Not only do they use small feathered dinosaurs they use Phds also!
"Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters.
Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google's pack of more than 50
Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick
orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data
coop."
On 4/3/07, Richard W. Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu> wrote:
they use small feathered dinosaurs
the picture is priceless
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html