Tech Industry Giant Lew Platt Dies
Former HP CEO Lew Platt died on Thursday, September 8th. Platt worked for Hewlett-Packard starting in 1966 as an engineer in the…
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Former HP CEO Lew Platt died on Thursday, September 8th. Platt worked for Hewlett-Packard starting in 1966 as an engineer in the…
With all the back and forth going on about search index sizes, it would be nice to be able to test the claims made by the various engines. Well, it appears as if there may be a way to verify if an engine's purported index size is accurate.
The Nielsen/NetRatings organization, long known and prized for its ratings systems announced a new way to track ratings and figuring in the folks who toss their cookies. They've been testing the method in the U.S. and using it in Australia and Italy.
Google's index seems to be the freshest, MSN keeps its database up to date within 20 days, and Yahoo is chaotic.
It must be Yahoo!'s week to get slammed. Last week was Technorati and the weeks before that saw Google and MSN face the gauntlet. And now, as everybody else is whirling accusations of phishing and stolen bandwidth, Business Week Online pounds the other Yahoo! kidney over site design.
Not too long ago, the choice of professional tools for developing content for the Flash Platform was limited to a handful of commercial offerings with a sprinkle of open source alternatives.