Is GOOGLE on Steroids?

Barely a year ago a young software programmer at Google, Christophe Bisciglia, came up with an idea: He would teach Google programming at the University of Washington. This would soon hatch a major initiative at the company and a joint venture with IBM.

Now, Google, which has the fastest computing network on earth for sifting through data, will let others tap the power of its machinery.

The other search engines are joining the rush to what is called "cloud computing." It positions Google, along with the other Net powers, at the computing crossroads of science and business.

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