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by aneesh 18y ago
TechCrunch is being cryptic ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/25/googles-misleading-blog... ) “Google also says 'But we’re proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine.' That may be true today, but it probably won’t be
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by aneesh 18y ago
Search is also a game of scale. And Microsoft has billions to throw at building this. C'est la vie, I guess.
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Microsoft Scores Facebook Search Deal(techcrunch.com)
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
And they do. He was a rockstar for them.
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by aneesh 18y ago
He never said he waited two months to plan. He just said that he was still facing those issues two months after the kid was born. He seems like a smart and responsible guy. The logical conclusion that most of us would come to is that ra
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by aneesh 18y ago
I hope you're not implying that kids have the same failure rates as startup companies. It really seems like you're trying to force the analogy here. +1 for the corollary though :-)
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by aneesh 18y ago
It seems that most of us aren't explicitly aware when our brain is "tired" (as opposed to our muscles). But we have to decide that we are too tired to make decisions. In some cases, that may be non-trivial. I don't mean to sound cynical
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by aneesh 18y ago
As ad_price --> 0, bubble --> pop
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Microsoft acquiring digg on the other hand? That would be a death notice to digg's userbase." I don't think the average user would care/notice who owns Digg, and even if they did, they probably wouldn't change their choice of social
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by aneesh 18y ago
> Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to fix the fact that Vista has no compelling features Without getting into specifics, Vista is a much more secure operating system than XP. It also has much better support for detecting and resolving
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by aneesh 18y ago
You'd need some way to vet users, so that you could seem credible when selling ads to advertisers. As an advertiser, it'd be hard to me to verify that you're actually displaying my ad, and even harder for me to estimate my ROI.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Microsoft Office will eventually lose its throne, but I'm not sure I agree when you say that a startup can do better at making an online version of Office than Microsoft can. Microsoft has built-in advantages: they have an existing codebas
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by aneesh 18y ago
Seems like you're looking for something like Kosmix ( http://www.kosmix.com/ ). The way they present results indicates that design is a major part of their users' experience.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Agreed, but that's not my point. The article claims amazing percentage growth, and then uses that to say that if Apple keeps growing at this rate, Microsoft should be scared. It's ridiculous to expect long-term growth at this rate. Maybe
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Apple (AAPL) shipped 1.4 million computers in the US during Q2, representing 8.5% market share and 38% year-over-year growth. Mac shipments grew 9 times faster than the overall U.S. PC market (4.2%) in Q2." Is basic mathematical lite
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by aneesh 18y ago
i can't seem to find a simple solution on-line Even in this day and age, the off-line solutions are better. Get a DVD or flash drive and send it by mail or FedEx. Even on a moderately fast connection 5 GB is no joke to download.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, he's really vague in answering questions, and didn't say anything of substance throughout the whole article. I can't figure out what Sprint didn't like about it.
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by aneesh 18y ago
His name is on some MySQL bug reports.( http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32930 ) There's also an address for postal mail, and info for wire transfers ( http://www.theopenforce.com/2008/07/andrii-nikitin.html ) I agree, they should perhaps a
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by aneesh 18y ago
Fair enough. If users click it, then it can't hurt I suppose. Live Search uses similar "Is this helpful?" prompts that just annoy me, but presumably some people must be voting. As for me, I'll tell you what I like by what I click.
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by aneesh 18y ago
What's the point of the arrows? If I like it, I'll click and not come back. If not, I won't click, or I'll come right back if I do. Voila. facebook tried a similar voting mechanism in their News Feed, and withdrew it pretty soon. Again,
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by aneesh 18y ago
Continuing that line of reasoning, that makes 37signals the more "credible" source because they're unbiased. YC has a vested financial interest in lots of young people attempting "it". Now that doesn't have to mean it's not in your interes
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by aneesh 18y ago
The Windows Mobile is over a decade old as a platform for apps. The Blackberry also allows 3rd party apps. As a platform, there's nothing new here with the iPhone except lots of hype and a slick UI.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "but with the platform iPhone becomes the new personal computer .... Every major service, Amazon, Netflx, Twitter, Digg, Flickr, Facebook, is already available, or will soon be, ... this is powerful and unprecedented Unprecedented?
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by aneesh 18y ago
This sadly is how the world works. In school, even in high school and college, the students who guess the teacher's password are rewarded. The (few) students who make an effort to discover and think through something on their own are crit
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by aneesh 18y ago
Agreed, the title is misleading. But you're also misleading by saying that these are merely some 130K out of millions of titles. Those are 130K of the highest-selling books by volume on Amazon - I wouldn't be surprised if they accounted fo
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by aneesh 18y ago
MS is all about separating search into verticals, as opposed to Google's one-box-fits-all-queries approach. Live Search is desperate for anything that will attract more queries, so I really doubt they'd kill BOSS.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I think that was implied in edw519's post.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yahoo! has a brand and name recognition, and many Yahoo! users are non-techie people who are barely even keeping up with what's going on. I doubt the exodus of Yahoo! VPs or whatever Icahn does will affect their choice of search engine. M
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Microsoft Launches Hosted Exchange Deals(techcrunch.com)
2 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/07/01/powerset... Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco That's good.

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