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How did Google find all those lost e-mails?

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CNN; By John D. Sutter
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Answer: Google still stores e-mail data on tape.

Yes, tape. Like, essentially the technology behind the cassette. Google doesn't specify what kind of tape it's using exactly, but as Seth Weintraub notes on a blog on the CNN partner site Fortune.com, using tape is a mess.

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