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Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System
Zanzibar is an authorization system developed at Google and used by more than 1500 client services, including Calendar, Cloud, Drive, Maps, Photos, and Youtube
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The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
This is a well-known paper. It was published in 1998 and it describes Google as a prototype of a large-scale search engine. According to the authors, this paper was the first in-depth public description of a large-scale web search engine. The authors describe how to build a practical large-scale search system that exploits information present in hypertext, thus producing better search results than existing search systems.