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google search engine architecture- how do so many concurrent users do a search on it

With millions of users searching for so many things on google, yahoo and so on. How can the server handle so many concurrent searches? I have no clue as to how they made it so scalable. Any insight into their architecture would be welcomed. ...

SEO difference between dash and hypen

I understand with dashes once can search for keywords in different order. What if my keyword has a space in it like real estate or New York Should I use underscores in this case? If I do a Google search for New_York Google hints me: Did you mean: New York There is clearly a difference. Even capitals seems to make a difference, lookin...

dynamic meta data and description for pages

Hi, I am developing pages in php dynamically i.e data gets filled up from mysql DB. how do i assign a proper meta data and description for these dynamic pages so that google recognises it properly. What needs to be passed in page so that google takes description properly. when i search a page in google. it takes the data in page as des...

Anyone know how you can get a Google dev phone to make Android apps?

Hi there, I am thinking about converting my web apps into Android apps to reach the Android market. I do not have an Android phone. Can someone tell me how I can possibly get a Google developer phone (other than going to Google I/O, etc)? I realize this is somewhat of a ridiculous request but I have read blogs of people being enticed by ...

Why is GXHC_gx_session_id appended to URLs?

Based on my limited understanding of this parameter [1] it seems to be used in representing cookieless session IDs in java applications... but strangely, we're now noticing that a 3-year-old .NET stack is now appearing in Bing SERPs with GXHC_gx_session_id appended to the domain - and we're not alone: http://www.bing.com/search?q=GXHC...

Syncing Exchange and Google Cal

Guys, Have you come across any solution that would allow me to sync an exchange accounts calendar, with a google calendar? I'm aware of the desktop sync client, but this requires Outlook to be running on some machine, somewhere. Which is something I'd like to try and avoid if possible. I can run the syncing app on some VPS or something...

Is google hosted jquery working for you?

All other links are working of this page but this not this link not working http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js is it working for you? Update: Like in this case is there any method if google hosted version not working then local jquery should work on server? ...

Send HTTPService Request in flex 3 with '-' in the URl Paramerters to get Google Feeds

I am developing application in flex 3 which interacts with the Google feeds to produce my results. The URL to which i want to send request is something like this http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=football+-soccer&start-index=11&max-results=10 Now i can send and receive results with q parameter, but in the next t...

How to know which URL is accessed from IP address/Country in Google Analytics.

How to find-out which url is accessed from which IP address/Country using Google analytic. I found the country list and visit count. how do i know which URL visited from that country. ...

how to pass parameters to a URL and get the generated image

I want to pass several parameters to this url and generate the map from it and show it in my java application. I know the code to download the image and show it in the java application. I want to know how to pass parameters to this address: http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Nugegoda&zoom=14&size=1000x312&m...

Google checkout - Order processing notification handler

Hi I need to integrate google checkout on my website. I have successfully implemented the order placing and others stuff and using the sandbox I have tested that users can successfully add items to cart and and pay thereafter. I am using my own customized shopping cart written in php mysql. The last thing I need to do is pass the new ...

How to make google search show my website like this

When searching for some websites on google, it shows the first result like this: eBay - New & used electronics, cars, apparel, collectibles Motors Computers & Networking Electronics Home & Garden Clothing, Shoes & Accessories Cell Phones & PDAs Sporting Goods I guess it ha...

Google Checkout response and "Processing orders automatically"

I have selected "Processing orders automatically" on Google Checkout and it credited the amount automatically. But it takes few minutes (sometimes upto 15 minutes) to get response on the Call Back URL (notification url) from Google regarding the success state. So the user need to wait upto this time to get autorization and is very bad....

What technology should I use or avoid if I want to be acquired by Google?

I'm part of a startup that builds a product that might be acquired by Google. We can choose to build the product using many different types of technology. Which technologies are most Google friendly? I would love to have a list of use / don't use pairs. Like this: Use html5 Don't use silverlight Use Linux Don't use Windows etc. ...

.net vs other top technologies

Hello, I would like to ask You all, what do You think about the future of .Net technology comparing to other top fashion technologies (for example from google). Is it possible that within few years all solutions will be developed in other technologies than .Net. Is it worth learning .Net solutions looking into the future ? ...

Using CURL with Google

I want to CURL to Google to see how many results it returns for a certain search. I've tried this: $url = "http://www.google.com/search?q=".$strSearch."&hl=en&start=0&sa=N"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);...

cross domain gwt ?

is there a way to run gwt on a proxy loaded web page ? ex) using proxy script on myexamplesite.com that loads finance.google.com, and running GWT on the newly loaded page. I've been doing the above before I found about GWT, using LAMP stack + Jquery (UI), which quickly turned out to be crap and inefficient. All this trouble to bypass ...

Detecting whether user is logged in or not from a Chrome extension

Hi, is there an easy way to detect from a Chrome extension that the user is logged into his google account or not. I guess there is a nasty way to figure this out by loading a html/css/js resource that requires authentication. But i'd like to do this in a "clear" way. thx and best, Viktor ...

Set up facebook UrchinTracker for aJax calls for Google Analytics

I have set up the Google Analytics in my FBML facebook application. It works for tracking the php pages. (I can see the report in GA). However, I also want to track the aJax calls, because most of the pages of my application is ajax driven, rather than loading differnet php pages. so, that's what I put in the code (before ajax call) ...

Where to put canonical tag ?

hi, I have learned the uses of canonical tag recently. Now, my question is. suppoose i have one master page - Targeted webpage page - www.example.com/science/medical-science Another page (clone) - www.example.com/science/medical-science?//586?789 Now suppose these two are basically same webpages, i want all my visitor of link juice ...