KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

Google is teaming since september 2007 with the X Prize foundation to launch a commercial race to the Moon with a $30 million incentive.  To win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a team must successfully land a privately funded craft on the lunar surface and survive long enough to complete the mission goals of roaming about the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending a defined data package, called a “Mooncast”, back to Earth.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/ 

0n FT Predict (Financial Times Predict), the games are openned. The Google Lunar X Prise to be won before 2012 can be bet on or off. It is a volatile value.

A quite different subject than the usual prediction games of FT.com like the pakistani national election date or the possible US + Israel Air Strike over Iran prediction date for 2008...

Google Moon already exist. Images are from the NASA, as well as for Google Space. But if you look for Google Lunar, everything is not ready.

If interested, you can join and apply for a job on the moon, at he Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (GCHEESE) ! 

By Locating a research and technology center on The Moon (Googlunaplex), Google engineers will be able to experiment with an entirely different set of parameters and conditions.

The Googlunaplex will house 35 engineers, 27,000 low cost web servers, 2 massage therapists and a sushi chef formerly employed by the pop group Hanson.

A famous paper : The anatomy of Large Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine to explain the Google Prototype 

More detailed Research papers onto Search Engines are available here :

- Search Results for  "Search Engines"  from Stanford's Google

- Search Results for "Knowledge Management" from Stanford's Google

"Google" as keyword entered into the following search tools :

- ResearchBuzz (Kebberfeg)

- MonitorThis

- MSN Live OPML generator

- KeoTag

and aggregated into one single OPML containing all the flows found : Google_general.opml

Do you search information about Google with Google ? you could maybe use Google Inside, a Google Co-Op CSE (Custom Search Engine) designed for that purpose (expert system). I ve uploaded the interface in the right menu and you can use whenever you like.

A co-op search engine is typically a Google Search onto specialised sites. A way to find the List of all the Co-Op Search Engines would be to submit this request onto Google.com : "inurl:cse site:google.com inurl:coop"

Other tools can be associated to perform a deeper or more specific search : Subscribed links ; OneBoxes...

For info, see also the Official Google Blog, or more unofficials sources : Indicateur , InFlux...and on the french side GoogleInside

Mapshark is a new Google Co-op search engine, designed to search into geomashups directories. Some tips onto Google Maps integrations, see also Googlemapsmania

The concept of Earth Simulator, installed in Japan in march 2002 to run holistic simulations of global climate could be extended to other "world systems", (economic, social, human systems...) for "time forecasts" and prospective analysis Applications already exists in some domains, but these statistics are not yet accessible to the public.
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Supercomputing is already largely repanded (see the top500) in the World.




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Everybody can participate with his own pc to social computing , for instance with the World Grid to give power and energy to the Human Proteome Folding, fight against AIDS, virtual reality, search engines, ...