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Imagine how much power Google could harness if they just put a little JavaScript that did some parallelizable task on google.com. Since it's so many people's default page, at any given time there's probably millions of computers idling with it open.

If I were Google I would be sooo evil.



If they did that, Google wouldn't be Google anymore and probably everyone including me would be so pissed that they would use alternatives.


There are quite a few people running Google Toolbar (or Desktop) as a native executable too.




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