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Bing is the latest version of a search engine developed by Microsoft. Microsoft was developing and testing for the last couple of months a search engine with the name Kumo which in Japanese means spider or cloud. Kumo was of course just the code name for what would become eventually Bing.

Search is very important because 1% of the search market is roughly worth 1 billion dollars. This means that the number two player can make some decent money. Microsoft doesn't have to become number one but they need to just grab around 30% or so and they are in good shape. Since Bing was launched...

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Like the title says.

GIVE IT BACK!! Please.

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I decided to do a little test on one of my machines with the three browsers I use most. In each browser I opened up Gmail, Google Reader and CNNMoney.

I did this on Friday and did not look at the memory usage until Monday. After a little less than 3 days, we get the following numbers

Chromium 1.0.154.48

180,157k

IE 8.00.6001.18372

362,223k

Firefox 3.0.4

100,...

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What is going on with Google today? Every search I do has This site may harm your computer.

See the image below

This site may harm your computer





And how ironic is this? Google itself shows up as malware LOL





Google Is Malware?

Google seemed to have fixed this problem, Too...

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Google Interview Questions

by SQLDenis on Oct 08, 2008 in categories Ethics & IT
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Google Interview Questions

So the economy is really bad and your job might be on the line, Google is always looking for new talent. Here are 2 questions that they asked a friend of mine. What would you answer?

1. You have been shrunk down to the size of a nickel and tossed into a blender. You are told that the blender blades will start in 60 seconds.What would you do to save your life?





2. Design and describe a system/application that will most efficiently produce a report of the top 1 million Google search requests.These are the particulars.

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