What the HECK is up with this? Could you make the word “sponsored” even lighter? Maybe make it even smaller so I can hardly see it at all. (that was sarcasm). Seriously. This is one evil feature. … ironically one of the news feed items RIGHT after this was about ethics in online advertising. ha.
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I just created an updated page over on the Spinn3r site listing all our Open Source contributions. Right now this includes our FeedParser, load balancing JDBC driver, and our benchmarking framework. We have a few more components we need to OSS but they’re not ready just yet.
Categories: crawler,open source,search,spinn3r,tailrank
This is interesting. Apparently Google News is just now getting around to duplicate content detection: Our goal has always been to offer users as many different perspectives on a story from as many different sources as possible, which is why we include thousands of sources from around the world in Google News. However, if many [...]
You guys are amazing! As of Wednesday at 5pm we’ve raised more than $2500 for Greg well surpassing the initial goal of $2k. Greg and I talked today and he was really touched by everyone’s generosity. There are a few options on the table such as sending him to Big Sur, Tahoe, or Yosemite for [...]
Categories: google
Rich writes up a “stream of consciousness” post about why distributed systems design is difficult: We take the simplicity of i=n++ or counting lines for granted. It all begins with a single CPU and we know that model. In fact, we know that model so deeply that we think in it, in the same way [...]
Categories: clustering,crawler,spinn3r
Here’s a mug shot of the arsonist that burned the burning man prematurely. Laughing Squid and Tailrank have more. Wow, this is a shocker. At around 3 am Tuesday morning at Burning Man 2007, during a rare lunar eclipse, the Burning Man sculpture was set on fire prematurely (it is normally burned on Saturday). The [...]
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Yahoo has added a cool new feature to their Site Explorer: Today comes a new wave for search engines with the first-ever Beta launch of ‘Dynamic URL Rewriting’ in Site Explorer. The new feature provides the ability for site owners to alert Yahoo! of the dynamic parameters in URLs that they’d like Yahoo! to ignore, [...]
Scoble started a thread (follow on Tailrank) about how Google is going to be crushed in four years by applications which index the social graph. Search Engine Land has a good follow up: .. we get another spate of “let’s blame SEO” to start my morning off. Robert Scoble uses that theme as a launching [...]
UPDATE: If you tried to donate before but received an error just use the Paypal links at the bottom of this post. The problem has been corrected but I think we’re going to end up losing a bit of money on this one. We’re still making really good progress towards our goal. You guys Rock! [...]
Categories: google
Apparently, Youtube is using ad technology invented by Video Egg. But it is surprising that YouTube failed to give even a passing mention to the company that invented the unit. VideoEgg also claims to have a patent application on this – something YouTube will certainly have to deal with down the road. Really? You think? [...]