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comScore Releases April 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
why does Microsoft bother with search?
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April 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings
In April, Google Sites extended its share of core searches
to 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent the previous month. Yahoo! Sites ranked
second with 20.4 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.1 percent), AOL LLC
(4.6 percent), and Ask Network (4.3 percent).
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FT.com / In depth – Food prices forecast to stay high for 10 years
higher food prices here for 10 years.
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The report, by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, will say food prices have moved to a “higher plateau” because of rising demand from the biofuels industry and developing countries such as China.
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FT.com / World / US & Canada – Canada looks to rein in bank liquidity
Aside from the validity of the decision to reduce availability of liquidity to Canadian Banks, I am fascinated by the comment that Canada “largely excaped the meltdown”. Arguably it was relatively less in Canada, but with losses of somewhere close to $10 billion, and the subsequent lockdown on new investment by Canadian Banks, one has to question the reasonablness of that statemen.
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He noted in an interview with the Financial Times that liquidity stress in Canadian markets was much less than in the US or Europe. Canada has also largely escaped the meltdown in the US subprime mortgage market.
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Software Creation Mystery » The Secret of Building Effective Software Systems
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Software Development is a pure mental endeavor (except typing on keyboard) that includes 3 main activities:
- Understand – learn and know system concepts and implementation
- Evolve – build, modify and support growth of the system ideas in the code
- Share – communicate and exchange ideas about the system
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FT.com / In depth – Asia to cut subsidies as oil hits $135
crisis what crisis ?
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As crude oil pushed through $135 a barrel for the first time, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia announced plans for urgent action to free prices or cut subsidy costs. China denied rumours of an imminent increase in retail prices, but may relax price controls.
Hueniverse: Scaling a Microblogging Service – Part I
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The retrieval system is where things are not as simple. Unlike webmail services where refreshing a user’s inbox only queries a very simple data set (is there anything new in MY inbox?), refreshing a user’s home page on Twitter queries a much more complex data set (are there any new updates in ALL my friends’ pages?) and the nature of the service means that the ratio of reads to writes is significantly different from most other web services.
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