You can obviously piece bits together from news stories like these and various estimates given both by them and other people, but you'll never find hard numbers.
Of course, but there was a time when SEO people and others were trying to maintain lists of crawler and data center IPs, and for some reason nobody seems to be doing that anymore on a larger scale. Or they do, and I can't find them, but that's why I was asking.
Wikipedia has an article Google platform which mentions some locations. Maybe this is a good place to collect verified data centers.
The authors raise two interesting questions on skew and data interchange wrt scaling in section 2. (poor impl), issues others supposedly have solved. Has anyone run into those problems with MapReduce? Are they not important when using MapReduce in the "real world"?
These days, hardly any user enters queries in the form of natural language questions, judging from log files. That was different a couple of years ago.
Just like "Click here to do X" isn't used as much on Web pages anymore. People now tend to know that they can click on underlined text to find out more.
What it holds: Up to 285,000 digital photos Up to 250,000 songs (MP3) Up to 25,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality) Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV) Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video Up to 100 hours of HD video
I didn't know about how people are charged in America, so this was interesting to me. The sheer number of text messages sent by typical teenagers was also a point of interest.
The font size is normal. If you consider that text long, how did you manage to get through school, let a alone a typical Slashdot comments page? As for the lack of pictures: this is not kindergarten. Nobody needs those symbolic images used in typical online news articles that never add anything to the story (a candidate in this case: a picture of someone using a cellphone).
Someone has copied a number of pages from my site. A link to my original URL was included, though. When I finally found a mail address, the person replying was apologetic and claimed to only have done it because my pages were so slow to access from China. He/She removed the page, but there were copies later of other pages. I gave up asking for removal -- it cost me a lot of time just finding the mail address in that case. Everything is in Chinese. It's a bit annoying, but there's not much I think I can do and I don't think anyone's trying to steal from me.
I remember reading about the beginning of the airing of Sesame Street in Germany in 1972, and how there were complaints about how bad a role model Oscar living in a trash can is for children. Something like that might be suitable for the USA (back then and sometimes even today the narrow-minded's scapegoat for horrible developments in society), but not in good old clean Germany.
Sigh. History... repeating...
On the upside, it will probably be fine 35 years from now.
Nobody knows how long exactly the service is made available. Please do some long-term thinking before using this, esp. in public forums. More than once, I couldn't follow those stupid mini URLs for whatever reason. They're just bad. More criticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL#Criticism.
Actually, you can notify Wikipedia of copyright violations. They're usually pretty good about following up.
I know, but it wasn't a 1:1 copy and I didn't want to bitch. I also didn't care that much, and I have received a lot from Wikipedia. In the end, with my (grandparent) posting I wanted to point out that cause and effect aren't always as clear as they seem to be, I used my personal experience only as a case in point, not to complain.
As for how to know which came first, one way is with The Wayback Machine.
Yep, that's what I meant with archive.org. It's not that reliable in terms of coverage.
There are (or were) at least two articles in Wikipedia that are my texts (from my site) with slight variations on sentences. So whoever visits those Wikipedia articles (or did so in the past) and then my pages must come to the conclusion that I stole the stuff from Wikipedia without giving credit. I can't even prove that because I don't have a public version history, and archive.org is spotty when it comes to my site.
In this case (Wiley book) the articles were there way before the book, so the case seems to be clear, but in general, I recommend to keep an open mind about who copied where.
Actually, in Germany it's the beginning of the carnival session, with people putting on costumes and getting drunk in the streets in the morning (at 11:11 am, November 11th = 11/11, something about the "craziness" of the numbers), cf. Wikipedia. This custom precedes the two world wars, and it's not celebrated by everyone, but if you ask someone about November 11th in Germany, this will most likely be what they think of.
Germany has a Volkstrauertag, which is also in November.
To me, the Netherlands and Israel are two prime examples of countries known for their high level of English literacy. Why wouldn't they just use English but rely on an automated translator?
You can debate DJB's personal approach to security, but you cannot fault his priorities.
While his emphasis on security is commendable, the various problems with qmail (as others have pointed out) make it less or not at all usable. If the secure software isn't used, nobody wins. To put it differently, he places usability at such a low level that the security bonus of his software is outweighed. In the end, it does make his priorities appear questionable.
Big surprise, the big American company cannot compete on accuracy versus a search engine specialized on finding Norwegian results? This is surprising how exactly?
Google has good search technology, and search is automated so it doesn't really matter whether the text is Norwegian or English. In Germany Google has a market share of over 90 percent although there certainly are contenders and there is money to be made, but Google is almost a monopoly. Could be the same in Norway or Russia, but apparently isn't.
The question remains, is this a technology or a marketing issue (better search or better brand recognition)?
I can't think of a single site that I found through google.
Most people don't care about sites, it's about single pages relevant to the query.
I'm pretty sure many visitors don't even fully understand the concept of a site, given the referer search terms of the type www term1 term2 that lead people to my site (term1 and term2 not being part of my domain). They just learned that typing stuff into Google gets them to interesting places.
What makes you think Germany would do that? Germany has rather harsh laws to protect personal privacy. Forcing people to reveal stuff about themselves to the world doesn't really fit into that.
Slashdot Mirror
YPOPs! makes Yahoo mail accessible via POP3 (by scraping, I guess).
You can obviously piece bits together from news stories like these and various estimates given both by them and other people, but you'll never find hard numbers.
Of course, but there was a time when SEO people and others were trying to maintain lists of crawler and data center IPs, and for some reason nobody seems to be doing that anymore on a larger scale. Or they do, and I can't find them, but that's why I was asking.
Wikipedia has an article Google platform which mentions some locations. Maybe this is a good place to collect verified data centers.
Is there a somewhat up to date list of Google's data center locations on the Web? Everything I can find is outdated.
The authors raise two interesting questions on skew and data interchange wrt scaling in section 2. (poor impl), issues others supposedly have solved. Has anyone run into those problems with MapReduce? Are they not important when using MapReduce in the "real world"?
These days, hardly any user enters queries in the form of natural language questions, judging from log files. That was different a couple of years ago.
Just like "Click here to do X" isn't used as much on Web pages anymore. People now tend to know that they can click on underlined text to find out more.
A phrase is part of a sentence. WP
My Book(TM) World Edition(TM)
What it holds:
Up to 285,000 digital photos
Up to 250,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 25,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 100 hours of HD video
Woodward won't like Bernstein giving the source to the public.
I didn't know about how people are charged in America, so this was interesting to me. The sheer number of text messages sent by typical teenagers was also a point of interest.
The font size is normal. If you consider that text long, how did you manage to get through school, let a alone a typical Slashdot comments page? As for the lack of pictures: this is not kindergarten. Nobody needs those symbolic images used in typical online news articles that never add anything to the story (a candidate in this case: a picture of someone using a cellphone).
Gee you must have some really good stuff as you have also said Wikipedia copied some of your site.
Someone's a little cranky?
But yes, I do, and both is probably true for anyone with a site running with original content for a couple of years.
how about a link to all the wonderful stuff of yours?
I'm not here to plug my site. You'll have to trust me on this one.
Um, welcome to the Internet?
By no means is this is a China-only issue. It happens all the time in Western countries.
No doubt about it. But the story asked about personal experiences. I provided mine.
If you're complaint is they're harder to deal with because they speak Chinese, that's mildly ridiculous.
The problem was more about me not speaking Chinese.
Besides, if I decided to take action I'm quite certain that indeed it would be more difficult to do compared with someone from the US.
Someone has copied a number of pages from my site. A link to my original URL was included, though. When I finally found a mail address, the person replying was apologetic and claimed to only have done it because my pages were so slow to access from China. He/She removed the page, but there were copies later of other pages. I gave up asking for removal -- it cost me a lot of time just finding the mail address in that case. Everything is in Chinese. It's a bit annoying, but there's not much I think I can do and I don't think anyone's trying to steal from me.
I remember reading about the beginning of the airing of Sesame Street in Germany in 1972, and how there were complaints about how bad a role model Oscar living in a trash can is for children. Something like that might be suitable for the USA (back then and sometimes even today the narrow-minded's scapegoat for horrible developments in society), but not in good old clean Germany.
... repeating ...
Sigh. History
On the upside, it will probably be fine 35 years from now.
Nobody knows how long exactly the service is made available. Please do some long-term thinking before using this, esp. in public forums. More than once, I couldn't follow those stupid mini URLs for whatever reason. They're just bad. More criticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL#Criticism.
Actually, you can notify Wikipedia of copyright violations. They're usually pretty good about following up.
I know, but it wasn't a 1:1 copy and I didn't want to bitch. I also didn't care that much, and I have received a lot from Wikipedia. In the end, with my (grandparent) posting I wanted to point out that cause and effect aren't always as clear as they seem to be, I used my personal experience only as a case in point, not to complain.
As for how to know which came first, one way is with The Wayback Machine.
Yep, that's what I meant with archive.org. It's not that reliable in terms of coverage.
There are (or were) at least two articles in Wikipedia that are my texts (from my site) with slight variations on sentences. So whoever visits those Wikipedia articles (or did so in the past) and then my pages must come to the conclusion that I stole the stuff from Wikipedia without giving credit. I can't even prove that because I don't have a public version history, and archive.org is spotty when it comes to my site.
In this case (Wiley book) the articles were there way before the book, so the case seems to be clear, but in general, I recommend to keep an open mind about who copied where.
Actually, in Germany it's the beginning of the carnival session, with people putting on costumes and getting drunk in the streets in the morning (at 11:11 am, November 11th = 11/11, something about the "craziness" of the numbers), cf. Wikipedia. This custom precedes the two world wars, and it's not celebrated by everyone, but if you ask someone about November 11th in Germany, this will most likely be what they think of.
Germany has a Volkstrauertag, which is also in November.
To me, the Netherlands and Israel are two prime examples of countries known for their high level of English literacy. Why wouldn't they just use English but rely on an automated translator?
You can debate DJB's personal approach to security, but you cannot fault his priorities.
While his emphasis on security is commendable, the various problems with qmail (as others have pointed out) make it less or not at all usable. If the secure software isn't used, nobody wins. To put it differently, he places usability at such a low level that the security bonus of his software is outweighed. In the end, it does make his priorities appear questionable.
Does anybody run an ISP mail system with Qmail featuring predominately as MTA of choice?
RTFA: section 1.2 lists big users (source: qmail.org).
Big surprise, the big American company cannot compete on accuracy versus a search engine specialized on finding Norwegian results? This is surprising how exactly?
Google has good search technology, and search is automated so it doesn't really matter whether the text is Norwegian or English. In Germany Google has a market share of over 90 percent although there certainly are contenders and there is money to be made, but Google is almost a monopoly. Could be the same in Norway or Russia, but apparently isn't.
The question remains, is this a technology or a marketing issue (better search or better brand recognition)?
they don't have the internet in north dakota!
Do the tubes freeze in the wintertime?
I can't think of a single site that I found through google.
Most people don't care about sites, it's about single pages relevant to the query.
I'm pretty sure many visitors don't even fully understand the concept of a site, given the referer search terms of the type www term1 term2 that lead people to my site (term1 and term2 not being part of my domain). They just learned that typing stuff into Google gets them to interesting places.
What makes you think Germany would do that? Germany has rather harsh laws to protect personal privacy. Forcing people to reveal stuff about themselves to the world doesn't really fit into that.
Who places what types of meta tags in the documents? I don't understand the requirements.
Generally, Lucene does a good job. It's easy to learn and performance was fine for me and my data (~ 2 GB of textual documents).