Review of Google News Archive Search

Posted on December 09, 2008 in Autodesk Architectural Studio

Google (GOOG) is taking on an interesting role this morning. Today it is launching "Google News Archive Search," which will allow researchers and anyone doing searches on old news to go back some 200 years if the articles are available. Google is also doing with several partners you might not guess would want to cooperate, and with their blessing. http://news.google.com/archivesearch/ Time Warner (TWX) has its Time Magazine in the search, as does the New York Times (NYT) and the Washington Post (WPO). Factiva, a venture of Reuters (RTRSY) & Dow Jones (DJ) are in the offering as well. You can even search and purchase old articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Gaurdian. LexisNexis, a news search unit of Reed Elsevier NV ADS (ENL) in Holland, is also said to be part of the search. The interesting model here is that the "free"portion of this will essentially be an introduction or the first part of the article and you will have the option to buy the rest of each article. So instead of devaluing online content, this could in theory at least increase the value as back-dated articles could continue to generate revenues. The publishers (for now) are getting to keep the fees charged per article, and Google will supposedly not get advertising or traffic from the deal. Google won't even have the typical sponsored links that it normally has, although that is on a "for now" status. The service is grouping related articles together from a given time period and the search results are supposedly based entirely on relevance, with no precedence given to fee-based content over free content. The mix of fee versus free links will also vary depending on your query. This will also generate a quasi-timeline that allows search results in a chronology of news articles. This also takes each search click directly to the content owner's site. This is seemingly like a quasi-free LexisNexis. It could even be decribed as a Topix.net similar product, but this is for some 200 years. I did go in and pull up a few quick searches to get an interface and to get a quick opinion of the functionality. I typed in "Jack the Ripper" and was not really pleased with the chronology, but you do get an instant alternative to a normal Google search. A search for "1929 Crash" was a bit all over the place. Even typing in "Google IPO" shows a jumbled article result page. Nonetheless, this service will help for research and Google will undoubtedly make this better as time goes on. Unfortunately, Google is seemingly not getting much more than goodwill from paid content creators at this point. Ultimately the company will have to participate in revenues or at least in advertising, so it may end up being a net-good for the company. Until then this is just another net-neutral equivalent for the stock. Jon C. Ogg September 6, 2006 cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Home Depot And Dell: BusinessWeek States The Obvious

Posted on December 07, 2008 in Autodesk Inventor Series

Stocks: (F)(VIA)(HD)(DELL)(TWX) It is nice for BusinessWeek to come out with a list of "CEOs In The Hot Seat". I think that should be "on the hot seat", but that's fine. The premise of the article is that with Bill Ford stepping down and the CEO of Viacom being sacked, someone has to be next. The obvious problem with the analysis is that at Ford and Viacom board level decisions are controlled by a small number of people, no matter what their boards tell Wall St. Changing the guard only took one vote at Viacom. Sumber Redstone, enemy of Scientology. High on the list were Dell and Home Depot. Time Warner also made it. Our coverage of that company is written at BloggingStocks (www.bloggingstocks.com). In the case of Dell, the control of the company is probably still with Michael Dell, the founder and largest shareholder. Dell has given his man, Kevin Rollins, public support. Although Dell could throw Rollins out for a stock price $35.68 this year to $22.10, it would be blaming the chief executive for problems that are endemic to the PC industry. The company's growth has slowed down, but its is still a $60 billion company with huge operating income. Over at Home Depot, the board may have the same problem with Robert Nardelli. He has angered shareholders who think his pay package is too high and that he is an arrogant toad. But, as BusinessWeek points out, the financial performance of the company has been excellent since he joined. The recent problems with revenue, due primarily to slow housing starts and energy prices cannot be laid solely at his feet. The company is facing an options probe and its stock has dropped from $43.95 to $34.17. It is, however, up 80% over the last three-and-a-half years. The odds makers in Vegas are probably betting the the CEOs at Dell and Home Depot will stay around awhile. BusinessWeek should check the over/under. Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at douglasamcintyre@gmail.com. He does not own shares in companies that he writes about. cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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Dell Tries To Show The Flag

Posted on November 27, 2008 in Autodesk Inventor Series

Stocks: (VG)(VZ)(CMCSA)(EBAY)(TWX) In a move that many would consider foolhardy, the founder of Vonage, Jeffrey Citron, told Reuters that the company would continue to invest extremely large sums in customer acquisitions. He acknowledged that investors might not warm to the idea for at least two quarters, But, Wall St may not warm to it at all. He also made the observation that the company could lose money at the current rate and not run out of cash for 10 quarters. Talking about when the cash is gone is not always considered good investor relations. According to the Vonage 10-Q, the company spent $90.2 billion on marketing in the quarter ending June 30. In the same quarter in 2005, the marketing number was $60.9 million. Between the two periods, revenue did rise from $59.4 million to $143.4 million. But the operating loss also rose, from $65 million to $73.6 million. The 10-Q also says that the company believes that its strategy of increasing marketing costs is what will eventually lead to profitability. A close look at the numbers indicates that the Vonage strategy may work. Subscriptions rose from 847,849 as of June 30, 2005 to 1,853, 253 at the end of June 1006. The 10-Q also acknowledges that customer service at Vonage has been less than ideal as the customer base has grown so quickly. Although Vonage

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Posted on November 18, 2008 in Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical

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Media Digest 9/15/2006 NYT, Reuters, WSJ

Posted on November 15, 2008 in Autodesk Architectural Studio

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Posted on November 08, 2008 in Corel Designer

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NodeAlign immediate control macros

Posted on November 08, 2008 in CorelDRAW Graphics

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Documents Ctrl-Tab switching enhancement

Posted on November 08, 2008 in CorelDRAW Graphics

During you supplanting reports inserted CorelDRAW v11—X4 with Ctrl-Tab your first mouse press enclosed by the new window verdict be ignored making you suppose there's nothing wrong with the pointing idiot box :-), so to adopt a habit you take in to browse once to boot. I've offbeat this behaviour to a again comfortable together with natural a extent accomplished using AutoHotKey. Besides thanks to I've incorporated document InstaSwitch :-) consider into wx_ToggleToolbars which somehow suits its wonderful primary potential (toggling of editable nearly fullscreen habitude). So that gadget that once the macro is installed it intercepts switching of windows sending the naughty other press — plus thus you're able to manage initiates realizable the indeed first visit, no distractions! That judge operates within CorelDRAW v12,X3,X4 including does not halfway v11 (no VBA event curve rigged out). Of polity editable fullscreen toggling appliance interpolated v11 meanwhile stockpile as halfway v12,X3,X4 but that's the lower justification. Download cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Posted on October 26, 2008 in Adobe photoshop

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An Easy Fix for Privacy Concerns

Posted on October 13, 2008 in Autodesk Inventor Series

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