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Shopping online with hp coupon codes

Filed in archive Quick introduction on February 10, 2010

Powerful search engines like Google have really given a push to the concept of online shopping. Ease of search and use has been seen as a major reason for people shifting to search engines for making their purchases.

A number of people prefer online shopping for making purchases as it is not only convenient but one can even strike some of the cheapest deals on the web. Some of the popular items sold on the internet relate to clothing, computers, food, music etc. In order to popularize the concept of online shopping, companies issue online coupon codes using which one can avail discounts and freebies on purchases. This is one of the marketing strategies used by online companies to push up their sales and pass on the benefits to the end consumer.

For e.g. take the case of computer companies which issue coupon codes to push their online sales. Companies like Hewlett Packard issue HP Coupon Codes, which are online promotional codes to offer price cuts and free accessories with their product purchase.

Definitely the advent of search engines has really given a boost to online shopping.

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Online Shops like DailyDeals.com get a new face with advent of search engines

Filed in archive Quick introduction on January 24, 2010

The evolution of search engines has enabled internet to reach new heights. Search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN have tremendously increased the popularity of internet. It has also given a push to the concept of online shopping which has enabled people to shop from the comforts of their living room.

Many online shopping sites like DailyDeals.com has enabled shoppers to get best deals on products as compared to shopping malls and supermarkets. As a result the percentage of online shoppers has increased over the past few years as compared to traditional shopping at malls and supermarkets.

Consumers are not only able to save on their hard earned money but even get their purchase delivered at their doorstep at no extra cost.

For online shopping all you need is a computer and internet connection and you are ready to roll. It's really simple and no rocket science, so switch on your computer and search the world of internet for the best deals across.

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More on Local Search Engines Outside of Google

Filed in archive Did you know on January 11, 2010

More on Local Search Engines Outside of Google
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Blogger Barry Welford recently called Google's local search functions half baked. His point is simple. Google find search results by using logical, mathematical algorithms. That's fine for many things. But human though is often illogical (especially when creativity is involved). If it ever plans to succeed in these areas, Google needs to find a way to drop the logic.

Local search isone of those areas.

If you can get past Google to search engines focus on local result (search engines like Canada 411), you get much more bang for your busk. Your efforts will be rewarded by a lot more clikc throughs to your website.

As Internet behavior becomes more oriented toward local results. Google is goign to see users look elsewhere.

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Seen that? - Columns versus Rows

Filed in archive Best of on October 22, 2009

Columns versus Rows at Googlestack

Seen that? - Columns versus Rows
In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theoretical these will definitely serve as a good and thorough (but not so hard to read) explanation on the subject matter. Once we got through these we'll see some more practical things in the next posts. Here's the list [...] Read More


Open-source alternatives to BigTable at Googlestack

disclosure: I am a Hypertable MapReduce contributor, and this post has nothing to do with increasing publicity of the project, the opinions presented here are the opinions of my own One of the most important google stack components is BigTable, the underlying data store. With it's proven scalability and availability characteristics, there was no wonder that sooner or later some open source alternative would have been created. I have already described [...] Read More


Outline of The Google Software Stack at Googlestack

Introduction The beginning of the research on software scalability spurred the research on fault tolerance and management technologies. After all, if you have a lot of software running on hundreds or even thousands of machines you have to know what's going on inside this set of machines, and when things break, you want the software to take care of it. These concepts, scalability, fault tolerance and software management, are so inherently [...] Read More


Google’s Bigtable - Distributed Storage System at On Storage

StorageMojo » Google's Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I: I know full well that I lack the background to *really* understand this sort of system, but I love the idea of it, I love reading about it - and I love what Google are doing to push the technology envelope. [...] Read More


Girl Gamers Unite to form Versus at XboxSpace

Ex-Frag Doll UK Voodoo FD has teamed up with another UK Gamer Vixen to create a new gaming website called ww.weareversus.com. The site, which officially launched yesterday, will act as a home to the two gamers, as well as a showcase for VersusS TV. As part of the launch, Voodoo FD has also changed her XBox Live gamertag to Siren.The focus is on sharing and venting views and opinions on [...] Read More

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Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast

Filed in archive Best of on October 12, 2009

KFS at Quantcast at Googlestack

Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast
With people claiming Quantcast is using Hadoop, and not giving a credit to the KFS it is necessary to give more details about the story, and not so surprisingly, the details are available instantly, and here they are (these details refer to Quantcast KFS deployment)


Two deployments:
-  130 node cluster hosting log data
- ~2M files; 70TB of data; WORM system
- Metaserver uses ~2GB RAM
- ~1TB of data copied in during [...] Read More

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