Oakland Tribune: Google Eyes Net Operating System

“The closely held search-engine company has been clear all along
about its goal of organizing the world’s information. But followers
of the Mountain View upstart have been seeing that lofty mission
statement in a new light since the company unveiled plans this
month for a free e-mail service with enough storage space to save
nearly 500,000 pages of messages.

“The Gmail service, combined with Google’s enormous cluster of
computers that use Linux, a free operating system, to process
hundreds of millions of search queries each day, has some
technologists panting over what the ambitious company may do
next…”

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