With 261,000 hard drives, and each hard drive to say operate for 250,000 hours mean-time between failures, there could be a disk failure about each hour within the system!!
So what is the ongoing cost of maintenance? Let alone the cost of installing in the first place!!
Only 20% of the traffic in any of the Google listed sites comes from Google. It is absolutely poppycock to say that a site disappears if it is not listed in Google. At the worst, a site suffers only 20% traffic down-grade if not listed in Google!!!!
There are loads of other ways to get traffic besides being listed in Google -- such as getting a link from other large sites, searches completed through the new RSS search engine Feedster, minor directories, forums, and many, many more.
If your site is existing only on Google referrals, you had better close down as you are not part of the overall world community of websites! Belong to the community, link our fequently, quote other sites on your site, and link into the community -- I guarantee then the importance of Google to your site will be less than 20% of your traffic!!
What swb says is fine. However, I am being spammed by people living in countries outside the reach of the USA government.
We need stronger policies for ISPs regarless of where they are and what they must do to control their customers. Government control will not work as many governments who have offending SPAMMERS do not talk to the US government.
However, for an ISP to get access to the Internet, she/he has to gain that access from a known Internet supplier outside her/his country. If the ISP has a bad SPAMMER, then the ISP should be the one to discipline the customer or the ISP gets cut off.
Where the world has changed since Google/search engines and the Internet is
that much of that public information was only available physically to people who
fronted up to those institutions.
Now this information that is on public record is available for people
worldwide. Through the effectiveness of Google and other search engines, I can
now see more public information many countries of the world. Effectively
location ensured some sort of International privacy in my own home country.
I think there needs to be alternative ways of handling some information --
the online search database such as Google has a use by date for certain types of
public information. We seem to be stuck on search -- what about other models of
providing information so that certain levels of privacy can be maintained.
Work like anything to get 1,000,000 users in blogger.com. Then, have those million or so people search the Internet for fav's and cuties and best info etc.
See how people are voting in real-time at the backend. And there we have the important sites of the hour etc.
Better than page rank which is relatively static -- with something like this we get minute-by-minute voting for sites! And Google has scouts working on their own blogs creating this voting bubble!
Google News at the present time is dependant on about 4,000 news sites of which Google has no control. There is a lot of newsworthy stuff in blogs, particularly if Google can attract key businesses, organizations and others.
This brings about a new type of content organization -- Google's Alternative News -- not dependant on the other news organizations.
Now couple these ideas with what jefu is saying, Google has some real muscle in the world of information. Coupled with search engine, news breaking on blogs, Google could have a million or so sources that can be automatically indexed, so people can search fresh seconds after the news has broken.
Sites like mine Google Village as a Bloogle could be indexed and on the main news page in seconds. Now I think there is the business model for Google. If each person pays for their News Site to have access to the Google-News-Machine . . . I know I would pay!
There are several angles this could take. One of the most significant I believe is linking Froogle with Blogger.
Have companies create a blog for each product/product line where people get hints, tricks, tips on using a particular product, get news about its update etc.
We have not seen blogs go business yet and this is where the money is.
Now think of all the other business applications.
Most likely, build an interface to company internal systems and create a blog for each significant product that also links to Froogle and what better advertising medium. Froggle becomes an aggregator of products via Blogger?
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With 261,000 hard drives, and each hard drive to say operate for 250,000 hours mean-time between failures, there could be a disk failure about each hour within the system!! So what is the ongoing cost of maintenance? Let alone the cost of installing in the first place!!
Only 20% of the traffic in any of the Google listed sites comes from Google. It is absolutely poppycock to say that a site disappears if it is not listed in Google. At the worst, a site suffers only 20% traffic down-grade if not listed in Google!!!! There are loads of other ways to get traffic besides being listed in Google -- such as getting a link from other large sites, searches completed through the new RSS search engine Feedster, minor directories, forums, and many, many more. If your site is existing only on Google referrals, you had better close down as you are not part of the overall world community of websites! Belong to the community, link our fequently, quote other sites on your site, and link into the community -- I guarantee then the importance of Google to your site will be less than 20% of your traffic!!
AllTheWeb does not have the fresh stuff Google has and does not have the completeness of Google. AllTheWeb is good but it simply does not have the content. See: AllTheWeb/FAST and Google: In Practice AllTheWeb Best!!
What swb says is fine. However, I am being spammed by people living in countries outside the reach of the USA government.
We need stronger policies for ISPs regarless of where they are and what they must do to control their customers. Government control will not work as many governments who have offending SPAMMERS do not talk to the US government.
However, for an ISP to get access to the Internet, she/he has to gain that access from a known Internet supplier outside her/his country. If the ISP has a bad SPAMMER, then the ISP should be the one to discipline the customer or the ISP gets cut off.
Where the world has changed since Google/search engines and the Internet is that much of that public information was only available physically to people who fronted up to those institutions.
Now this information that is on public record is available for people worldwide. Through the effectiveness of Google and other search engines, I can now see more public information many countries of the world. Effectively location ensured some sort of International privacy in my own home country.
I think there needs to be alternative ways of handling some information -- the online search database such as Google has a use by date for certain types of public information. We seem to be stuck on search -- what about other models of providing information so that certain levels of privacy can be maintained.
See also: Google, Privacy and Alternative Models of Information Management.
WOW!
Work like anything to get 1,000,000 users in blogger.com. Then, have those million or so people search the Internet for fav's and cuties and best info etc.
See how people are voting in real-time at the backend. And there we have the important sites of the hour etc.
Better than page rank which is relatively static -- with something like this we get minute-by-minute voting for sites! And Google has scouts working on their own blogs creating this voting bubble!
GREAT CONCEPT!
How does Google make money out of this?
Google News at the present time is dependant on about 4,000 news sites of which Google has no control. There is a lot of newsworthy stuff in blogs, particularly if Google can attract key businesses, organizations and others.
This brings about a new type of content organization -- Google's Alternative News -- not dependant on the other news organizations.
Now couple these ideas with what jefu is saying, Google has some real muscle in the world of information. Coupled with search engine, news breaking on blogs, Google could have a million or so sources that can be automatically indexed, so people can search fresh seconds after the news has broken.
Sites like mine Google Village as a Bloogle could be indexed and on the main news page in seconds. Now I think there is the business model for Google. If each person pays for their News Site to have access to the Google-News-Machine . . . I know I would pay!
There are several angles this could take. One of the most significant I believe is linking Froogle with Blogger. Have companies create a blog for each product/product line where people get hints, tricks, tips on using a particular product, get news about its update etc. We have not seen blogs go business yet and this is where the money is. Now think of all the other business applications.
Most likely, build an interface to company internal systems and create a blog for each significant product that also links to Froogle and what better advertising medium. Froggle becomes an aggregator of products via Blogger?