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by mda 16y ago
They definitely used results from Google. They use results for terms users entered to Google to crawl pages that are not in their index (torsorophy example which is not an artificial one) therefore enriching their index based on google's re
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by mda 16y ago
It matters because if you use your main competitors results and ranking to change your results and ranking, you can no longer claim you are original, innnovative or better. It just taints everything you did.
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by mda 16y ago
Well, while doing this they clearly knew that Google is by far the biggest search engine in the world, and naturally most of the data would be coming directly from Google. Right?
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by mda 16y ago
2 million shipments over 3 months is around 22,000 a day, not 33,000.
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by mda 16y ago
Because people likes far fetched conspiracy theories more than obvious and simple facts.
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by mda 16y ago
In 2003, total internet advertising revenue was 1/3 of 2009's. Also adjust for inflation and look at the picture again.
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by mda 16y ago
They should have put a graph of internet users and total on-line ad revenue comparing 2003 and 2010.
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by mda 16y ago
Yes, HN is the main source where you can read sane comments about technology. Google news and Techmeme are ok. Techcrunch went down so quickly with its technologically challenged authors, bad site design, mindless comments from fanboys, as
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by mda 16y ago
He is playing with words. "Fact 1: Android runs Linux. But it’s not “the Linux.”" No, It IS "the Linux". A lot of distributions do not use vanilla Linux kernel. You are free to change whatever part you want. It does not change the fact that
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by mda 16y ago
You said this: "if you look, for instance, at Scandinavia, where the rate of rapes has risen dramatically as more and more Muslims immigrate there." making correlation with increased rape rates with "muslim" immigrants and then said "Obviou
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by mda 16y ago
They abused whole IT ecosystem with Windows for years. That is the main reason for the general distaste against Microsoft.
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by mda 16y ago
Actually i haven't seen any scrolling performance issues on Nexus S so far.
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How to remain calm, despite what's about to happen to your Chrome notebook(youtube.com)
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by mda 16y ago
This was the missing piece; Facebook disconnect extension is awesome and this one completes my escape from useless social cruft.
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by mda 16y ago
Years ago we were writing some code involving windows telephony api. There was something wrong with one of the calls, it was not applying one of the parameters as documented in the api. Because of that we ended up dissembling it and making