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minimax on May 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi

Initial versions of Google at Stanford ran on a mix of both Linux and Solaris.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

paulsutter on May 4, 2012 [–]

I'll bet you a dollar that Larry and Sergei never actually bought a Sun server to run the search engine, but rather that they may have used some free resource available to them at Stanford.

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