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Oracle-Sun: What will be the fate of MySQL?
Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
Oracle Corp. announced today that it will purchase Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Sun Microsystems has agreed to the terms of the deal. While primarily known for its database software, Oracle has in recent years acquired more enterprise and infrastructure applications through purchases of other companies, such as PeopleSoft (which offered human resource management system [...]
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Things That Google Knows About You
Posted on 23. Mar, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
What you’re searching for: Google is used by millions of people worldwide-and they know what every user is searching for, even if it’s not personally identifiable. The web pages you visit: Google AdSense is used by many web pages for online advertising, and Google’s cookies record your visits to web pages with their ad program on [...]
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Google Adwords ads on Picasa now
Posted on 17. Mar, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
Google Operating System reports Picasa is the latest Google property to be monetized with Google AdWords ads. If you conduct searches for pictures in Picasa’s web albums, you will find the ads at the top of the image results. ex: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=weekend+holidays Share/Save
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Search Queries are Getting Longer
Posted on 24. Feb, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
According to a recent study by Hitwise, search queries on all the major search engines are starting to get longer and longer. While the average search query is still around two words long, queries that are longer than four words have become increasingly popular over the last twelve months. This is an interesting trend, and it [...]
