Facebook More Popular Than Google: So?

Published in March 21st, 2010

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According to Hitwise, Facebook just became more popular than Google Search. become the most visited website for the week. Facebook.com recently reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th. The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week [...]

Summer of WordPress 2010: Act I

Published in March 21st, 2010

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Scene: A college classroom Professor: Is anyone here applying for Google Summer of Code this year? If so, see me after class to discuss getting independent study credit toward your degree. Jack, a student: Isn’t that a really hard program to get into? Like, hard like getting to level 70 in Modern Warfare 2? Sophie, [...]

Usage Data vs Relevancy Algorithms

Published in March 21st, 2010

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A few years ago Google’s chief economist Hal Varian explained that scale is over-rated: We’re very skeptical about the scale argument, as you might expect. There’s a lot of aspects to this subject that are not very well understood. … So in all of this stuff, the scale arguments are pretty bogus in our view [...]