Most search companies don't make their revenue from their internet sites. Look at google.com. They make a ton of money selling their search software to companies. At 1,200 a month per company that wants to use it. Sounds like a pretty good business model to me.
This teoma, I'm sure, is just trying to attract clients. Just wait, they'll get ads soon.
First, these projects seem silly. I could care less if I can watch DivX movies on my TV. I never like them as much as the real thing. So it seems like an incredibly expensive, worthless project.
What I really want is a ReplayTV thingie. I want one bad, but not only do I not wanna pay for it, I don't wanna have to spend $500.
I use Google. Google is great and you're right, it does implement many of those features. Without cheaters, the fact still remains that a majority of sites fail to use description and keyword metatags.
"Good luck. The latest versions of Google include over 1 billion pages. Manual sifting for poorly labeled ones just plain isn't an option if your primary goal is comprehensiveness"
Well, the idea wouldn't be to look at ALL the pages, but rather, the main sites themselves. Porn is easy enough to find. By looking at the frontpage of sites, you'll be in better shape, even if you are just removing several million cheater domains.
Heck, you could hire high school students to do determine if a site is cheating or not. Not that difficult.
The problem isn't the searches, it's the people who make the webpages.
Why doesn't everyone use metatags properly? What about specifying good (descriptive) title tags?
Plus, don't you think it would be much easier if people actually didn't try to cheat search engines?
In actuallity there would be some very easy ways to score pages for relevance then:
1) The number of times a particular word shows up in the keywords, and description of the page.
2) If the word actually appeared in the title of the page.
3) The number of times the word appears in the body of the text
4) The length of the supposedly searched word
5) The number of times a particular page is linked to.
6) The words used to in the link
7) The number of times the linking page is linked.
Wouldn't the world be happier. Personally, I think that it would be great that if there was an editing team that would simply delete misrepresented pages.
The article said that there has been a trend of global temperature increases. The fact that the eastern US is cooling is merely an effect of the global climate changes.
That is, the fact that there is more cloud cover is usually an indication of higher rates of evaporation, i.e. higher temperatures.
So basically this articles doesn't really mean anything accept to confirm the global warming theory.
I agree... it's short-sighted. Not to mention naive. It wouldn't take more than a small lan (like at my house) could easily have several hundred gigabytes of data.
Not to mention, why the heck would I want to rewind miles of tape?
There's something fishy about this if they seriously think it's gonna survive the first couple months because tape is about 10 years out of date.
You can turn any sort of "waves" into thier audio equivalent.
What's the point?
Sure it has a little novelty of it, but it's not generally soothing/interesting. I mean, do people actually turn something like this on before they go to bed?
Instead of the funny screeching noises I just heard, I like the ocean waves. Heck maybe even music?
You're close, not only would it be nearly impossible to control, people will just figure a way around it.
When was the last time some type of service like this wasn't hacked apart?
The only way this will work is voluntary, and for obvious reasons this does not work real well, check www.fairtunes.com to see how few people have actually "tipped" their favorite artists.
Dr. Jakob Neilsen has alot of interesting things to say about micropayments, but take it with a grain of salt because "In an ideal world" there would be no need for money."
I just hope that this love affair with open source software isn't a passing fling.
Let's face it, free stuff never made for a great business plan. Think about one of the major reasons the internet failed to make money.
Could it have something to do with, the internet wasn't designed for a business plan and sales of large scale items, like furniture, for example.
Likewise, it's hard to say that Open Source software was really designed for sales.
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Most search companies don't make their revenue from their internet sites. Look at google.com. They make a ton of money selling their search software to companies. At 1,200 a month per company that wants to use it. Sounds like a pretty good business model to me.
This teoma, I'm sure, is just trying to attract clients. Just wait, they'll get ads soon.
I think he might have a point. I got to technology driven ADD and quit reading.
First, these projects seem silly. I could care less if I can watch DivX movies on my TV. I never like them as much as the real thing. So it seems like an incredibly expensive, worthless project.
What I really want is a ReplayTV thingie. I want one bad, but not only do I not wanna pay for it, I don't wanna have to spend $500.
Someone point me to a ReplayTV project.
Trust me it can read minds: Google Mentalplex
I use Google. Google is great and you're right, it does implement many of those features. Without cheaters, the fact still remains that a majority of sites fail to use description and keyword metatags.
"Good luck. The latest versions of Google include over 1 billion pages. Manual sifting for poorly labeled ones just plain isn't an option if your primary goal is comprehensiveness"
Well, the idea wouldn't be to look at ALL the pages, but rather, the main sites themselves. Porn is easy enough to find. By looking at the frontpage of sites, you'll be in better shape, even if you are just removing several million cheater domains.
Heck, you could hire high school students to do determine if a site is cheating or not. Not that difficult.
The problem isn't the searches, it's the people who make the webpages.
Why doesn't everyone use metatags properly? What about specifying good (descriptive) title tags?
Plus, don't you think it would be much easier if people actually didn't try to cheat search engines?
In actuallity there would be some very easy ways to score pages for relevance then:
1) The number of times a particular word shows up in the keywords, and description of the page.
2) If the word actually appeared in the title of the page.
3) The number of times the word appears in the body of the text
4) The length of the supposedly searched word
5) The number of times a particular page is linked to.
6) The words used to in the link
7) The number of times the linking page is linked.
Wouldn't the world be happier. Personally, I think that it would be great that if there was an editing team that would simply delete misrepresented pages.
Anyway. That's my two cents.
As other's have so eloquently put it already, Darwin's theory is not destroyed.
Though, as humans we are quickly escaping our need to adapt to the environment because we are adapting our environment to fit us.
Wrong conclusion.
The article said that there has been a trend of global temperature increases. The fact that the eastern US is cooling is merely an effect of the global climate changes.
That is, the fact that there is more cloud cover is usually an indication of higher rates of evaporation, i.e. higher temperatures.
So basically this articles doesn't really mean anything accept to confirm the global warming theory.
Remember though it requires "animals with closely-related".
That nullifies a majority of extinct species.
I wouldn't worry about any dinosaurs etc, but that still leaves the possibility of humans.
Could you imagine some rich right-wing, nazi wanting to clone Hitler?
I agree... it's short-sighted. Not to mention naive. It wouldn't take more than a small lan (like at my house) could easily have several hundred gigabytes of data.
Not to mention, why the heck would I want to rewind miles of tape?
There's something fishy about this if they seriously think it's gonna survive the first couple months because tape is about 10 years out of date.
What's the point?
Sure it has a little novelty of it, but it's not generally soothing/interesting. I mean, do people actually turn something like this on before they go to bed?
Instead of the funny screeching noises I just heard, I like the ocean waves. Heck maybe even music?
I'm just wondering.
When was the last time some type of service like this wasn't hacked apart?
The only way this will work is voluntary, and for obvious reasons this does not work real well, check www.fairtunes.com to see how few people have actually "tipped" their favorite artists.
Dr. Jakob Neilsen has alot of interesting things to say about micropayments, but take it with a grain of salt because "In an ideal world" there would be no need for money."
I just hope that this love affair with open source software isn't a passing fling. Let's face it, free stuff never made for a great business plan. Think about one of the major reasons the internet failed to make money. Could it have something to do with, the internet wasn't designed for a business plan and sales of large scale items, like furniture, for example. Likewise, it's hard to say that Open Source software was really designed for sales.
Anyone can make something bomb proof, truck proof, etc, but who's going to use it?
seriously.
At least in My Narrow Point of View