The billions of dollars Google and Facebook invest in data centers and backbone infrastructure shape the physical characteristics of the Internet while the alliances they forge and the battles they choose to fight determine its political constitution.

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One of the dominant characteristics of beaches is their constant changes in form, shape and sometimes the very material of which they are composed.

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Administrators can use "nerd knobs" in the product's management system to control what may be searched, and shape results around characteristics such as when or literally where, geographically speaking, a document was created.

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