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 [...]
Could it possibly be true? Has all wit and cleverness already dried up in the naming of Web sites, less than 15 years after the Internet was opened to the public?
In the beginning, Web sites announced their own names. You pretty much know what you’re going to find at Sears.com, Staples.com, McDonalds.com and Microsoft.com.
If you [...]
Google sometimes wears its source code on its sleeve (Summer of Code), and sometimes it doesn’t, as when it was reported today that Google will be contributing significant source code to MySQL. Given how innovative and engineering-oriented Google is, it’s hard to imagine a better vote of confidence in MySQL and a better code partner [...]
