No, not if it works like Google Adwords. For example someone may search with Yahoo!, go to a page on your site. On your page a piece of Javascript connects to the Adwords server with the page URL. Adwords checks its own database to see what the page is about and serves up appropriate ads based on:
the amount that users are bidding on those keywords
the number of clickthroughs for each ad
#2 is interesting - it means Google does not necesarily serve the highest bidder but the ads that tend to earn most for Google and the website owner.
Just an additional comment, Microsoft Algorithmic Search, launched in Beta about a year ago, has been a dismal failure. MS Adwords will probably go the same way.
ps
if you buy my book: The ABC of SEO ISBN: 1411622510 all is revealed.
As someone who has suffered a tidal wave of spam and some other hack attempts the problem isn't particuarly with the average Chinese internaut but with US citizens hiding behind lax Chinese ISPs.
Chinanet Henan Province and Chinatelecom are notorious homes to US based spammers. I've written a brief paper on the subject here
Ok I've moved a bit off the topic of hacking attemps - but hacking/spamming are two sides of the same coin. Personally I've refrained from banning the whole of China when the problem seems to be some rogue individuals and ISPs.
> One of those is Algebraic Specification, which is an effort to formalise the design and specification of systems (software) using algebraic techniques.
Like Z notation and VDM? Bwahahahaha we did that like over 20 years ago on my CS course and it has still not made it out of Charles Hoare's et als minds. You mathematicians are a solution looking for a problem.
William McDonough says, 'The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones.'
FYI: This phrase is a quote widely attributed to Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Zaki Yamani although in a number of interviews McDonut seems to have appropriated it as his own.
That is a very strange question (unless you are a/.er and really believe M$ is truly evil). I would probably ask the interviewer why he thought M$ was evil - after all Bill and Melissa give $$$ to starving golden haired children etc etc.
> I don't hear about people dieing from stress in th EU, where they have 6 weeks of vacation a year.
They stress out on vacation, not knowing if their office will be there when they get back or whether it has been moved, lock stock and barrel, to China.
Or at least that's how it works in France. Really no different from the US
Hah, that's funny. You know when Hannibal was invading Italy he wrote to his brother to find mercenaries, at the end of the letter he said
"ps don't take any Gauls (French) they are quickly discouraged in battle and moan a lot."
It was Charles de Gaulle who unearthed that gem in a letter to his son. He added the note: "See! 2000 years later the French are no better - they are vealcows just fit to be mown down by German machine guns."
Erm, sorry to say it was the Normans who conquered the English, they were Vikings who had previously conquered Northern France (Normandy). So, erm, that looks like another loss.
I would be surprised if there are astromers out there who haven't taken a look at Mercury... I suspect the article did mean astrologers but they could easily have said "firemen"
In the mid-90s - okay most of your are too young, there was some major disruption of the Internet when rats chewed through a major fibre route linking Mae East with Mae West run by MCI.
The Internet can route around such outages, but sometimes the traffic moves too slowly for many services to continue working effectively.
[i] Microsoft's unilateral move may hurt Internet users"[/i]
This will make Hotmail its own little isolated island... a bit like MSN was in 1995. The move will hurt Hotmail users, nobody much wants to talk with them anyway.
The BBC Money Program went on the trail of phishers and botnetters last week. Only they seemed to be in Russia. One guy phoned up the institution he was attacking taunting them about how he was out of reach in Russia.
Next thing he knew Scotland Yard and Russian Spetznatz troups were kicking his front door in, lobbing in a few stun grenades and restraining Ivan by standing on his throat. They didn't give details of how they tracked him down.
The thing that gives most of these fishing emails away are the egregious spelling errors. I mean, I know the Citibank call center is run by sub-literate Indians these days but I at least expect their emails to be in English.
> Before Win2k, reliability was what everybody complained about, blue screens of death, constant crashing, runing out of resources, that sort of thing.
I tend to agree with you although NT4 from about SP4 was okay. Before that if you pushed NT it would BSOD.
I still get occasional BSODs on various hardware. Mozilla is one cause on my desktop machine at the moment - probably a bug deep down in the display driver so arguably not MS's fault. If you run W2K as a server it seems pretty reliable though and is very very good on Compaqs and big HP servers. Compared to NTs 1 BSOD per day it is much better.
The main problem is that compared to Unix's flat file administration all the Windoze can get their knickers in a twist and require the occasional reinstall to get back to sanity. On a server which isn't touched much it is less of an issue. Probably the worst thing is it is next to impossible to get Windows admins who have a clue - I'm a Unix guy and know a lot more then your average Windows Admin who seems to have the intellectual capacity of pondlife.
> I'm looking at you Citibank... What do you get when you mix an Indian accent with the British flavor of English?
I'm British and I cannot understand the people at Citibank either. It sounds like they may be speaking English but they have such strong Indian accents it is difficult to tell. They should hire some of the Indian's at my local restaurant - they can speak English properly.
I closed my Citibank account because of I had no confidence in their call-center.
Hah, you forgot about the vehicle tracking scheme which will let them know your movements. Won't be long before they put an RFID chip in your brain. To be honest the only idiots are those who voted labour and not for one of the alternatives.
> Gary Kildall never sued, but that doesn't mean copyright violation did not occur.
Indeed. In a book I have on Microsoft there is an interview with Kildall where he claims that SCP DOS was a port of CP/M (anyone at/. who codes will know that it is pretty easy to spot your own code) but Kildall didn't sue because he was already rich and was not that interested in a lengthy court battle. It doesn't mean that Gates knew this at the time.
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No, not if it works like Google Adwords. For example someone may search with Yahoo!, go to a page on your site. On your page a piece of Javascript connects to the Adwords server with the page URL. Adwords checks its own database to see what the page is about and serves up appropriate ads based on:
- the amount that users are bidding on those keywords
- the number of clickthroughs for each ad
#2 is interesting - it means Google does not necesarily serve the highest bidder but the ads that tend to earn most for Google and the website owner.Just an additional comment, Microsoft Algorithmic Search, launched in Beta about a year ago, has been a dismal failure. MS Adwords will probably go the same way.
ps
if you buy my book: The ABC of SEO ISBN: 1411622510 all is revealed.
As someone who has suffered a tidal wave of spam and some other hack attempts the problem isn't particuarly with the average Chinese internaut but with US citizens hiding behind lax Chinese ISPs.
Chinanet Henan Province and Chinatelecom are notorious homes to US based spammers. I've written a brief paper on the subject here
http://www.abcseo.com/papers/referrer-spam.htm
Ok I've moved a bit off the topic of hacking attemps - but hacking/spamming are two sides of the same coin. Personally I've refrained from banning the whole of China when the problem seems to be some rogue individuals and ISPs.
> Regarding accent I just can not take it that it is incomprehensible.
Try calling Citibank - their Indian call center sucks.
> One of those is Algebraic Specification, which is an effort to formalise the design and specification of systems (software) using algebraic techniques.
Like Z notation and VDM? Bwahahahaha we did that like over 20 years ago on my CS course and it has still not made it out of Charles Hoare's et als minds. You mathematicians are a solution looking for a problem.
FYI: This phrase is a quote widely attributed to Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Zaki Yamani although in a number of interviews McDonut seems to have appropriated it as his own.
or in the case of /. stories: chumps, or maybe even chimps!
That is a very strange question (unless you are a /.er and really believe M$ is truly evil). I would probably ask the interviewer why he thought M$ was evil - after all Bill and Melissa give $$$ to starving golden haired children etc etc.
> I don't hear about people dieing from stress in th EU, where they have 6 weeks of vacation a year.
They stress out on vacation, not knowing if their office will be there when they get back or whether it has been moved, lock stock and barrel, to China.
Or at least that's how it works in France. Really no different from the US
I'm on build:
Eclipse Version: 3.1.0
Build id: I20050513-1415
Downloadeda about 6 weeks ago because I needed 5.0 support. It seems stable, I doubt this new build adds anything apart from bugfixes.
Hah, that's funny. You know when Hannibal was invading Italy he wrote to his brother to find mercenaries, at the end of the letter he said
"ps don't take any Gauls (French) they are quickly discouraged in battle and moan a lot."
It was Charles de Gaulle who unearthed that gem in a letter to his son. He added the note: "See! 2000 years later the French are no better - they are vealcows just fit to be mown down by German machine guns."
Erm, sorry to say it was the Normans who conquered the English, they were Vikings who had previously conquered Northern France (Normandy). So, erm, that looks like another loss.
I would be surprised if there are astromers out there who haven't taken a look at Mercury... I suspect the article did mean astrologers but they could easily have said "firemen"
In the mid-90s - okay most of your are too young, there was some major disruption of the Internet when rats chewed through a major fibre route linking Mae East with Mae West run by MCI.
The Internet can route around such outages, but sometimes the traffic moves too slowly for many services to continue working effectively.
[i] Microsoft's unilateral move may hurt Internet users"[/i]
This will make Hotmail its own little isolated island... a bit like MSN was in 1995. The move will hurt Hotmail users, nobody much wants to talk with them anyway.
The BBC Money Program went on the trail of phishers and botnetters last week. Only they seemed to be in Russia. One guy phoned up the institution he was attacking taunting them about how he was out of reach in Russia.
Next thing he knew Scotland Yard and Russian Spetznatz troups were kicking his front door in, lobbing in a few stun grenades and restraining Ivan by standing on his throat. They didn't give details of how they tracked him down.
The thing that gives most of these fishing emails away are the egregious spelling errors. I mean, I know the Citibank call center is run by sub-literate Indians these days but I at least expect their emails to be in English.
Information Retrieval Based on Historical-data
Do /. editors accept these frequent puffs for SEO sites for money I wonder?
and the Scots didn't invent golf
> Before Win2k, reliability was what everybody complained about, blue screens of death, constant crashing, runing out of resources, that sort of thing.
I tend to agree with you although NT4 from about SP4 was okay. Before that if you pushed NT it would BSOD.
I still get occasional BSODs on various hardware. Mozilla is one cause on my desktop machine at the moment - probably a bug deep down in the display driver so arguably not MS's fault. If you run W2K as a server it seems pretty reliable though and is very very good on Compaqs and big HP servers. Compared to NTs 1 BSOD per day it is much better.
The main problem is that compared to Unix's flat file administration all the Windoze can get their knickers in a twist and require the occasional reinstall to get back to sanity. On a server which isn't touched much it is less of an issue. Probably the worst thing is it is next to impossible to get Windows admins who have a clue - I'm a Unix guy and know a lot more then your average Windows Admin who seems to have the intellectual capacity of pondlife.
> I'm looking at you Citibank... What do you get when you mix an Indian accent with the British flavor of English?
I'm British and I cannot understand the people at Citibank either. It sounds like they may be speaking English but they have such strong Indian accents it is difficult to tell. They should hire some of the Indian's at my local restaurant - they can speak English properly.
I closed my Citibank account because of I had no confidence in their call-center.
Hah, you forgot about the vehicle tracking scheme which will let them know your movements. Won't be long before they put an RFID chip in your brain. To be honest the only idiots are those who voted labour and not for one of the alternatives.
but because it has no inbound-links from the wider web it will never acquire any page rank and will be as good, if not, invisible for Google search
Could make a good book - oh it already has, the Time Machine by HG Wells
wouldn't they be better with AMD?
> Gary Kildall never sued, but that doesn't mean copyright violation did not occur.
/. who codes will know that it is pretty easy to spot your own code) but Kildall didn't sue because he was already rich and was not that interested in a lengthy court battle. It doesn't mean that Gates knew this at the time.
Indeed. In a book I have on Microsoft there is an interview with Kildall where he claims that SCP DOS was a port of CP/M (anyone at