On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 11:49, Phil Payne wrote: > > We've discussed Google here before: would anyone notice if a few Google > > servers went missing for a while? Seems to me, probably not, and > > according to some in the discussion that is on low-cost hardware. > > Google is VERY interesting. > > It is highly inconsistent and extremely erratic - yet few notice and no one cares.
Some of that is intentional. Google filters search results based on your assumed location and a few other parameters it uses to guess stuff. There are some very interesting studies of google censorship.
