Understanding Google's File System (2020)(micahlerner.com)

128 points by tosh 2 years ago | 34 comments

20 years of Google Scholar(blog.google)

391 points by thepuppet33r 1 year ago | 171 comments

Google blog post marking Google Scholar's 20th anniversary with 20 facts about the academic search engine, written by its engineers Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya.

Pipe Syntax in SQL(research.google)

241 points by legrangramgroum 2 years ago | 167 comments

Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm(simonwillison.net)

140 points by wanderingmind 2 years ago | 74 comments

Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL(blog.vectorchord.ai)

54 points by gaocegege 1 year ago | 14 comments

On understanding data abstraction, revisited (2009) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)

22 points by fogus 3 years ago | 3 comments

20 years of Google Scholar(blog.google)

391 points by thepuppet33r 1 year ago | 171 comments

Google blog post marking Google Scholar's 20th anniversary with 20 facts about the academic search engine, written by its engineers Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya.

The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)(theatlantic.com)

456 points by lispybanana 2 years ago | 175 comments

A 2017 Atlantic article by James Somers about how Google scanned millions of books but its plan for a universal digital library was stalled by a failed copyright settlement.

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic(reuters.com)

356 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 338 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, published October 27, 2023.

Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why(journal.james-zhan.com)

381 points by nafnlj 10 months ago | 163 comments

A personal blog post by James Zhan describing how Google de-indexed his entire Bear Blog a month after he started it, with no apparent reason.

Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user(brutecat.com)

554 points by brutecat 1 year ago | 174 comments

A security researcher's write-up describing how to bruteforce the phone number linked to any Google account, with a terminal demo of the exploit tool.

US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)

402 points by dave1629 1 year ago | 862 comments

PDF of Y Combinator's amicus curiae brief supporting the plaintiffs in the US Department of Justice antitrust case against Google.