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Google’s Semantic Search, a step towards future
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Overview on Cloud based DNS hosting
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.XXX a total failure of policy & strategy yet heavy cash maker
.XXX domain name which recently goes on for public sale…
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Google’s cleanup marathon continues
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Google’s Semantic Search, a step towards future
.XXX a total failure of policy & strategy yet heavy cash maker
.XXX domain name which recently goes on for public sale proving to be one of the hot commodities on the net. Since the first .xxx URLs were released on restricted sale in September there have been some 100,000 purchases of the domain names. According to ICANN .XXX sites supposed to be a safer alternative to those available online at present and that they will benefit from daily malware scanning from security protection software. But a lot of expert believes that this creating a “monopoly” and is “anti-competitive”. In theory grouping porn sites together under the .xxx domain for the purpose of providing simultaneously protection of porn-viewers and the protection of those who don’t want porn is certainly very welcoming. For instances it is easier to filter them out when they are under one single domain name extension, to prevent kids from accessing porn. And for porn lovers their sites will be less contaminated by malware & virus as all .XXX sites will be frequently scanned for malware & viruses. So the theory seems makes everyone happy. But alas the theory is less realistic than actual reality we face. A lot of people did support .XXX moves, still a lot of…
Google’s cleanup marathon continues
Google over the years experimented with lots of products with different paradigm. Some were to give the user more complete web experience one way or another relate to its flagship products like – Gmail, Search engine, Chrome, Analytics. On the other hand some were simply its own version of popular products to give others run for their money or just to prove we can do better. It even acquires several products over the year – like most software giants do, to expand its product base. But as we all know you can’t be good at everything, some of Google’s experiment paid off some didn’t, and some didn’t even make it to count as viable product. Well that’s the game isn’t it, keep innovating –otherwise you won’t keep up with the flow of tide of technology. So what you do when you have lots of nonproductive stuffs in the house? You either do a garage sell or through it away right? For companies such as Google they either sell their products that’s not making that much of buck (which happens not so often, as products failed to generate buzz to be considered as failed products) or just shut it down and…
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Facebook’s Recommended Subscriptions
About two weeks ago when Facebook unveiled it’s Recommended Subscriptions Page Browser, it was just another FB lab experiment to test out how user take it. But it turned out to be a massive featured recommendation engine that silently harnessed the 500 million users recommendations. The potential for that sort of user power behind any recommendation engine is killer, and the fact is it’s FB we are talking about. Page Browser seems completely standalone (well at least for now), you have to directly navigate in there rather than via any navigation link from main interface (user must be logged in though). Facebook supply recommendation based on user’s age, profile data, location, gender etc. FB recommendations will be highlighted as big and bold icons. User has complete freedom of liking or disliking FB recommendations. Simple and clean interaction is obviously appealing. Since the recommendations are based on FB’s user profiling, every users got somewhat unique recommendations, well on the side it will also show friends who got similar recommendation like you. It’s a way of connecting people, isn’t it? Facebook recommendation doesn’t necessarily is based on something that user searched or joined or shared but is more of a things user…
ICANN approves .XXX domain name
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the sole authority for domain names and categories globally finally after years of discussion approved (on conditions) creation of .XXX TLD (top label domain) alongside already existing .com, .net, .org etc. Well this approval of creation of virtual red-light district wasn’t well received by everyone. Some members of the pornography industry and the Christian conservative lobby voiced concerns for this move by ICANN that will create a dedicated virtual red-light district. The long-awaited decision comes at the end of vigorous lobby by companies who target to rage huge money by monopolize selling of .XXX domain names. ICM Registry, which is set to make $30 million a year from the new domain addresses, said it has 110,000 pre-sales from sites keen to adopt the .XXX domain. But porno industry front runners are divided over whether or not there is actually a need for a dedicated virtual red-light district. This proposal for .XXX was denied by ICANN three years ago. Well ICM registry the proposer seems got good backing this time to make it happen. Well you won’t find the .XXX domain for purchase just right yet. According to ICANN there are still several…
Google Caffeine, Search revolution
Most anticipated “Caffeine”, Google’s new Web indexing system has been switched on, which promises to deliver results 50 percent faster. This new architecture was introduced a month after Microsoft gained in the search war by extending its new Bing search engine to all of Yahoo’s Web properties. The Yahoo Web portal is the number two player in search. Under the old system, Google would crawl the entire Web to update large batches of Web pages in its index. Updates of individual pages in a batch could not be made available until the entire batch was updated, which meant there was a significant delay between when Google found or updated a page and made it available to the user. On the contrary with Caffeine, Google now crawls the Web in smaller portions and updates its index on a continuous basis. This is very good news for true user experience, as end users will be able to access more relevant and fresher search result, merrier for content publishers as this will allow their users to know fresher contents soon after publishing. All good except for one group of people, the SEO positioning guys just got kicked in their balls by this new…
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