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The Official Google Blog:
We knew the web was big... We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Misleading Blog Post: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Their Index Are Very Different — In a blog post today Google says they've identified 1 trillion unique URLs on the web. It's actually more, they say, but some web pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google “Knows” About 1 Trillion Web Items — How big is Google's web index? Google hasn't said for years and still isn't saying — but it is blogging today about how it “knows” of 1 trillion web-based items. Joy, we haven't had a search engine talk about pages it knows about to confuse things since the Lycos days.
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy.Com:So How Huge Exactly Is 1 Trillion Pages Online?
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Microsoft to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation — Today at the OSCON open source software convention, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced an unexpected new sponsor: Microsoft. The Redmond software giant, which will contribute $100,000 annually to the ASF …
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Sam Ramji / Port 25:
history.forward() — I'm writing this from Portland, Oregon where one of the world's largest Open Source conferences is taking place: OSCON. This year's event is focused on a theme of “ten years of open source,” referring to 1998 as the year that Eric S. Raymond, Danese Cooper, et al coined the term.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank — Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet. — A big part of Google's rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses …
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Ashley Phillips / ABCNEWS:
Rumor: ‘MacBook Touch’ in the Works — Conference Call Comment Reignites Longtime Rumors — When it comes to Apple, it doesn't take much to set tongues a-wagging. A slim Steve Jobs at the Apple Developers Conference in San Francisco last month has led to endless speculation …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Symbian open-source strategy explained at OSCON — Nokia made waves in the open-source software community last month when it announced plans to liberate the Symbian code base. Symbian currently holds the dominant position in the European markets and has traditionally been a highly-proprietary …
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Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Android, Symbian Expected To Become One OS — Analyst J. Gold Associates said the merger of the two mobile operating systems will begin within three to six months. — Nokia-owned Symbian and Google-created Android are destined to be combined to provide a single open source operating system …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
WiMAX phobia? AT&T tries to block Clearwire/Xohm merger — The proposed merger of Sprint's WiMAX Xohm subsidiary with Clearwire has the potential to be a hugely positive move. The new company pledges support for an open network, wholesale access, 6Mbps speeds, and good coverage.
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Apple says, “Want to hack iPhones for a living?” — Are you tired of seeing all your hard iPhone hacking work go unappreciated? Do you long for a chance to work for Apple while still poking around for flaws in the iPhone OS? Wait no longer, intrepid code ninja, for Apple may have just the job for you.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
World's biggest ISPs drag feet on critical DNS patch — BT, AT&T among those putting subscribers at risk — More than two weeks after security researchers warned of a critical defect in the net's address lookup system, some of the world's biggest internet service providers - including AT&T …
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InfoWorld:
San Francisco DA discloses city's network passwords — In its bid to protect the city from one computer security risk, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office may very well have created another. — The office of San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has made public close …
Wired News:
Celebrity Meter — Are You Internet Famous? Use the Wired Celebrity Meter to find out how big a deal you really are. Our algorithm will dig through your personal pages to find out how many fans are following your online exploits. — How it Works (short version) The Celebrity Meter scans URLs and scores internet fame based on:
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
V.C. Advice to Entrepreneurs: It's Not All About the iPhone — Though almost every discussion at the MobileBeat conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Thursday centered around the iPhone, venture capitalists told mobile entrepreneurs to broaden their focus and build applications for all phones.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones — Verve' Wireless's mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper on their cell phones. Verve or the newspaper then sell ads on those sites.
Kevin Maney / Portfolio.com:
CEOs Afraid of Facebook? Not the Ones I Know — Kevin Maney writes: Around the tech industry, Facebook is as much a business contacts site as it is a social site. That's due, in part, to the fact that in the tech industry business and social lives mix like crazy.
