Daily Archives: February 15, 2008

Highlights from Web Search and Data Mining 2008 0

The signal to noise at WSDM was great. The only conference I’ve been to in a while where I had to do homework after the talks (which is a good thing). There were some really good highlights from WSDM which I wanted to point out. I’m going to sit down with the papers and read [...]

Categories: search,web2.0

Published:
February 15, 2008 – 5:35 pm
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Digg’s Sad HTTP Error handling. 1

Digg has lame HTTP error handling. Fetch any Digg page which should 404: Let’s try to fetch http://digg.com/asdfffffffffsdf (which surely won’t exist). HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: http://digg.com/error FOUND? Are you sure? Let’s check out http://digg.com/error HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found What? Wait. I’m not sure I follow. You just told me you found a page called [...]

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Published:
February 15, 2008 – 5:02 pm
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Amazon S3 Down for > 2 Hours 1

Looks like S3 was hit with a major system outage. Placing all this Internet infrastructure in one place is dangerous (though potentially cost effective). A few months back 365 Main was hit with a similar problem which knocked out Six Apart, Technorati, and Craigslist. Update: Well that exploded. Everyone seems to be covering this story [...]

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Published:
February 15, 2008 – 12:32 pm
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