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Economic Sciences deserve to take over the whole Nobel prize. They should get all the prizes. They have proven themselves as the ultimate woodo wizards of "applied" scientists. If …

What is so disheartening about so many of my facebook contacts sharing this? That it is a simple manifestation of the power of herd mentality. You are talking about mature adults w…

After some terrible early experiences with gold diggers, I am now very happy to be with a woman that despises any and all status symbols, and instead of buying them invested some m…

Oh Draco, you do get your reward for not going over to the dark completely...

I run a startup news website. I review press-releases and pitches every day. The basics in this post are solid, but the two most important things in a pitch are 1)exclusivity 2)cur…

I enjoyed the originality and wit. In Russian language, mercykill strike you!

when you search in French from Canada, do you get results from France as well?

!!!! Exactly! if you don't employ a sufficient numbers of native speakers for these languages, you will never get sufficient results. All other employees can't help you out. Transl…

Well, for Yandex, livejournal is as important as .gov domains for google. Livejournal.com is very important for Russians on the internet and completely irrelevant for everyone else…

That's the point of the article- there is no such problem in germanic languages and many other European languages that the google algo have been tweaked for. Search on google in en…

You raise a very interesting point. Just because a lot of American companies draw a large amount of income from abroad does not make them respect the market or adjust the product t…

I think despite all the article's flaws, that point you mention is very valid- google is a very American product, with the good-enough-for-us-means-good-enough-for-the-rest-of-the …

does it mean they concentrate on the Russian market? Hardly.

Why should it matter? Both english and swedish work well in the "swedish" google search box in firefox. That's the point- the Russian algo and redirection to it is simply not there…

By all means, information wants to befree.Though"depanded"shouldbe fixed to "demanded"

Google is pathetic if you search in Russian- I just started writing a blog post and was amazed at how much better Yandex is. Here is my sample searches- see for yourself http://sca…

Think about bittorrent. They are making money. Check it out http://www.bittorrent.com/ Just because you are decentralized does not mean you cannot control the tunnel! And if you ch…

Meditate. Be passionate. Think for yourself. Read fundamental books. By fundamental I mean "important", not "full of religious bigotry". I got a lot of ideas from Frank Herbert's "…