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In a keynote Wednesday titled "A Look Behind the Scenes at Google," Urs Hoelzle, vice president of engineering, essentially described the company's secret sauce as "the return of batch computing." Large numbers of cheap hardware, plus networking and intelligent software to support fault tolerance and other key functions, have gone a long way with the Mountain View, Calif., company, he said.