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George R [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, April 12, 2008
6 months ago878 views

Data Center Knowledge has a story titled "Google Data Center FAQ" with information and speculation about Google's data centers.

datacenterknowledge.com/archiv ...

Pingdom has also produced some illustrations including maps and photos.

royal.pingdom.com/?p=276
wayfaring.com/maps/show/48030

This is also covered at The Register.

theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/g ...

[Made requested spelling correction – Colin]

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

6 months ago #

This was talked about at TechCrunch today too.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

6 months ago #

I'm not sure there is a DC in Paris.

Above 3 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,
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imma [PersonRank 1]

6 months ago #

loved that description of the web :-D
thankyou
- imma

beussery [PersonRank 10]

6 months ago #

In all fairness, Google provides a little more information than the article gives them credit for:
google.com/search?q=inurl:goog ...

In terms of Atlanta, GA there is one data center and it is located SW of the city. The second Google location in the Atlanta metro is their sales office.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

5 months ago #

More Googley stuff from Pingdom:

<< Google domain names – the funny, strange and surprising
April 23, 2008

Google owns a whole bunch of domain names other than the obvious ones like google.com, blogger.com and gmail.com. We here at Pingdom decided to find out which ones, with some truly surprising results. >>

royal.pingdom.com/?p=280

Via: techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/want ...

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

5 months ago #

Many of them haven't been purchased by Google, but by other people. Google is a trademark, so Mountain View's firm have get back several domains, after complaints.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

5 months ago #

Yeah, Pingdom pretty much say that in the post. Although many other sites are misleading linking to them saying they've got a list of domains that Google actually owns.

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