Published by Danny June 20th, 2008
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The trickle of senior executives leaving Yahoo has turned into a flood.
People close to the company confirmed on Thursday that three more senior executives — Qi Lu, Brad Garlinghouse and Vish Makhijani — were leaving. All were responsible for critical areas of Yahoo’s business.
Lu is executive vice president of the search and advertising technology group. He oversaw engineering efforts for the company’s search engine and search advertising technology. Continue reading ‘Yahoo looses more upper-management’
Published by Danny May 16th, 2008
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What is PageRank?
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links 
to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one. Continue reading ‘Google PageRank Explained’
Published by Danny May 7th, 2008
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Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month.
“We will start to show you the next version of the search,” Chairman Bill Gates said in comments to reporters in Japan on Wednesday, promising that Microsoft had some exciting things up its sleeve. The comments were included in a partial transcript provided by Microsoft.
The spring update is also expected to include new types of vertical search and improvements in overall relevance of search queries, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans. Specifically, Microsoft is expected to add to the shopping-specific search tools that debuted in its Fall 2007 release. Microsoft has also been working on a new look for its Live Search product, which went live this week.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft to show new search tech this month’
Published by Danny February 19th, 2008
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We all have our pet-peaves. Some of us have laundry lists of them. My list of personal pet-peaves is rather short, and as
far as my business pet-peaves, there is only one: Communications Etiquette.
What I am going to propose below might startle some of you largely due to the fact that most of us don’t follow the simple rule I am about to share with you…and it is so very simple!
Respond in kind. Thats it! (but allow me to ellaborate):
I have broken this down into 2 sections, Type, and Content. Continue reading ‘Communications Etiquette 101′
Published by Danny February 16th, 2008
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When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. So far I have only spoken to one colleague that hasn’t vocally expressed discomfort with the new Mac OS.
Within weeks of Microsoft unleashing Vista on the buying public the issues facing those making the switch from XP to Vista were clear and you could sum them up in a few bullet points:
Continue reading ‘Vista and Leopard: Both victims of bad parenting.’
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