Here at the Google Search Event in San Francisco, Google engineer Ben Gomes brought up the fact that the search engine serves up billions of queries every day, the average query length being 20 characters and the average time for a user to pick a result being 15 seconds. “There are billions of queries and [...]
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Tags: Billions, Copyright, Crunch, Engineer, Gomes, Google, Google Search, Launch, Marissa Mayer, People, Queries, Query Length, Rough Estimate, San Francisco, Search Engine, Search Event, Tens 
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I find this beyond creepy but hey, there are billions of people in the world, so I guess there must be people out there who would just love for their remains to be turned into vinyl records. And Vinyly exists to fill that demand (there is a demand for this right?). For an equally ridiculous [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Album Art, Billions, Brave Soul, Copyright, Custom Music, Embarrassment, Generic Album, Guess, Last Chance, Morbidity, People, Plays, Pops, technabob, Vinyl Record, Vinyl Records Comments Off
Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers, EducationYou may have noticed we’ve got our back to school jive on here at Download Squad. We figure it’s worth interrupting your usual programming for a week or two — after all, once the kids are back at school, we’re all free to do whatever we like until Christmas! Woohoo! Still, [...]
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Seven minutes. That’s all the time we’ve been allotted behind the wheel of the 2012 Infiniti M35 Hybrid at Nissan’s Oppama proving ground just outside of Yokosuka City, Japan. The near-production spec car we’ve come all this way to spend a paltry 420 seconds driving is a hugely significant vehicle for Nissan’s luxury arm, as [...]
Posted in Auto Fans Tags: Auto Fans, Billions, Bogey, Clutches, Conjunction, Hybrid Auto, Hybrid Powertrain, Infiniti M35, Japan Market, Lexus, Lexus Gs 450h, Liter, Manifestation, Nissan, Oppama, Powertrain, Proving Ground, Spec Car, Yen, Yokosuka City Comments Off
I am no politician, and I doubt I’ll ever intend on attempting to understand politicians because I believe many of them don’t have the sense that God gave a goat. One thing that I do know a little about is the automotive industry and what is put on blast in the media, on TV, and [...]
Posted in Automotive Addicts Tags: American Auto Industry, American Car, Automotive Industry, Automotive Suppliers, Bailout, Billions, Car Companies, Chrysler Plant, Current State, Ford Explorer, Gm Ford, Marginal Returns, Media On Tv, Obama, Recent Stories, Slowdown, State Of America, Tax Payers Money, Trickle Down Effect, Upswing Comments Off
I don’t want to mock the guys who make this netbook. I can’t think of any reason why I or anyone I know would want to buy but hey, there are billions of people on Earth. Someone’s bound to find a use for this, even though it only runs Windows CE, has a 300Mhz ARM [...]
Facebook Connect launched in late 2008. And now, a year and a half later, some 250,000 sites around the web are using it. Meanwhile, Facebook’s new social plugins (the kind using the new Open Graph) have been out for three weeks. Already, those are on over 100,000 sites Facebook confirmed today. That’s pretty amazing when [...]
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The mobile phone arena is moving more and more towards recycling and here in the UK many mobile phone users sell on their old mobile phone for recycling to online mobile recycling websites, but there can be a big discrepancy between those mobile recycling websites when it comes to how much cash you can get [...]
Posted in Phones Review Tags: 3gs, Android, Billions, Blackberry, Comparison Website, Countdown, Discrepancy, G1, Handset, Handsets, Iphone, Keir, Mobile Phone Users, Mobile Phones, Moving, Nokia, Nokia 5800, Price Discrepancies, Recycling, Shopping Comments Off
Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, BrowsersThere’s slim pickings from the Mozilla camp this week. Other than the release of Lorentz (3.6.4) (out of process plugins!!), there’s really nothing Firefoxy to report on. Instead, we’re going to roll the Firefox column into another topic starting with the letter ‘F’: Facebook. Still, hang in there: I’m going to [...]
Posted in Download Squad Tags: Adsense, Billions, Bookmarklet, Chunk, Collision Course, Dominion, Facebook, Firefox, Friday Five, Google, Liking, Lorentz, Loyal Users, Lucky Stars, Market Valuation, S Market, Slim Pickings, Stock Broker, Unrivalled Ability, Worth Hundreds Comments Off
Filed under: InternetNot content to give up and suckle on the buzzworded cable teat just yet, Bell Labs has just successfully tested a variant of DSL that is capable of up to 800Mbps — about 100 megabytes per second — using just a pair of traditional DSL connections. The range is short — only a [...]
Posted in Download Squad Tags: 100mbps, Alcatel, Alcatel Lucent, Bell Labs, Billions, Copper Wires, Cost Effective Solution, Digital Subscriber Line, Dsl Connections, Dsl Technology, Error Correction, Interference, Lucent, Megabytes, Nbsp, Nerds, New Technology, Optical Cables, Real World, Twisted Pair Comments Off
