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If you look at google now, it's a bunch of disparate programs waiting to be coherently linked together. It looks like those little programs that early days computer enthusiasts used to put together. Maybe that's why their laid-back air is so popular with the masses.But will googlemania finally die out one day when they fail to link these separate parts together? If they succeed, then what they achieve is a new WEB altogther.

Hi guys. What's life like as a technically competent programmer in your country?Over here, programmer is the lowest life form. Everyone despises the programmer, from the sales to the users. The consultants are people who normally are poor in actual programming, but good at talking and sales, and they rose up to be a consultant.Here, a programmer works from 8:30am to 9pm everyday rushing projects. Pay increments are low, and can expected to be laid off by 35 yrs old, once u are considered technologically backward.How's life of a programmer in your country?

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Good topic Am pinning it. I can see the beginning of a nice discussion.

Thanks for the replies. SO which one would you prefer?

 

GOOGLE or YAHOO

 

I prefer google cos it is much more simplier and faster.

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Previously, relevance ranking was all based on page contents. That's when people started to manipulate their contents to gain a higher rank, and search results got screwed.

Googled figured out that by analysing the links to a page, it can guage it's ranking better. Of cos, it figured out a way to discount those links which were put in manipulatively.

That's when all engines gave crap results and it gave good results. Other engines have played catch-up, but google is far ahead now.

Google Automat: Web-Based User-Assisted Classified Advertising

Sounds like they have a new idea in the works. Anyone have any guess abt the concrete thing that they are going to do? Is it related to the secretive Google Base, which is a project on classified ads.

Anyway we can make money from this?

comments from the web:

"They're certainly planning for an all-out assault on classified advertising. They have made that clear with the URL, among other things."

The Patent ApplicationOK, now to the patent application itselfhere it is:
Title: System and method for providing on-line user-assisted Web-based advertising OR as a PDF file (with images).
Patent No.: 20050216335
First Published: September 29, 2005; First Filed: March 24, 2004

Abstract: A system and method for providing on-line advertising is presented. An interface guiding on-line advertising creation is presented. An advertisement is created from at least one of user inputs and stored data and includes information describing at least one item. An advertising creative is generated in association with the advertisement and includes a hyperlink reference to the advertisement. The advertisement is hosted on-line as a Web page and the advertising creative is placed on one or more targeted Web pages.

From the Background of invention:


Placing creatives and advertisements on-line for access by the general Web community can be especially problematic for individual or small advertisers. Advertising creatives must be integrated into other Web content to effectively drive Web traffic, but advertisers are generally not able to unilaterally add creatives to other Web pages. A third party Web content provider, such as a search or advertising engine, is needed. Small advertisers may not have an online Web presence, and, therefore, traditional Web advertising that drives Web traffic to the Web site of the advertiser is not possible.

Therefore, there is a need for an approach to providing Web-based user-assisted advertising. Preferably, such an approach would guide a user in the creation of advertisements describing offerings of goods or services, creatives associated with the advertisements, and advertising budgets. Such an approach would also help create and host a Web presence for individual and other advertisers. Such an approach would also facilitate driving Web traffic to hyperlinked advertisements through targeting