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The old newspaper empires typically operated at the national level, rather than global level (even the Wolff/Reuters/Havas telegraph cartel operated within specific geographical boundaries). Similarly, for-profit companies with qu
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> There are no ways to separate political from non political discourse Most large companies (especially in regulated industries) have strict social media policies, e.g. preventing employees from performing company business via their pe
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Instead of debating whether social media platforms should or shouldn't have silenced the president, and what their role was in inciting the crowds to "insurrection", shouldn't we be discussing instead how to completely r
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Bear in mind that there is a vast amount of clicking on "wasted" adverts, i.e. paid adverts which would have been the top result of an organic search anyway, e.g. eBay spending $20M a year on ads targeting the keyword "eBay&q
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Advertising and search engines: When it is okay to mix and when it is not(blog.searchmysite.net)
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I'm sure there would still be plenty of advertising based search engines for them to advertise their content in. See also the high street vs library analogy - if you had great public libraries you wouldn't be putting shopkeepers o
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Why would you even want to search all the sites that are trying to sell you something when you're simply looking for some information? Putting it in pre-internet terms, it'd be like walking down the high street looking at shop win
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I reckon there's a surprisingly simple solution: build a search engine that penalises pages containing adverts. If a page is heavily manipulating SEO to get your attention, you can bet it is loaded with adverts. If you built an anti-ad
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The Google outage is one of the top BBC headlines now, so it has become mainstream news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55299779 "The outage started shortly before noon UK time, with Google sites returning
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One you might like if you haven't seen it already (it is from a couple of years back) is "The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875 (and later
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Not in this article, but in the BBC article[0]: "Both NHS workers have a history of serious allergies and carry adrenaline pens around with them." [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55244122
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Looks promising. But how do we know you are doing your own indexing and not simply buying in the results from Google or Bing like pretty much all of the other search startups? And if you are doing your own indexing, I see you include some v
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"Up to 1914 Wells was in the main a true prophet ... [but] Wells is too sane to understand the modern world. The succession of lower-middle-class novels which are his greatest achievement stopped short at the other war and never really
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Would be interesting to see how the comments change colour over time. A while back, when I used to read and reply to a few comments on the topic, I reckoned there was a bit of a pattern to voting - non-believer comments would turn light gra
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That's awful if true. I guess technically the headline is still correct if you're talking about a millionaire in Rupiah terms (but 1 million Rupiah is only about USD 70). So is the man who became a millionaire (in dollar terms) th
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Its still pretty new and I'm working on it in my spare time, but my side-project https://searchmysite.net/ seems pretty close to what the author is after: - "100% of the software would be free software, and third
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According to a comment on stackexchange.com[0] "the message was Printed on a Color Laser Printer and photographed (or scanned)... The 'hidden message' is a result of a previous print leaving a tiny bit of toner on the drum wh
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> the loudest people tend to be the ones that desire/require the most validation from their peers I have a theory that IT is split into "doers", i.e. the people who do things, and "talkers", i.e. the people who
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> everyone wants to get rich by renting shop space to shovel sellers. That would entail having to own and maintain physical assets (assuming you mean physical shops rather than virtual shops). Isn't the preferred model now to be a
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You can watch any film in ASCII with VLC and a video file[0]: vlc videofile.mp4 -V aa [0] https://wiki.videolan.org/Video_Output/
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A basic listing for free, but a paid-for listing with additional benefits, e.g. greater control over indexing such as the ability to trigger a reindex on demand.
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> "I would love to see Apple build a search engine just as a feature for their products rather than something to stuff to the gills with advertising and make money from. That would completely change the incentive structure. Apple w
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> "A proper, popular search engine is incredibly expensive to run. You can't do it for free. It's going to have to be ad-supported." Not necessarily. Firstly, you might not want to search the whole internet anyway,
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Interesting. It seems the concerns are about restocking rather than poisoning, and the warning signs don't mention the risk of contamination, although it seems advisories are put out when there is elevated risk: https://wild
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Although you could argue that Russia was only able to remain in the war due to intelligence: Moscow didn't fall in Oct and Nov 1941 because of the arrival of reinforcements from the east, and that was possible because British intellige
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Isn't there a risk of amnesic shellfish poisoning[0] in that area? Looking at the wikipedia page for domoic acid[1] Pismo Beach is even mentioned by name. Could that be part of the reason why there's an abundance of shellfish on t
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> "It started with the loss of religious faith in the 19th century and peaked in the late 1930s, a period of dislocating social change and mass bereavement following one war, with another seemingly imminent." It is hard to ov
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Corn is any cereal grain used for food, e.g. wheat, rye or even (in parts of Scotland) oats, not specifically maize (aka corn on the cob).
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Acorns are incredibly high in tannins (the very word tannin comes from the Latin for oak bark), and ingestion of large amounts of tannins will irritate the stomach, cause vomiting, etc. so it is vital that acorns are prepared properly to ma
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Looks nice, but as you say that just searches the current page. Here's how I search my entire site with slightly fewer lines of JavaScript: // Construct the API query const apiEndpoint = 'https://searchmy

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