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Global broadband cost statistics: Macau, China is the cheapest

September 6th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

International Telecommunication Union recently announced its latest report on global country fixed telephone, mobile and fixed broadband situation in the statistics. According to the report, in 2009, the Central African Republic (The Central African Republic) is a global fixed broadband use of the most expensive place, the monthly cost of the local population 40 times the monthly income; Macau, China, is the lowest cost, one month broadband charges only 0.30% of average monthly income (that is the price index of 0.30).

- Fixed broadband cheapest five countries or regions: Macau, China, Israel (price index 0.33), Hong Kong (price index was 0.49), the United States (price index of 0.5), Singapore (price index 0.58).

- The most expensive of the five African countries, respectively (the price index for 3891), Ethiopia (price index for 2085), Malawi (price index for 2038), Guinea (price index for 1546), Niger (the price index 967).

- The cost of broadband users in China accounted for 7.19% of monthly income.

 

Mozilla and Google jointly issued “W3Help” website

September 6th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

Recently, internationally renowned browser Firefox has again joined hands with Google to launch W3Help website dedicated to promoting the W3C international standard domestic help web developers understand the standards and improve the website compatibility, enhance the users Web browsing experience.

What is the “W3C” standard?

“W3C standards” means standards of W3C standards approved by the Working Group on the final stage of the process. The name of the document that the standard has gone through W3C member organizations and the public’s review, which aims to standardize Web technology. So far, W3C has developed more than 50 specification (draft). In the Firefox, Google teamed up to launch the W3Help website (http://www.w3help.org/zh-cn/), the on HTML, CSS, DOM specifications do more description.

Why do we need “W3C” standard?

Currently popular on the Internet in a variety of browsers, the browser dealing with a same page, sometimes differences in performance or behavior. If this is very different, may result in some browsers can not view the website. Problems caused by these differences is “browser compatibility issues.”

Browser mode is often referred to as “rendering mode.” Different browsers render mode is not only an impact analysis on the code and script behaviors are also affected. If a page can make the browser work in “standard mode”, then the browser will be “standard” approach, making Internet users when using a different browser, see little difference between the page. Conversely, if a page so that all browsers are working in “mixed mode”, then the browser will be the difference between the performance of a very large impact of Internet users browsing experience.

Therefore, Internet developers in the preparation of a page, should be used to trigger the browser to the “standard model” of the DTD, and writing compliant code, to ensure the web in all browsers for maximum compatibility, for the users to bring better browser experience. This “standard” is “W3C” advocated “W3C” international standard.

Consequences of the fact that the standard brewing over the benefits of common standards

Back in early 2009, there had been 2,400 sites and domestic IE8 incompatible phenomena, spared many famous sites, the Chinese site is almost completely annihilated. The reason is the majority of sites in accordance with the W3C standard is not compatible with older versions of IE were caused by the development.

Microsoft on August 27, 2001 Published IE6 (Internet Explorer 6), enhance the compatibility of CSS1, making analytical and IE6 on the CSS before rendering and it has a very different version of IE5.5. In order to maintain good backward compatibility, Microsoft provides the user with a “switch” to determine the browser mode. In the subsequent launch of IE7, IE8, also used the “switch.” Thus, making IE7, IE8 and IE6, as in the “mixed mode” on page processing. Therefore, IE series of “hybrid model” the behavior of the browser to freeze in the old version of IE5.5 browser. As time advances forward and standards, this “hybrid model” can not adapt to the rapid development of the Internet.

In China, because Windows bundled with IE browser, they have caused the IE (especially IE6) wide application. The majority of sites in accordance with national standards are not compatible with older versions of IE for development, when the IE browser upgrade, the emergence of a number of domestic sites are not compatible with the phenomenon. In particular aspects of the web of silver, because the domestic most banks provide only Windows and IE-based online payment solutions, resulting Zhong Duofei Windows, non-IE users Wufazhengchang login online banking, pairs of users of Internet use causes terrible harm.

With Firefox browser users share continued to rise, the Firefox browser has been sit tight in the global market, number two. It is in the majority of users and non-IE users, the call to a third party payment platform, “Alipay” never support Firefox and other non-IE browser to fully support cross-platform online payment, users needs to win the “standard dispute, “an important battle. The Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, one of the Big Four state-owned China Construction Bank has also announced support for Firefox. Adhere to international conventions of the “W3C” standard, users will be more convenient Internet browsing.

W3Help” website to help developers understand the Chinese Internet standards, to improve the compatibility issues

Firefox has consistently adhered to internationally accepted standards in the early Firefox3.5, it is important to upgrade brought online media, providing the world’s first video and audio support HTML5 implementation (Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora, allowing Web developers page contains rich media content, and you can use JavaScript, HTML, CSS to manipulate them. the Firefox and Google join forces once again, released W3Help website ((http://www.w3help.org/zh-cn /), for domestic developers to provide more “W3C” standard introduction to the causes of compatibility, compatibility issues and provide concrete examples of reference for web developers, Internet users in China to enhance the Web experience to contribute!

Yahoo confirmed that testing Bing search technology which the future will replace own search

July 17th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

Yahoo confirmed that from this month online testing Bing search results. Yahoo said that this switch will occur in August or September, if the test is not going well, will be extended backwards.
Yahoo said in a statement, “Although we have already begun to test the line, but this month, we will search for the online test Microsoft’s Yahoo offer organic search and paid search results.” This statement is a Yahoo Feng Bing search deal Yahoo and discussed the e-mail as part of the content is of great concern to advertisers.

Yahoo said, “During this period, the content will be tested there is uncertainty, however, paid search, Yahoo will try to ensure that the number of lower level during this period, so as not to affect advertisers.” Yahoo said the switch will occur in this in August or September, if the test is not successful will be extended backwards.

Yahoo reiterated the importance of the switch. Market research firm comScore data show, Bing technical support 30% of the global organic search and paid search requests. Last year in July, Yahoo reached a search advertising partnership with Microsoft deal, Yahoo will give up its own search technology, technical support by Bing Yahoo’s search business.

Yahoo CEO Carol – Bartz (Carol Bartz), said Yahoo and Microsoft in the search area can not compete, Microsoft has proven itself willing to invest in the search, while Yahoo can not do this. Under the cooperation agreement, Yahoo will retain 88% of its revenues from web search business, Microsoft will get the remaining 12% of the revenue.

Bartz said, “In essence, we can not pay any costs in the case were virtually all search revenue, because Microsoft wants to invest, and hope to win. Cooperation can make us better to invest in the portal Website, content and advertising. ”

Bartz said that Yahoo will focus on content creation, including the serious news to gossip. Meanwhile, Yahoo will be dedicated to advertising, as Yahoo and Bing search, and sales of Microsoft and Yahoo portals pay click on the text ads. Yahoo will also focus on the value of search advertisers.

Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft, not only between the elimination of a major competitor Yahoo, and Microsoft has doubled the size of Bing, while Microsoft is saving large sums of money, because it no longer spending huge sums to buy Yahoo.

Microsoft said that Yahoo’s deal does not involve all the company’s Internet assets and products, e-mail, instant messaging, brand advertising or any other business. Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Hotmail are still competing.

Google vice president of product: the completion of search technology, “caffeine”

July 17th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

15 July, Google released second-quarter earnings after the conference call, product, senior vice president Jonathan Rosenberg on Google’s products introduced in detail, the following is Rosenberg’s statement: First introduced to the Google search engine, the traditional search engine works: the user input click Search, and then came a series of links to related sites. But now more and more complex sites, videos, books, music and other information on the amount of data increases rapidly, the traditional search engines have lagged behind.

In order to improve the user experience, speed up the search speed, we developed a new indexing technology, “caffeine” (Caffeine). “Caffeine” is a completely different and the index of technology in the past, when we captured the video or pictures of a similar type of information that can directly add them to the index, there is no additional delay. This means that users will be able to get more timely information, in fact, “caffeine” twice as fast in the past.

Once you get your search results, you may also need to filter the results. To this end we have developed a new user interface, the left of the page there are some options, the user can use these options to filter. I especially like the “time selection” feature that can help me find the results of a particular time. For example, you type “oil spill”, then select 1969, you can get more information on Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara) oil spill information.

Sometimes you need may be only a result. Google search engine is very smart, we know your real needs, and accurate feedback of results to come back. For example, enter “Obama birthday”, Google will directly reflect the “August 4, 1961,” and it placed first in search results, reference to different sources of information will link below. There are more advanced, such as typing the South African capital of Pretoria (Pretoria) The first letter, we have shown the results.

I specifically pointed out that these improvements because most people do not realize that search engine changes, the user in most cases found in search results only faster, and easier to get the desired information. I remember that in January a conference call that we are developing many new features that make it easier for users to live and work, improve search engine is one of them. Google There are many other improvements, such as “voice search,” added the six language support, we released all the page spelling error correction function, there are other more than 100 of the new improvements. In fact, we have developed so many new features, so had to post a blog every week, to introduce improved search.

However, it is interesting that with the improvement of search operations, in fact, bring us an even greater challenge. Advertising may need to speed up the pace to do better. Otherwise, people will not click on ads, this is not good. Therefore, this power from the consumers who control all media, not just search. The past is to see or listen to consumers advertisers want to show, but now not. I think this is a fundamental change in the advertising industry.

When people do not need to see your ad, how do you do? Do you have to make advertising make people really want to see. A few weeks ago, I saw Piazza San Marco in Venice, a huge advertising a ski suit. Ads like the 90-degree turn, because we were all wearing shorts and T-shirts, and sweat. I watched and thought, “Well this is not in a waste of money.” Therefore, I use the phone and took pictures of the ads, will send it to my team, that ad is great room for improvement. We’ve added a new advertising model, and focus more on quality. The new advertising model leading advertising publishers to add their ads more useful information, such as advertising images, the local address or telephone number. As a result, when you use the cell phone search, you are more willing than before, which contains the addresses and telephone numbers click advertising. This seems obvious, but we proved from the data on its authenticity. Since the click on the link to their cell phone advertising, our customers – Carnival cruise booking through mobile phones increased by 175%.

Advertising, I know you often mention quality. I am proud to say that in the past few years, we gain the most productive quarter. In the search business from more than ten rounds of action driven large rapid revenue growth. For example, the better ads on the second page of search results. Meanwhile, Google network display platform has more than 20 quality improvement.

Display advertising is also very good. Its latest development is that we are working with agency partners to work closely with an “audience buying patterns.” I think this is a fundamental change in advertising trends, the ultimate goal of this model is to our network, specify a particular audience, such as your goal is “18 to 35-year-old basketball like women”, we will automatically for you Lock the audience.

Sales, this is the start of business last quarter, we are making progress. Advertisers to track the people who visited their Web site. Interest-based advertising, we launched the business last year, also achieved very good results. Our third-quarter launch of the “double-click advertising exchange” will be, too. We’ve got the top ad networks, and is tracking a number of large buyers such as advertising holding company. The technology will be real-time bidding, and all the advertisers and those who want to participate in open collaboration, advertisers really love this technology.

We hope to open all the things we do. We believe that open systems better than the website, the site is more conducive to competition, and open the system more user-friendly. This is not charity, when the site run better, more and more people will use it more frequently, meaning that the more frequent searches. Android is a leading example, as Patrick said, we start every day, more than 160,000 of the Android device, the last quarter rose to 650 million. Even more interesting is that these devices updated completely independent of Google.

Android market is open, there are more than 70,000 applications. In April, when about 30,000. When these new applications are continuously being created, you will realize that cell phones are not isolated, but millions of computers 24 / 7 link up. Original thought was impossible, we can use these procedures can be done. We have just released a new version of the glasses, you can let your mobile phone smart translator, to read another language.

Therefore, cloud computing also means that enterprises can make full use of the advantages of these innovations. We just launched this feature: you upload PDF or scanned document images, we will convert it to text, so you edit it. You do not need to install any special software or anything else. If you are a Google application, users can easily work. I hope you played our special graffiti game Pac-Man. May 22, we celebrate its 30th birthday, users spent 4.8 million hours probably play the game. I hope you do not miss.

Google acquired semantic search company Metaweb

July 17th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

Fri Google announced that it has acquired Internet information database company Metaweb, to improve its core business of Internet search. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Metaweb developed a semantic data storage network infrastructure, and the “open sharing of global knowledge database” Freebase. Freebase is a huge, collaborative editing of cross-linked database, allows anyone to contribute, organize, search, copy and use the data. Sounds like with Wikipedia, but in fact are not organized according to the article, but contains more than 11 million objects, such as movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies database.

Google bought Metaweb is to enable the search more intelligent, quick to answer the complexity of the user input search term. Freebase will continue as a free and open data exist, but Google will continue to develop and feeds to the database.

Although the monopoly of the United States, Google Internet search market, but also face competition from Microsoft will be. Survey, will be in the United States more than 10% market share. Currently Google is constantly acquired earlier this month announced the acquisition of 700 million U.S. dollars for many travel search and booking of the most popular technology website ITA software company.

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Two market research company survey data conflict with each other: What Dell is the first or the second?

July 17th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

According IDC market research company recent statistical data show that recently has been in the global PC market, the third son to play the role of the second quarter of this year, Dell Inc. has finally cut Wei second child ….. Ta Mengai quarter of the global sales market share up 13%, compared with the original second Acer’s market share was only 12.6% of sales, the following is given by the market research firm IDC report data table:

However, another market research firm Gartner, a market research reports will be out with the IDC report, according to Gartner, Dell’s second quarter market share in recent years, only 12.4%, less than 13% of Acer and HP’s 17.4%.

But both the IDC or Gartner, two market research companies in the data indicate that compared to this year’s PC market, the economy had greatly improved last year, Gartner chain given the improvement rate of 20.7%, while the IDC data is closer to 22.4% . In addition, in the U.S. market, IDC’s survey data show that sales of PC products, the chain increased by 12.6%, while Gartner’s data is achieved as much as 16%.

The U.S. market share rankings, IDC and Gartner both of the data is relatively consistent, both from high to low discharge of the Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer, Apple, Toshiba’s ranking, in which the gap between Acer and Dell In the two bodies are larger investigation report.

World Cup scoring lead to the rapid increase in site traffic Twitter

June 20th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

In the World Cup is an important goal in record time, social networking sites will see substantial growth in communications traffic. While Twitter generally released every second day, about 750 micro-Bo article, however, when Japan and Cameroon on Monday, scoring the game when the number of articles per second micro-Bo reached 2940. In Brazil the first time in Monday’s race team scored a goal, when North Korea and Mexico in June 11 when the tie with South Africa, appears almost the same micro-Bo flow.

Twitter has not yet announced that the United States and Slovenia on Friday, 2 to 2 micro-Bo usual amount of kick. This may lead to a large number of activities.

However, basketball is still better than the football. Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night with the Boston Celtics NBA Championship between the production of up to 3085 per second micro-Bo.

World Cup has caused a huge traffic Twitter frequent outages. The site plan will be postponed until the network transformation after the World Cup.

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Google Search: real-time search algorithms still need to optimize

June 17th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

Search Engine Land editor attended the TWTRCON General Assembly, today hosts David Berkowitz invited to the Google (Google) search product manager Dylan Casey talk about real-time search.
Q: Why is real-time search results of Google users is important?

A: For a publishing platform, the content is important. Therefore, we first added support for the blog, followed by micro-blog. The significance is not a URL, but also because these meta-data and information can help us understand the content and meaning. These elements have come from? Correlation between them, how? This is why make them with Google and the user is related causes.

Q: SEO problem?

A: This is everyone concerned, especially the brand owners. Continue to publish high-quality content! Focus on the frequency and quality. This is still the focus, because we will present the content in these factors with the search results before the other, there is no difference.

These elements will be limited to survive it? It can not, because Google has return function (refer to Google Buzz response function)

Q: These changes in the natural search results, paid search results on the influence it?

A: there is no correlation between the two. But assuming that people think that advertising content may be interactive with the real-time, then the effect will be good.

Q: Facebook is the real king of the field, which makes real-time content will become more open and what effect it?

A: The network the more open the better, not only to Google, for everyone. However, the contents of the past, it is private, which need to be more careful to manage.

If the user will be followed by a twitter in the deleted words, we should twitter through Google’s archive search to find, and then to twitter deleted, because of restrictions on twitter their show can not find a single tweet.

Q: Who is more information and real-time search important?

A: Many examples can prove that Google’s consciousness of the importance of the newspaper.

Q: But the page space is limited, and already have Google News in real-time search results.

A: Yes, when you search through the Google Universal search results or OneBox access to information when the page in the same time will show the real-time search results. Such as Scarlett in the MTV Awards ceremony, the award-winning, people might have in it just happens to search, of course, you want to see just what happened.

Q: Google Buzz and Google Wave at?

A: Buzz How important? I think it is really very important, especially for a content can be dialogue functions. We not only Buzz, can comment. Buzz with Google that is as important as other platforms.

The Wave, also need to give those who say, “plus I AIM” or “MSN to find me” people some time, things have been changing, people need time to discover the true meaning of Wave.

Q: real-time search of the future?

A: We also need to take time to resolve how to trigger the main search results pages in real time search of the problem, get a lot of people do not see the look in the real time feedback on the results, and vice versa. We have to find a balance backwards and forwards, but I can guarantee that we will make improvements.

Caffeine engine for change, whether it is to make real-time content classification.

Audience Q: Google’s Twitter archive search results can only be a few months before ah now?

A: We are with Twitter on the content of those older co-operation.

Audience Question: how real-time search algorithm is like?

A: good question, not everyone with a pen? Haha … …

Generally speaking, people have to understand how Google’s PageRank algorithm is the work of the. For real-time search, a content which can be seen in the short term be “sharp push” (retweet) frequency. We spent a lot of time communicating with people, engineers have made enormous strides in efforts to innovation. It is like with the search, but we have not fully resolved.

Google Japan added cooking Search, followed Bing again

June 17th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

Google Japan added cooking search, just type the keyword with the food-related, you can search for treasure in the left see the “menu” option, click to see all search results on cooking (such as search, “natto” or “summer vegetable.”) You can even search for treasure in the refined search results, including the cooking time, calories, and from which the number of cooking sites.

Cooking is also currently exists only in Google search site in Japan, but is estimated in the future to promote to the world.

Google Japan added cooking Search , followed Bing again

Familiar with Bing (will be) and it certainly shocked comrades, Google again pay tribute to Bing up.

Military commander of the U.S. Open: daily hacking the Pentagon spying network 6,000,000 times

June 5th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

According to Singapore, "David Keys," 5 reported Meiguo Wang military commander Alexander pointed out that the hacker was spying on the Pentagon’s network every day (Probe) frequency up to 600 million; he was worried that U.S. computer systems are "long-range enemy" attacks will increase .
According to reports, Meiguo Wang Command was formally established only recently in charge of a four-star general Alexander (Keith Alexander). Alexander is also the National Security Agency. After he served as commander of the network in the United States Centre for Strategic and International Studies, first published in a public speech that he first priority after taking office, R & D network threatened the United States military real-time picture; and started to develop this threat of counterattack regulations.
Alexander pointed out that the Pentagon system was 250 000 times per hour, external detection, one day down on as many as 600 million.
Alexander said the United States, "Department of Defense need to maintain more than 700 million machines secure, and these machines connected to networks 15 000."
He said that Mei Guowang Command job is "to deter, detect, defense threats to U.S. electronic space." He believes that U.S. national interests are threatened, because the actors from abroad, terrorists, criminal groups, individual hackers, more and more powerful lineup, which the United States was "very vulnerable to attack."
Alexander pointed out that the composition of national and military effectiveness of each part of the operation, the electronic space is critical, national data must be protected.
He said that judging from the clues, some from far away intruders targeting some of the system is prepared for destruction, damage and destruction today engage in this kind is possible, and it is the United States must take seriously.
He hoped that the military and government computer networks to improve real-time status monitoring capabilities. He pointed out that the network situation awareness of the United States is very limited, on the whole network system did not outline the path of common action plan.
He pointed out that in the face of network attacks, to how to deal with, this is the need to define "clear rules of engagement."
Russia has proposed the United States, entered into a restricted network warfare treaty. Alexander believes that the Russian proposal "can serve as a starting point for international discussion," but he said the level of discussion should be "higher than me."
Alexander also believes that network security must involve the private sector.
He said that maintaining network security is not only the responsibility of the military, but also a national security issue, should use all the tools and the power of the country to be addressed.

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