Wikipedia vs. Google

April 22nd, 2007

What’s next on Google’s buyout radar? Lots of people discuss this stuff. I don’t follow the discussions at all, but one idea stands out as a an interesting proposition.

Wikipedia

There’s some discussion here in particular (that supports my argument):

“Google’s offered before, and Wikipedia has refused, and will continue to.” [blog.outer-court.com]

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inflection point in storage costs

February 15th, 2007

for the longest time, the 250GB drive was the cheapest per gigabyte at 25 or 26 cents per gigabyte, but in the last week, the 500GB SATA drives dropped to the lowest cost place at 23 cents per gigabyte. I’m still going with the 750GB drives (not shown) at 43 cents per gigabyte for my needs though. Cost of storage ($/GB) trend over time across various capacity drives