Living with Google...

[sbisson]

...is like breathing. You can't survive online without it. Installing the Google toolbar is the first thing you do when you set up a Windows PC with IE. Or at least tweaking Mozilla so it uses Google as its default search engine.

And this is why:

I found an amazing quote on evan's LJ, from a lecture by Google's Urs Hölzle:

"Google gets 1,000 hits per second...
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...at 2am...
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...on December 25th."