I don't understand why they need to buy an engine. It may be shortsighted of me, but building one would probably cost less and could be done failry quickly.
I built a small one and there only seems to be two major components of a search engine service (yes I realize this is very simplistic). The spidering of content (done with sheer horespower) and an indexing and the search algorithm. Seems fairly straightforward to me. What I learned was that the algorithm and indexing was not the problem but the processing power needed to spider the entire net efficiently.
""Patent examiners have from 8 to 25 hours to read and understand each application, search for prior art, evaluate patentability, communicate with the applicant, work out necessary revisions, and reach and write up conclusions."
That is 7.5-24.5 hours more than they need when a simple google query returns more prior art than would be needed.
"they plan to distribute it around the internet in a similar way to the notorious Napster software that got music file-sharing under way"
The main problem with Napster and the reason why it failed was because it kept a centralized list of files available, so they could simply shut down those servers.
The newer p2p clients do not have this centralized list, but are truly distributed.
I've heard this comparison a couple of times before and it is just wrong.
I use Vonage and it is great, but I have become scared from pending/proposed legislation.
Looking at the history of the net, everything that lawmakers or big companies try to regulate, only makes that technology evolve faster.
If Napster had not gotten its butt kicked, then everyone would have been dl'ing just music from a centralized listing server for the past few years, instead, they forced it to evolve into a de-centralized network that you can download everything from.
Same will happen here hopefully. I used to be scared that they could prevent the free flow of information on the net, but so far, the net has been one step ahead.
1. Donuts on eBay Find donuts at low prices. With over 5 million items for sale every day, you'll find all kinds of unique things on eBay - the World's Online Marketplace. www.ebay.com
"Though" still works, you example by itself fails (as do most jumbled words) but in a normal sentence structure, or in a fmailiar phrase, it works fine:
Well, maybe not BIG business, but I know of several people who make a good living from mistyped url's.
If site www.xyz.com has a $10 referral bonus, these people will buy www.xyx.com and do a redirect the poor-typing surfer to the correct wite with their affiliate code included. I'm sure the/. editorial team alone has filled a few pockets of these people given their typing skillz.
This makes me happy as we run a startup service trying to compete with them. PayLoadz. Now we just have to get rid of those damn Amazon buggers before they patent it!
I love the headline posted here at/.: "Supersonic Flight Without The Sonic Boom"
Which is a complete lie when you read the first paragraph of the article stating that they simply reduced the boom created, not eliminated. Fox News' web site does this too.
There is NO way to eliminate a sonic boom as long as the aircraft has either mass or creates friction. It is very doubtful that they are close to creating a massless, frictionless airplane;-)
I use vonage as a replacement for my house line. I added a second vonage number for faxing and it works perfectly (except during the blackout).
I have a feeling that many of the things that make this service cool could be affected by this. Like: - Being able to have a number in any area code regardless of where you live - Being able to plug your phone into any broadband line anywhere and have the same number you have at home.
Those are key and I can see them being screwed by this type of regulation.
I can't see this OS project getting too much traction. One quickly realizes when setting out to build a search engine, that it takes a ton of computing power in the means of pipe, drive space, and database space. I found out the hard way.
It may be fun for some small intranet stuff though....
/.ing moves from the web, right into your own mailbox! All the fun of crushing someone elses website without all of the work of clicking those tiresome links.
Note to self: Move web site off of modded GameBoy running apache.
I know the group that must have performed this study, they're the same that stated that P2P networks cost the music industry $2 billion a year. I think they used to run a few S & L's during the 80's.
...failed at just about everything before becoming president. You can't innovate without failure (opens door for innovation comment trolls). The article discusses technologies that they DID help pioneer, not just the ones they usurped.
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A more unscrupulous method would be to go to the second pick-up window after paying, look in your food bag and perform the following:
You: "You forgot my apple pie I ordered" Employee: "We show you just ordered an extra value meal #3 (quater pounder [royale w/cheese]) You: I said "And an apple pie also!"
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I don't understand why they need to buy an engine. It may be shortsighted of me, but building one would probably cost less and could be done failry quickly.
I built a small one and there only seems to be two major components of a search engine service (yes I realize this is very simplistic). The spidering of content (done with sheer horespower) and an indexing and the search algorithm. Seems fairly straightforward to me. What I learned was that the algorithm and indexing was not the problem but the processing power needed to spider the entire net efficiently.
That why there is www.archive.org :-)
""Patent examiners have from 8 to 25 hours to read and understand each application, search for prior art, evaluate patentability, communicate with the applicant, work out necessary revisions, and reach and write up conclusions."
That is 7.5-24.5 hours more than they need when a simple google query returns more prior art than would be needed.
Helium is the preferred method.
Search for hemlock society.
No GF is no reason to kill oneself anyway.
http://www.google-watch.org/
Considering we use it more than any other site...
"they plan to distribute it around the internet in a similar way to the notorious Napster software that got music file-sharing under way"
The main problem with Napster and the reason why it failed was because it kept a centralized list of files available, so they could simply shut down those servers.
The newer p2p clients do not have this centralized list, but are truly distributed.
I've heard this comparison a couple of times before and it is just wrong.
I use Vonage and it is great, but I have become scared from pending/proposed legislation.
Looking at the history of the net, everything that lawmakers or big companies try to regulate, only makes that technology evolve faster.
If Napster had not gotten its butt kicked, then everyone would have been dl'ing just music from a centralized listing server for the past few years, instead, they forced it to evolve into a de-centralized network that you can download everything from.
Same will happen here hopefully. I used to be scared that they could prevent the free flow of information on the net, but so far, the net has been one step ahead.
How could the first post in a thread be modded as redundant?
LOL! First result:
1. Donuts on eBay
Find donuts at low prices. With over 5 million items for sale every day, you'll find all kinds of unique things on eBay - the World's Online Marketplace.
www.ebay.com
Donuts
"Though" still works, you example by itself fails (as do most jumbled words) but in a normal sentence structure, or in a fmailiar phrase, it works fine:
Turhgoh teh lkoonig galss
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"The film was shelved for money reason"
Are you sure that is wasn't shelved because Dali was crazier than a shithouse rat? Even by 1947 standards.
Well, maybe not BIG business, but I know of several people who make a good living from mistyped url's.
/. editorial team alone has filled a few pockets of these people given their typing skillz.
If site www.xyz.com has a $10 referral bonus, these people will buy www.xyx.com and do a redirect the poor-typing surfer to the correct wite with their affiliate code included.
I'm sure the
Cool, eh?
This makes me happy as we run a startup service trying to compete with them. PayLoadz. Now we just have to get rid of those damn Amazon buggers before they patent it!
I love the headline posted here at /.:
;-)
"Supersonic Flight Without The Sonic Boom"
Which is a complete lie when you read the first paragraph of the article stating that they simply reduced the boom created, not eliminated. Fox News' web site does this too.
There is NO way to eliminate a sonic boom as long as the aircraft has either mass or creates friction. It is very doubtful that they are close to creating a massless, frictionless airplane
His is just 20,000,000,000 sided instead of 20, and he gets +19,000,000,000 HP.
The funniest thing I have ever read on /.!
I use vonage as a replacement for my house line. I added a second vonage number for faxing and it works perfectly (except during the blackout).
I have a feeling that many of the things that make this service cool could be affected by this.
Like:
- Being able to have a number in any area code regardless of where you live
- Being able to plug your phone into any broadband line anywhere and have the same number you have at home.
Those are key and I can see them being screwed by this type of regulation.
"I'd have far less reservations about it if Google was behind it."
Google is a great search index, but they are very, very evil in many things they do:
http://www.google-watch.org
I can't see this OS project getting too much traction. One quickly realizes when setting out to build a search engine, that it takes a ton of computing power in the means of pipe, drive space, and database space. I found out the hard way.
It may be fun for some small intranet stuff though....
/.ing moves from the web, right into your own mailbox! All the fun of crushing someone elses website without all of the work of clicking those tiresome links.
Note to self: Move web site off of modded GameBoy running apache.
I know the group that must have performed this study, they're the same that stated that P2P networks cost the music industry $2 billion a year.
I think they used to run a few S & L's during the 80's.
http://toastytech.com/guis/bob2.html
Glad it failed...
...failed at just about everything before becoming president.
You can't innovate without failure (opens door for innovation comment trolls). The article discusses technologies that they DID help pioneer, not just the ones they usurped.
A more unscrupulous method would be to go to the second pick-up window after paying, look in your food bag and perform the following:
You: "You forgot my apple pie I ordered"
Employee: "We show you just ordered an extra value meal #3 (quater pounder [royale w/cheese])
You: I said "And an apple pie also!"
Employee: *gets apple pie free of charge
Simple as that.