Technologies behind Google ranking (16)
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In my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See "Modern Information Retrieval: ...
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shuman said:
Some good explanations of the technical challenges Google search handles.
Automating Processes by observing the Pattern (1)
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It's been said time and again that The REAL Programmer automates his job that they are Long Term Life Planners and have Attention to DetailHere is just an example of ways in which one can automate processes.I use Seagull Framework for developing faster, secure and feature rich Web based Applications Today, I had to update the Database to fill some blank columns in a table named sgl_permisionI first tried to edit them through the Seagull's ...
Google Docs Templates (2)
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It's so difficult to start with a blank document, especially when it should have a standard format. Now you can use one of the 309 templates from the new Google Docs directory as a starting point for your timesheets, resumes, invoices, photo albums or party invitations."A template gives you a quick start towards creating a document, spreadsheet, or presentation. Each template has boilerplate content and preset design styles that are meant to be reused. (...) ...
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This makes Google Docs even more useful! But don't forget to have a look at zoho.com
Portable Gmail Contacts (6)
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If you use Gmail, many Google services have access to your contacts list and you can easily add addresses using autocomplete or from a contact picker. But what happens when you need to enter an email address on a site that's not from Google? Many news sites have options to send a link to your friends and sometimes this is more convenient than loading Gmail and pasting a link to the article.Google Contacts Autocomplete is ...
Google Docs in Full Screen (1)
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If you need more space to edit your documents in Google Docs or if you want to read a document, there's now a full-screen mode that hides the menus and the toolbar. Just select View > Full-screen mode or type Ctrl-Shift-F to go into full-screen mode. Unfortunately, the same shortcut is also used by the Web Developer extension to display element information, but you can change it in the options.Since you no longer have access ...
Getting country , city name from IP address in PHP (1)
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Yesterday, miaki asked me how can we get the country name from the IP address in PHP. Today, I’ve come up with the answer of this question. I’ve used the API from hostip.info to fetch the country name , city name and country code from the given IP address. I’ve mad this function in PHP which uses XML response from hostip.info and extracted country name, city name and country code using regular expression. Function to ...
Best Practices for Developing Scalable Web 2.0 Applications (1)
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This demo will show you the power of GigaSpaces' scaling, hot failover and self-healing capabilities. A sample Web application which uses Spring MVC and contains an AJAX web front-end and a GigaSpaces' backend will be scaled out. We will first deploy and run the GigaSpaces' backend on a single laptop and then on multiple machines on Amazon EC2, without changing a single line of code.
Cleanup your html with JQuery (1)
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It seems like some design bureaus are just hellbent on making it difficult for developers to realise their designs via html/css. I am currently trying to convert some design images into usable html/css, and in one case I had to make a box with rounded corners, all borders had a shaded shadow, the inner content had a gradient background and the box was required to handle dynamic width. The only thing that makes this tricky ...
How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Past (2)
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Do you have a trophy room? This is a place where you keep your various trophies, certificates, award plaques, autographed trinkets and other things that remind you of past accomplishments. This could be a fireplace mantle, space on a bookshelf, a downstairs room or a building depending on what you have been up to. If you have one of these, be careful to avoid getting stuck in the past. They tend to have common features ...
Google Getting Close to 70% of U.S. Search Market (3)
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According to the latest data from Hitwise, Google gained yet another percentage point on its biggest competitors last month and now accounts for more than 69.17% of U.S. searches. In the U.K. and Australia, Google's market share has climbed above 87%. This increase comes at a time when, according to Hitwise, more and more Internet users are also relying on search to navigate to key industry categories. As Google gained market share, every other major ...
Getting technorati ranking in PHP without using their API (1)
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Today, I was going through the Technorati API to find the rank of the blog using PHP. Those who doesn’t know about Technorati, Technorati is known as the authority for tracking, indexing and ranking the blog sytems. When I went through the Technorati Api, I found that it is not that hard to get the ranking of a blog which is indexed in Technorati.You need to get the developer API key from Technorati and use ...
Installing Grails in Ubuntu GNU/Linux Using Package Management Tools (1)
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"In my previous post I talked about setting up Grails development environment in GNU/Linux distributions by manually downloading the packages and configuring the environment variables. An easier, alternative way to install Groovy and Grails packages is to use the package management system of your favourite GNU/Linux distribution. The trade-off is that you have to accept the version of the packages that are available in your distribution’s repositories(apt-get) or you may have to compromise with the ...
Just crossed 1000 registered users! (1)
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Hello Folks, I thought I will share this wonderful news with you. We just crossed the 1000 mark last night. It was an amazing roller coaster ride over last 45 days since we have taken our new system LIVE. We have received an average of 20+ sign-ups every day! We got several suggestions which helped us in building our system, defining our policies and creating a more efficient system. Keep your suggestions coming in to ...
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There seems to have been a change in Rediff's (NSDQ: REDF) content strategy, from a creator of original content to an aggregator of sorts. Rediffmail has integrated news feeds from Orkut and Facebook with the stated objective being "to help users discover content on social networking platforms without actually visiting them." The release quotes Venki Nishtala, CTO, Rediff.com, as stating that email is becoming a dashboard of user activities. As Ashish noted, this is the ...Shared by rungss (19)Contribute comment
