MONTREAL, Sept. 21/CNW Telbec/ - Yellow Pages Group (YPG) today announced a strategic agreement with Google that will make its business listings available on Google Local Canada, a new local search service that can be found at http://local.google.ca . As part of the agreement, YPG's 2.4 million Canadian directory listings will be available on the new Google site, helping to provide users of the service with comprehensive local search results.
"The distribution agreement provides great benefits for both our customers and users conducting local searches," commented Jean-Pascal Lion, Vice President - Electronic Directories, Yellow Pages Group. "In addition to YellowPages.ca(TM), it gives users another entry point to access our information which ultimately provides our advertisers with greater exposure. It really is a win-win situation."
"With the backing of YPG's up-to-date, extensive business listings database, this new functionality will significantly enhance the user's experience when doing a search on Local.Google.ca or Google.ca by providing complete local Canadian information through a single source," notes Mr. Lion.
According to a Kelsey Group study, 25% of all commercial online searches are now local in nature. Google Local addresses the growing online local search market and represents the next step in local search technology. YPG's network of Web sites received 3.8 million unique visitors in July 2004 and Google Canada's sites received more than 12.3 million unique visitors during that same period(1). With their combined reach in Canada - more than 72% of all Canadian Internet users - and their extensive data, YPG and Google should optimize the relevance and completeness of local searches.
The 17" powerbook was also criticized for not having a number pad also. The resolution for the 17" powerbook is a nice 1440x900 (which of course is not a standard size, like many Apple products)
It says that "The companies estimate they could have lost $900 million" (Firstly this number is overinflated.) Many of the people that were part of this scheme dont have the money to pay for satellite legally. They chose the illegal option because it was what they can afford. Thus it is not lost revenue to the companies since these people would never have paid full price.
The same goes with things like.... ohh.. say mp3's. I would not go out and buy a cd. I have a perfecty good radio and am happy to listen to that.
Im in Montreal, and Im seeing London, Frankfurt, Melbourne, and the one guy from "Slashdot effect" I would be nice to know how many people there are in Total.. Im hopeing for more then the 34 in my "area"
"Rosetta will inspect two asteroids (Otawara and Siwa) at close quarters." I didn't know that Canada's Capitol was an asteroid... You learn something new everday!
I totally agree./. has the money/power/servers/clout to cache a site. Why not do it for a day then drop it? Go maybe 2 levels down, turn the images black&white to save space?
I very much agree with this. The thought of having my site slashdotted is to much to handle. Not being able to get online for a week would drive me (and many other geeks) nuts.
We all know/. has the power to host most of the personal sites it links to. Why not use it?
You can convert the images to greyscale to save space if needbe.
What would be the legal/moral issues to this. Say it does happen. (virus gets out, and sends bad info to the music industry)
Given: 1. The virus isnt classified as a virus (for whatever reason) or it gets spred around as a "screw the music industry files"... 2. It doesnt do anything else (delete files etc)...
Would the Music people have any rights against the people using it? The creator(s)? Just wondering...
I like that it's dishwasher safe. Drunk people can't be trusted to hand wash glass.
That depends on the person. For example, my girlfriend can do cartweels drunk, along with many other interesting things that I prefer to keep to myself... It's funny, laugh;)
I had a friend that said that his computer was smoking just before he wasnt able to get it to boot up again. I didnt believe him, cuz, well what does he know. Probally just dust. When I took a look at the hardware I noticed that the HardDrive wasnt being detected on any computer I installed it on. Turns out that one of the chips on the bottem of it was scorched. Strange stuff if you ask me.
Has been really bad in the past year when it comes to bandwidth. When I 1st singed up with them I was getting almost 25K upload within the Videotron network and ~21K outside. Now I am luckly to get 15K upload. I called and expressed my extreme dissatifation, and they just stone walled (stone-walled?) me.
But its still the fastest you can get w/o going to a corporate plan from Bell. =p
What I think was ment by a CPU fan that flaps in the breeze was not the fan by maybe the heatsink that the fan blows on.
But if they were really talking about the fan then I'd have to get one of those and sit it next to my perpetual motion machine and cold fusion reactor.
For the last 2 years, since I started listning to MP3's more than audio CD's, I've had my computer wired up to my sterio system in my room. Granted that the quality is not as good as if you would be using a CD player that is directly attached to the Amp, but it does the job.
It could be the old SoundBlaster 16 ISA card to... hmmmm should look into getting a new sound card.
Slashdot Mirror
MONTREAL, Sept. 21 /CNW Telbec/ - Yellow Pages Group (YPG) today
announced a strategic agreement with Google that will make its business
listings available on Google Local Canada, a new local search service that can
be found at http://local.google.ca . As part of the agreement, YPG's 2.4
million Canadian directory listings will be available on the new Google site,
helping to provide users of the service with comprehensive local search
results.
"The distribution agreement provides great benefits for both our
customers and users conducting local searches," commented Jean-Pascal Lion,
Vice President - Electronic Directories, Yellow Pages Group. "In addition to
YellowPages.ca(TM), it gives users another entry point to access our
information which ultimately provides our advertisers with greater exposure.
It really is a win-win situation."
"With the backing of YPG's up-to-date, extensive business listings
database, this new functionality will significantly enhance the user's
experience when doing a search on Local.Google.ca or Google.ca by providing
complete local Canadian information through a single source," notes Mr. Lion.
According to a Kelsey Group study, 25% of all commercial online searches
are now local in nature. Google Local addresses the growing online local
search market and represents the next step in local search technology. YPG's
network of Web sites received 3.8 million unique visitors in July 2004 and
Google Canada's sites received more than 12.3 million unique visitors during
that same period(1). With their combined reach in Canada - more than 72% of
all Canadian Internet users - and their extensive data, YPG and Google should
optimize the relevance and completeness of local searches.
Science: The Controversy of a Potential Human Bomb
Back in my day, viruses came in via the boot-sector of floppy drive. You actually had to know fudge to write one
You were lucky you had a boot-sector! All we got were sock-sectors! You were happy if you got two that matched!
Why not set this un in Montreal? We have a mountain the middle of the city...
All this talk about batteries and only one matrix reference?!
For shame Slashdot. For shame!
Ok, if this is good for us, and good for BayStar, we just buy some stock of BayStar.
1) We buy BayStar stock
2) SCO goes under
3) BayStar profets from shorting
4) ???
5) profit
No?
Anyone else have problems running the .mov? Even on my iMac it refuses to run.
BTW: That is one sick device!
The 17" powerbook was also criticized for not having a number pad also. The resolution for the 17" powerbook is a nice 1440x900 (which of course is not a standard size, like many Apple products)
It says that "The companies estimate they could have lost $900 million" (Firstly this number is overinflated.)
Many of the people that were part of this scheme dont have the money to pay for satellite legally. They chose the illegal option because it was what they can afford. Thus it is not lost revenue to the companies since these people would never have paid full price.
The same goes with things like.... ohh.. say mp3's. I would not go out and buy a cd. I have a perfecty good radio and am happy to listen to that.
Just my $0.02
Im in Montreal, and Im seeing London, Frankfurt, Melbourne, and the one guy from "Slashdot effect"
I would be nice to know how many people there are in Total.. Im hopeing for more then the 34 in my "area"
"Rosetta will inspect two asteroids (Otawara and Siwa) at close quarters."
I didn't know that Canada's Capitol was an asteroid...
You learn something new everday!
I totally agree. /. has the money/power/servers/clout to cache a site. Why not do it for a day then drop it? Go maybe 2 levels down, turn the images black&white to save space?
I very much agree with this. The thought of having my site slashdotted is to much to handle. Not being able to get online for a week would drive me (and many other geeks) nuts.
/. has the power to host most of the personal sites it links to. Why not use it?
We all know
You can convert the images to greyscale to save space if needbe.
My 2 cents
What would be the legal/moral issues to this. Say it does happen. (virus gets out, and sends bad info to the music industry)
Given:
1. The virus isnt classified as a virus (for whatever reason) or it gets spred around as a "screw the music industry files"...
2. It doesnt do anything else (delete files etc)...
Would the Music people have any rights against the people using it? The creator(s)?
Just wondering...
Im mirroring it also here
Can the MPAA press charges in other countires? Seeing how most of the movies come from Asia, do they have any jurisdiction in these countries?
...I thought that Windows was just one program: explorer.exe
The ignorant belief they are wise; the wise know they are ignorant.
I like that it's dishwasher safe. Drunk people can't be trusted to hand wash glass.
;)
That depends on the person. For example, my girlfriend can do cartweels drunk, along with many other interesting things that I prefer to keep to myself...
It's funny, laugh
...that posting at 3:18am (EST) is good for my health!
This may be a little offtopic but please bear with me.
Has anyone had success in running TFC (The Half Life mod) in linux using wine? I've been able to load Half Life, but can't get TFC to work.
I had a friend that said that his computer was smoking just before he wasnt able to get it to boot up again. I didnt believe him, cuz, well what does he know. Probally just dust. When I took a look at the hardware I noticed that the HardDrive wasnt being detected on any computer I installed it on. Turns out that one of the chips on the bottem of it was scorched.
Strange stuff if you ask me.
All us people that do not drive? Will we not be allowed to buy booze?
Has been really bad in the past year when it comes to bandwidth. When I 1st singed up with them I was getting almost 25K upload within the Videotron network and ~21K outside. Now I am luckly to get 15K upload. I called and expressed my extreme dissatifation, and they just stone walled (stone-walled?) me.
But its still the fastest you can get w/o going to a corporate plan from Bell. =p
-nuclearsnake
What I think was ment by a CPU fan that flaps in the breeze was not the fan by maybe the heatsink that the fan blows on.
But if they were really talking about the fan then I'd have to get one of those and sit it next to my perpetual motion machine and cold fusion reactor.
-nuclearsnake
For the last 2 years, since I started listning to MP3's more than audio CD's, I've had my computer wired up to my sterio system in my room. Granted that the quality is not as good as if you would be using a CD player that is directly attached to the Amp, but it does the job.
It could be the old SoundBlaster 16 ISA card to... hmmmm should look into getting a new sound card.
-nuclearsnake