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Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power

THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, 
Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next 
generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when 
it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin 
cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky.

The complex, sprawling like an information-age factory, heralds a 
substantial expansion of a worldwide computing network handling billions 
of search queries a day and a growing repertory of other Internet services.

And odd as it may seem, the barren desert land surrounding the Columbia 
along the Oregon-Washington border — at the intersection of cheap 
electricity and readily accessible data networking — is the backdrop for 
a multibillion-dollar face-off among Google, Microsoft and Yahoo that 
will determine dominance in the online world in the years ahead.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?_r=1&oref=slogin