Via the Daily ACK, the University of Washington has their Computer Science & Engineering colloquium series available online.

One gem in this series is "Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look." The presenter discusses a little bit about culture, a tad about their algorithms, data centers, trends, ongoing research, and so on. Each of the topics could have a dedicated video in its own right. Still a great breadth-first overview.

I've always loved data. It seems to me that all of the creative and elegant software out there has arisen directly as a result of humans needing to deal with and categorize information. No data? Not much to do, now, is there? Sure, sure, ... people often cook up some hypothesis or artificial goal in order to get motivated, but processing information is so ingrained in what we are and do that it truly seems to be the reason for human existence.

Alright, maybe that was too preachy/zen-like/whatever. Just watch the damned video. :)