There is this wonderfull place on the net called cybergeography.org . Take for example An Atlas of Cyberspaces - Cables and Satellites …

The magic that makes Google tick: ZDNet Australia: Insight: Software

# Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed.
# Up to 2,000 PCs in a cluster.
# Over 30 clusters.
# 104 interface languages including Klingon and Tagalog.
# One petabyte of data in a cluster — so much that hard disk error rates of 10-15 begin to be a real issue.
# Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster.
# An expectation that two machines will fail every day in each of the larger clusters.
# No complete system failure since February 2000.

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Google Sets Sights on Clustering, Translation
Google Inc. on Thursday gave a preview of its next steps to improve Web search, and clustering technology played a leading role.
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With word clustering, the focus is on making the search engine better at understanding the multiple meanings of a word, Norvig said. Google started working on word clustering about three years ago.
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other article:
As the major players in Web search duke it out, a growing number of startups are embracing a different way of retrieving and sorting search results.

Called clustering, the technology dynamically groups search results into categories as a way of solving one of the perennial problems of Web search: figuring out what the searcher is really looking for.

A new search engine named Clush this week plans to announce its arrival on the clustering scene. It follows the launch last week of a search site called Clusty from clustering-focused search company Vivisimo Inc.
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Rhizomatic.nl is een blog/portal met als bedoeling de studenten nieuwe media en andere geinteresseerden op de hoogte te houden van ontwikkelingen over nieuwe media in Amsterdam en in Nederland.
De mensen die rhizomatic hebben opgericht zijn allen (oud-)studenten nieuwe media. Ik ken ze via mijn prof(fen). Zij zullen ook projecten in het medialab doen en zullen helpen de opening te verzorgen. Alle geinteresseerden mogen natuurlijk hun bijdragen op de blog posten.

Wikibooks
- developing free, open content textbooks, manuals and other texts. Currently have over 120 textbooks in various stages of development.

Wikisource is a repository of source texts in any language which are either in the public domain, or are released under the GFDL. Something like project gutenberg. They don’t have as much as gutenberg, … yet.

disinfopedia - describes itself as a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.

dkosopedia - a collaborative project of the DailyKos community to build a political encyclopedia.

PESWiki.com - specializing in ‘free energy’ technology, using wikimedia to build encyclopedia, news, open sourcing technology, events, PAC, academy, library and more.

unilang.org - languages, linguistics, and language acquisition

wikitravel.org - a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.

A list of search engines for blogs: (more…)

Artificial Intelligence Depot

The Artificial Intelligence Depot is a site purely dedicated to AI bringing you daily news and regular features, providing you with community interaction as well as an ever growing database of knowledge resources. Whether you are a complete beginner, experienced programmer, computer games hacker or academic researcher, you will find something to suit your needs here.

Artificial Intelligence Top Links

meta site with LOADS of links in all different disciplines

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handige pagina met oa overzicht van studieverenigingen en binnenlandse en buitenlands opleidingen van ai

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