 million pages, and that
was the biggest index then. It's hard to imagine, but it's three orders of magnitude bigger today
2012: Crawling 50m pages in under a minute
http://readwrite.com/2012/02/29/interview_changing_engines_mid-flight_qa_with_goog
Last week, I talked to Google Search lead designer Jon Wiley about the process of designing Google's iconic
interface. What goes on behind that white box?
38. angoT
Announced 2014
Depth Perception, Motion Tracking, Area Learning
Pure research project with first devices
Ex-Microsoft Kinect Engineer is responsible