Technical reading

I don't usually read tech blogs, mainly because I don't understand a lot of what they're talking about but after reading this article on Google's new desktop search (which sounds useful, and will be even more so when it supports Firefox and other file formats) I followed some of the links and found this post speculating about how Google may be developing an operating system (though not necessarily in way we currently understand an OS to be) which was inspired by this post about how Google works including the astonishing (to me, anyway) information that Google currently sues uses around 100,000 servers - by way of comparison, I was reading Daily Kos the other day and Markos was saying he'd had to buy a fifth server to deal with their traffic of around 500,000 visitors a day. When you realise just how mind-bogglingly huge an operation something like Google it's somewhere between awe-inspiring and slightly scary.

Edit: Corrected a typo just in case anyone thinks I'm alleging Google unleashes the lawyers on 100,000 people a day (thanks to Dave for the spot)