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The answer to the question “Where are we going?” has never been so uncertain. That’s probably not true, what I just said—likely every generation walks that line of dread. Our generation, if we were to follow Dave Taylor, would end up where he did eventually—at some future crossroads equally uncertain—but we’d surely arrive there by different roads.

Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google’s server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on how you look at it) to be quickly crunched.

Search engines pay attention to some tags, and none to others. Remember when the 'keywords' meta tag mattered? Ah, the good old days.

It's not often Google publishes 1,200 words-worth of defense for making an acquisition. Though I'm not positive, I don't remember a time in the last two plus years. Maybe Microsoft's antitrust and sour-grapes opposition to Google's purchase of DoubleClick was enough incentive to get Google talking.

Engadget editor Ryan Block followed up on Wednesday's iPhone mix up with a long apology and explanation of how the popular tech blog received bogus information and why it was posted.