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Actually, to be exact, Yahoo bought Inktomi. Overture bought Altavista and Alltheweb. Yahoo then bought Overture.
With algorithms from three very good search engines under its belt in addition to its own directory data, Yahoo later announced it is foregoing its relationship with Google. Coincidence? Of course not.
For what it is worth, my search results from Yahoo is just as good as the ones from Google, sometimes better, sometimes worse. It seems like the only place where you can got poor search results nowadays is from MSN search!
I can confirm that having a degree from a prestigious school can definitely open doors for you. This comes from the brand recognition and the networking system i.e. graduate from one Ivy League school and you will be lumped in with alumni the other six Ivy League schools and their equivalents like Stanford, MIT, CalTech, etc.
However, once that door is opened, the rest is up to you. That is, 1) your work experience, 2) the rate you adapt and learn, and 3) your attitude and personality.
I am in a Fortune 500 internet company (market cap = US$50B) and everything I learned about technology (SQL, OLAP, datawarehousing) I learned on the job.
Caveat: I am not a programmer and my degree is a BS in chemisty and Asian Studies.
Frankly I'm shocked at how many geeks I know who are OK with the fact that their $60 game will expire at some point in the future.
Frankly, I too am shocked at how many people I know who are OK with the fact that their $50-$500 pair of shoe will wear out at some point in the future. Or at the people who pay $10 to see a movie which is not guaranteed to be good or memorable beyond the time you spent in the theater.
Where does all this "I deserve such and such" attitude come from?
I do not have any additional insights on >800mbps FW but a major reason why that has yet to be developed for commercial use is even the fastest HD array cannot supply data at 3200 mbps (excluding whatever the military is up to in their secret lab).
And once VC investments come in, they would most certainly insist on an IPO, because that increases their profit margins, too.
B.S. The new paradigm is to flip it quick i.e. Lookout sells to MSN, Oddpost to Yahoo, (insert name here) to Cisco instead of waiting for the possibility of an eventual IPO.
If you VC is insist on you going IPO, then your VC is an idiot and so are you for succumbing to quick cash.
Many Mac users, which I am one, will rationalize the performance of Macs to no end i.e. my G3 400 is so blazing faaaaast so that it smokes a a 3.2 ghz with hyperthreading!
Go to any Mac forums (Appleinsider, Macnn, etc) you will see how people write about how each OS point release makes their system feel "snappier" because OS X, while looking great with Quartz Extreme rendering, is GPU/CPU intensive.
So while G5 may be better than the standard offerings, G5 1.8ghz cannot beat 3.4ghz P4. Show me some benchmarks instead of this "I feel" stuff.
That's your fault for getting upset by Dvorak.
He is a professional troll. His job is to get various groups riled by his words which generate readership ("What will that idiot say next?") and thus generate revenue (subscriptions, magazine sales, ad revenue, etc).
Dvorak is very good at what he is being paid to do. You provided a perfect example.
Yahoo itself was a search engine company/portal and with its acqusition of Overture, it now also incorporates technology and algorithms from Altavista and Inktomi as well.
I am not surprised at all that Yahoo's search results are just as good as Google's, if not better.
A little bit late to the game but the Yahoo! Search interface at http://search.yahoo.com/ is almost as clean as Google's.
Yahoo's search results, supplied by algorithms combined from the once-superior Yahoo, Altavista, and Inktomi, is in my opinion (and many search engine watchers too) just as good as Google's too.
As for their music acqusition, personaly I use iTunes. I look forward to see what Google does next. Picasa/Hello are pretty good acquisitions.
Pressing the letter "T" while booting will boot the computer into "target disc mode". From the mode, you can connect that laptop to any Mac with firewire and it will automatically mount and be available as an HD on the desktop.
Used Mac sells more not because a Mac's inherently worth is higher.
It is due to 1) the high price one originally paid for the Mac, 2) the even higher price of a new Mac, and 3) the limited supply to begin worth (not enough G5s or the 1.42ghz G4s, for example)
Hello is great and its integration into Picasa and Blogger is just amazing.
Why is Hello so great? Sometimes when you IM a person, you want to do more than just exchanging plain text (not that there is something wrong with that!) i.e. you may want to share with the person what you did today, what you had for lunch, whom did you meet and so on. With phone/digital/web cameras, this is infinitely possible.
In addition, exchanging photos allows a more personal communication without using webcams which has its own list of pros (porn!) and cons (bandwidth, quality, and sometimes you are not just ready to see another person).
Hello is not perfect, of course. It has no other platform support except for Windows. No interoperatability to other IM clients. But it is simple to use and uncluttered, just like the other Google products.
Apple does QA testing? Sure, but they are hardly better than any other companies out there.
(Advance apologies for not knowing how to linkify.)
Apple pulls iPhoto 4.0.2 update (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2004/08/2004080216 4637.shtml)
OS X 10.3.x - Apple waits 3+ months to fix security flaw that allows the help app to be launched and execute any command such as rm -f (http://www.macnn.com/news/24722)
OS X 10.3 erases FireWire drives (http://www.macfixit.com/staticpages/index.php?pag e=20031110092416682)
OS X 10.2.8 update pulled due to issues (http://www.macnn.com/news/21257)
OS X 10.2.4 eats batteries and reset dates (http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2003031 2020856258)
Mass recall of iBook due to logic board failure (http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/)
There are other issues like peeling paint of TiBooks, hum from 1st generation G5s, windtunnel G4s, etc.
I would not trade my iBook for anything else except for a newer Apple laptop, but when it comes to QA, Apple is hardly infallible.
Finally: This particular settlement costs Google $0.00.
Your opinion is about as valuable as an accountant's opinion on network security implmentation.
Issues shares cost Google money, which is why Google had to absorb a quarterly charge of $250-$300 million. This will make Google lose money for the quarter - the quarter in which they planned to go public. For your information, in Q3 of 2003, Google only earned $20.4 million.
Yahoo, however, will increase its stake in Google to 4%. It has already announced that it will likely sell a large percentage; this will make Yahoo's Q3 look great compared to Google's. The sell-off is likely to decrease Google's stock price further, if indeed Google does go public when it had planned. Yahoo will also forever be able to say Google's ad technology is based on theirs.
Lastly, search engine preference change. For a while, Yahoo! was on top. Altavista (now owned by Yahoo!, who also owns Imktomi) was once on top. Google is now the king. Who is to say in a few years, Toema, meta search engines, or even Yahoo! will not be on top?
If you think this is an "excellent busines sstaretgy" or Google, think again!
On Katie Tarbox's site, you can see in the lower banner that her book has been translated into multiple languages such as Chinese, Japanese, German, and others.
All of them feature the original title of katie.com except for the Chinese version whose title translates to Dream of the Internet Lover. Maybe the Chinese editors did their homework?
Fujistsu's Transmeta-based subnotes have consistent gotten more battery out of any laptops I have used or seen used, include Apple iBook which I own. Many people I know who uses the P-Lifebooks leave it unplugged (no AC adaptor, no ethernet) for an entire work day.
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With algorithms from three very good search engines under its belt in addition to its own directory data, Yahoo later announced it is foregoing its relationship with Google. Coincidence? Of course not.
For what it is worth, my search results from Yahoo is just as good as the ones from Google, sometimes better, sometimes worse. It seems like the only place where you can got poor search results nowadays is from MSN search!
And neither Toshiba's nor IBM's machines run BSD/OS X/Linux as stylish as Apple!
See http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/hardware.html
However, once that door is opened, the rest is up to you. That is, 1) your work experience, 2) the rate you adapt and learn, and 3) your attitude and personality.
I am in a Fortune 500 internet company (market cap = US$50B) and everything I learned about technology (SQL, OLAP, datawarehousing) I learned on the job.
Caveat: I am not a programmer and my degree is a BS in chemisty and Asian Studies.
Frankly, I too am shocked at how many people I know who are OK with the fact that their $50-$500 pair of shoe will wear out at some point in the future. Or at the people who pay $10 to see a movie which is not guaranteed to be good or memorable beyond the time you spent in the theater.
Where does all this "I deserve such and such" attitude come from?
I do not have any additional insights on >800mbps FW but a major reason why that has yet to be developed for commercial use is even the fastest HD array cannot supply data at 3200 mbps (excluding whatever the military is up to in their secret lab).
But you got to give her points for tenacity!
Do you think you could have waited one week for a machine to boot instead of assuming it died and reset/give up?
B.S. The new paradigm is to flip it quick i.e. Lookout sells to MSN, Oddpost to Yahoo, (insert name here) to Cisco instead of waiting for the possibility of an eventual IPO.
If you VC is insist on you going IPO, then your VC is an idiot and so are you for succumbing to quick cash.
Many Mac users, which I am one, will rationalize the performance of Macs to no end i.e. my G3 400 is so blazing faaaaast so that it smokes a a 3.2 ghz with hyperthreading!
Go to any Mac forums (Appleinsider, Macnn, etc) you will see how people write about how each OS point release makes their system feel "snappier" because OS X, while looking great with Quartz Extreme rendering, is GPU/CPU intensive.
So while G5 may be better than the standard offerings, G5 1.8ghz cannot beat 3.4ghz P4. Show me some benchmarks instead of this "I feel" stuff.
That's your fault for getting upset by Dvorak. He is a professional troll. His job is to get various groups riled by his words which generate readership ("What will that idiot say next?") and thus generate revenue (subscriptions, magazine sales, ad revenue, etc). Dvorak is very good at what he is being paid to do. You provided a perfect example.
A "Search Engine company"?
Yahoo itself was a search engine company/portal and with its acqusition of Overture, it now also incorporates technology and algorithms from Altavista and Inktomi as well.
I am not surprised at all that Yahoo's search results are just as good as Google's, if not better.
Kills two vaporwares with one product release!
Does the deditor not drun the dspell dchecker?
Oh yeah, I forgot, this is dSlashdot.
How is Yahoo's search engine sceond rate?
A little bit late to the game but the Yahoo! Search interface at http://search.yahoo.com/ is almost as clean as Google's.
Yahoo's search results, supplied by algorithms combined from the once-superior Yahoo, Altavista, and Inktomi, is in my opinion (and many search engine watchers too) just as good as Google's too.
As for their music acqusition, personaly I use iTunes. I look forward to see what Google does next. Picasa/Hello are pretty good acquisitions.
Pressing the letter "T" while booting will boot the computer into "target disc mode". From the mode, you can connect that laptop to any Mac with firewire and it will automatically mount and be available as an HD on the desktop.
Before anyone chimes in with audiophile Nazi esoteric shit ($10k speaker cables, anyone?), my Magnepan planars are only $500 a pair.
It is due to 1) the high price one originally paid for the Mac, 2) the even higher price of a new Mac, and 3) the limited supply to begin worth (not enough G5s or the 1.42ghz G4s, for example)
Many PDAs, like the Dell Axim, use the 400mhz XScale CPU. It gets warm but never hot. More details can be found at Intel.
I am surprised they did not go with the 624Mhz XScale.
Why is Hello so great? Sometimes when you IM a person, you want to do more than just exchanging plain text (not that there is something wrong with that!) i.e. you may want to share with the person what you did today, what you had for lunch, whom did you meet and so on. With phone/digital/web cameras, this is infinitely possible.
In addition, exchanging photos allows a more personal communication without using webcams which has its own list of pros (porn!) and cons (bandwidth, quality, and sometimes you are not just ready to see another person).
Hello is not perfect, of course. It has no other platform support except for Windows. No interoperatability to other IM clients. But it is simple to use and uncluttered, just like the other Google products.
(Advance apologies for not knowing how to linkify.)
There are other issues like peeling paint of TiBooks, hum from 1st generation G5s, windtunnel G4s, etc.
I would not trade my iBook for anything else except for a newer Apple laptop, but when it comes to QA, Apple is hardly infallible.
Your opinion is about as valuable as an accountant's opinion on network security implmentation.
Issues shares cost Google money, which is why Google had to absorb a quarterly charge of $250-$300 million. This will make Google lose money for the quarter - the quarter in which they planned to go public. For your information, in Q3 of 2003, Google only earned $20.4 million.
Yahoo, however, will increase its stake in Google to 4%. It has already announced that it will likely sell a large percentage; this will make Yahoo's Q3 look great compared to Google's. The sell-off is likely to decrease Google's stock price further, if indeed Google does go public when it had planned. Yahoo will also forever be able to say Google's ad technology is based on theirs.
Lastly, search engine preference change. For a while, Yahoo! was on top. Altavista (now owned by Yahoo!, who also owns Imktomi) was once on top. Google is now the king. Who is to say in a few years, Toema, meta search engines, or even Yahoo! will not be on top?
If you think this is an "excellent busines sstaretgy" or Google, think again!
Second, the book looks like it is in traditional Chinese, which means it would have been published for the Taiwan and Hong Kong market.
On Katie Tarbox's site, you can see in the lower banner that her book has been translated into multiple languages such as Chinese, Japanese, German, and others.
All of them feature the original title of katie.com except for the Chinese version whose title translates to Dream of the Internet Lover. Maybe the Chinese editors did their homework?
Fujistsu's Transmeta-based subnotes have consistent gotten more battery out of any laptops I have used or seen used, include Apple iBook which I own. Many people I know who uses the P-Lifebooks leave it unplugged (no AC adaptor, no ethernet) for an entire work day.
Why state Yahoo and MSN are inflated with Overture's PPC traffic? Have you discounted Adsense traffic from Google?
Symbian is an OS.
Sybianb is anything but an OS.
Look it up!