the below link is to devsgeds forthcomming newsletter which contains an article about G which IMHO is one of the best I've read recently. http://www.developershed.com/plugin/PIM_200411.pdf#page=19 amongst others it contains well founded speculations about what G may be up to and some great snipets of information like http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html this interview / article with Rop Pike is very readable entertaining and has lots of insights.... http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/10/18/1153211.shtml?tid=189&tid=156&tid=130&tid=11 M