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- Search Engine
- Software that searches for data based on some criteria. Although search engines have been around for decades, they were brought to the forefront after the Web exploded onto the...
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- PopularityChecker (exe)
- PopularityChecker is a link popularity checker that checks URL's for Google Pagerank, Dmoz listing, Alexa Traffic Rank, and the number of backlinks from other Web sites. You can add any number of URL's for the program to check. PopularityChecker uses all the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN,...
- Tags: Alexa Internet Inc., Search Engine, PageRank, PopularityChecker, Search
- Software downloads 2007-04-16
- Google PageRank: Biased and fundamentally flawed?
- Is the infamous Google PageRank anti-democratic? Jakob Nielsen says it like it is, not how people want to believe it is. His “Search Engines as Leeches on the Web” post from earlier in the year is a must-read cutting-through-the-hype antidote to search engine Google worship:Search engines extract too much of...
- Tags: participation inequality, Web
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- PageRank assassination and other nefarious acts of competitive online warfare
- I'm not an advocate of search engine optimisation techniques--beyond the basics. Because I believe you should optimize your site for your customers and not the spiderbots. Let the search engines optimize themselves to find the right content--it's their job.However, the techniques of search engine optimization have potential application in...
- Tags: PageRank assassination, PageRank, search engine optimization
- Blog posts 2006-04-23
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- Ballmer does Windows
- Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate for...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson left, also known as the "Spam King, made a run for it when his wife visited him last Sunday and is now officially...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service
- Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...
- Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 166 Frames of Fame
- "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop artist was an optimist. Now, anyone and everyone who wants...
- Tags: Blog, Post, Gawker, Warhol, Blogging, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- WordSmart Toolbar (zip)
- The WordSmart tool bar provides users direct access to the Word of the Day, WordSmart Challenge, and the new WordSmart 5.0 site. This tool bar includes great features like Google search, a Pop-Up Blocker, RSS Reader, Zoom In / Out features, a link to Yahoo, and access to various news...
- Tags: Tool, WordSmart, Productivity, RSS, Microsoft Word, Internet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- The evolution of search over traditional BIIT / Operations Search and BIAh yes, the "democratization" of IT and data analysis. I think that it’s clear that the borders between search and BI are blurring and that business decision makers across every organization want instant access to the data that they...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, SEARCH, cloud computing, business intelligence
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft
- The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Google shows off its bench
- The vision of Larry Page and Sergey Brin still holds. In a word, search. In another word, find. Maybe its cloud will bring a third word, host, but so far it is mainly a set of services built around that one word, search, again. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Bench, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Top US search engines in May 2008
- Core Search Entity Apr-08 May-08 Growth Total Core Search 10,582 10,777 2% Google Sites 6,514 6,664 2% Yahoo! Sites 2,159 2,221 3% Microsoft Sites 961 920 -4% AOL LLC 491 486 -1% Ask Network 458 486 6% ...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...
- Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...
- Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio
- News items 2008-07-22
- File Renamer Turbo (exe)
- File Renamer Turbo is a cutting edge file renaming tool that will make your life easier. If you need to rename multiple files, folders or set the ID3 tags of MP3 files or the tags of WMA, M4A, OGG, FLAC, APE and MPC files, this program will do the job...
- Tags: Tag, Kristanix Software, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Jewel Quest 3 (exe)
- Rupert and Emma have finally settled down and opened a Museum to display their many new found artifacts. While playing with a mysterious jewel board, their daughter Natalie unknowingly pops open a secret compartment. Suddenly, the air is filled with a cloud of spores, and Natalie's vision begins to fade....
- Tags: Board, Daughter, Clue, SpinTop Games, Natalie, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- InstantNavigator for OneNote (zip)
- InstantNavigator is a productivity plug-in that enhances Microsoft OneNote with an instant quick-as-you-type search capability. Once installed, InstantNavigator lets you find a note in much the same way as Vista Instant Search just start typing the first letters of a keyword into the search box and get the note youre...
- Tags: Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, ExtraMind Systems, InstantNavigator, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
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