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Couldn't you just move the iFrame and not need to have access to its elements?

It's not a terrible argument. To put it differently, the value to the end user is not a direct function of the degree of openness, but the utility of the degree of openness. The na…

I have a similar side project. How do you guys respond to seeing something similar launched? Assure yourself that you have better execution?

I've thought it made some sense to weight domain keywords considering the number of people I observe using the google search box as an address bar.

Numbers of committers sampled per language might be helpful in identifying potential bias.

It is against the terms. http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&#38... "...advertisers cannot use destination URLs that automatically redirect to another website …

This is ending up on marketwatch.com only after a JS redirect from the ad landing page. http://www.goldfellow.com/currentmarketwatchlink/

This algorithm change could come across as more editorial and less empirical. It's publicized as highly targeted ("slightly over 2% of queries"), responding to small tech discussio…

At what point does Google cross over from "ranked by algorithm" to "ranked by algorithm selection as editorialized by Googlers and bloggers?" Publicly discussing algorithms changes…

It also pains me to see how the web has forced us back a decade in terms of what's an impressive UI feat. When your hands are tied, undoing a knot becomes notable.

What is the technical difference between Google being able to accurately measure the volume of spam, and Google removing the spam?

But the idea that it’s doing something better, new or innovative is largely PR and faffery. Facebook is incredibly innovative at growing its user base. No other social network has …

This feels like mostly a PR piece to me. And reports seem conflicting. Google doesn't seem to say what they did beyond that they "developed an algorithmic solution which detects th…

What if my ideas are smaller parts of different things (i.e. a cycle, which can not be in a tree)? Maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way.

I've been working on a similar project, but I've been moving away from the tree structure lately because I found it too rigid. I don't think all my ideas fit into a tree.

I can confirm that there were foxit references in pre-beta source code edit: i think this was the reference i was thinking of, is it for this feature, or is it unrelated? http://ww…