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18 Nov 08

Yahoo! Search Blog: BOSS -- The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem

  • Our goal with BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is simple -- foster innovation in the search landscape. As anyone who follows the search industry knows, the barriers to successfully building a high quality, web-scale search engine are incredibly high. Doing so requires hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in engineering, sciences and core infrastructure -- from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, servers and power. Because competing successfully in web search requires an investment of this scale, new players have effectively been prohibited from delivering credible alternatives to Yahoo! and Google. We believe the BOSS platform will begin to change that.
    • Ability to re-rank and blend results -- BOSS partners can re-rank search results as they see fit and blend Yahoo!'s results with proprietary and other web content in a single search experience
    • Total flexibility on presentation -- Freedom to present search results using any user interface paradigm, without Yahoo! branding or attribution requirements
    • BOSS Mashup Framework -- We're releasing a Python library and UI templates that allow developers to easily mashup BOSS search results with other public data sources
    • Web, news and image search -- At launch, developers will have access to web, news and image search and we'll be adding more verticals soon
    • Unlimited queries -- There are no rate limits on the number of queries per day
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02 Mar 06

Automated Backups With rdiff-backup | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

  • But fortunately there is a solution: the use of public keys. We create a pair of keys (on our backup server backup.example.com), one of which is saved in a file on the remote system (server1.example.com). Afterwards we will not be prompted for a password anymore when we run rdiff-backup. This also includes cron jobs which is exactly what we want.
  • This tutorial describes how to do automated server backups with the tool rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup lets you make backups over a network using SSH so that the data transfer is encrypted. The use of SSH makes rdiff-backup very secure because noone can read the data that is being transferred. rdiff-backup makes incremental backups, thus saving bandwidth.

Ning Content Store: Ning Developer Documentation

  • The Ning Content Store stores all the content items for all the Ning
    applications: bookmarks, reviews, restaurants, teachers, wish lists,
    babysitters, calendars, and so on. It keeps track of metadata about each content
    item as well such as who contributed the item, which application owns the item,
    and the tags that users have applied to the item.
  • The biggest difference between the Content Store and a traditional RDBMS is that
    in the Content Store, there is no definition of content structure separate from
    actual content. There are no table schemas that must be set up before rows are
    inserted.
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Lost Garden: Nintendo's Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution's new controller

  • I’m still jet lagged from my recent trip overseas, but I managed to stay awake
    for the new Nintendo controller announcement. I must say that I’m feeling like
    an excited Japanese school boy waiting in line for the latest Dragon Quest.
  • I'm looking for mirrors since my little academic game design site is currently
    out of bandwidth as a result of all the interest. 40% of my monthly bandwidth
    was eaten in roughly 30-minutes. Sweet
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