after acception

I've found that I've been left far away from others,and confused with my disciplines.too much english?dose it slow me down?well,I hope that it worths.obviously,it took me too much time,for instance,software architecture in practice,concrete mathematics or even the art of computer programming(knuth's work).once again,what a pity with my poor english,u have to enforce yourself.

Like Yahoo, Google Adds Customized Search Engine

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 — Google introduced a tool Monday that allows Web sites and blogs to offer visitors a customized version of its search engine, narrowing down its vast index so the results are more relevant for users.

Called the Google Custom Search Engine, the new product lets Web site owners choose which pages they want to include in their index and rank the pages as they like.

Yahoo has introduced a similar product, called Search Builder, but Google says its service allows more customization.

“We have some features we feel are quite unique,” said Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products and user experience. “We allow people to restrict or prioritize search results based on the sites they’ve chosen.”

The new service is free. Web site publishers split the revenue from the text advertisements that Google places on the search results through its AdSense program. Nonprofit organizations, government agencies and educational institutions are not required to include ads.

“The trouble with Google is you do get a lot of noise,” said Andrew Frank, a research director in New York with Gartner, a market research firm. “Stuff gets through that isn’t really relevant, either intentionally, or there are sometimes ambiguities. This definitely helps improve the relevance and skip the noise.”

Mr. Frank said the new service had benefits for Google and its advertisers. “For people in the AdSense network, it’s a way to increase inventory,” he said, “and for Google it’s an extension of reach.”

Custom search engines are already up and running on a dozen or so sites. Macworld.com has been using a preliminary version of the product for the last month, customized to cover several Mac-oriented sites owned by Mac Publishing, a unit of IDG.

Jason Snell, vice president and editorial director at Macworld, said his site had been paying to use a search program by another company. But users had been unhappy with the results, and “in the last month, we made the decision to drop it like a rock,” Mr. Snell said. “We pulled it out and put Google in its place. There’s no barrier to switching to Google because Google already knows about all our pages.”

Mr. Snell said the customization tool was easy to configure. “I think you’ll see a lot of people switch their search engine from whatever it might be to this,” he said. “I think people have a comfort zone with Google searches.”

To build a customized index, users fill out a few Web-based forms, and are then given the code for a search box that they can cut and paste into their own Web pages.

“I think what’s going to drive usage is that it’s really easy for users to come up with a search engine in a matter of minutes,” Ms. Mayer said.

Shares of Google hit a record intraday high of $484.64 on Monday, after a strong earnings report last week. The stock closed at $480.71, up $21.11, or 4.6 percent.

Google said Thursday that its third-quarter profit nearly doubled from a year earlier.

The growth came as Google’s largest rival, Yahoo, has suffered from weak sales of search and display advertising. The profit report prompted several Wall Street analysts to raise their ratings on Google stock.

Profit Doubles at Google as It Continues to Expand

good job.

Chinese Government Relaxes Its Total Ban on Wikipedia

The Chinese government last week appeared to lift its block on the English-language version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, an unexpected move that comes almost a year to the day when access was first denied. The Chinese-language site, however, remains blocked within China.

“We are pleased to see the change, but would like to see the Chinese version unblocked, too,” said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the encyclopedia created by voluntary contributors. “We don’t know what prompted the block and don’t know what prompted the unblock.”

Even days after word first spread on the Internet about the change in access, Wikipedia contributors and administrators in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong said they were trying to determine if any English-language articles were still being blocked. Andrew Lih, a Chinese-American in Beijing researching a book about Wikipedia, reported on his blog, www.andrewlih.com/blog, that he could get access to many controversial subjects, but could not read the English-language article about the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Internet companies and nonprofits like Wikipedia have been forced to choose between cooperating with the Chinese government and losing access to the growing online audience there. Organizations like Reporters Without Borders have criticized Yahoo, Google and MSN, saying they have “yielded to the Chinese government’s censorship requests.”

The Chinese-language Wikipedia has more than 90,000 articles, and one long-time contributor to the site said that “conservatively 40 percent are mainland contributors.” That contributor, who insisted on anonymity for fear of antagonizing the Chinese government, also wrote in an e-mail message yesterday that, “although I have no solid evidence, the growth of the number of mainland users is much lowered,” citing the ban on the site last October and the creation of the more restricted “Baidupedia,” by Baidu, China’s largest search engine. Still, the contributor concluded, “no matter the situation, some access is definitely better than no access.”

Mr. Wales attended a Chinese Wikipedia conference this summer in Hong Kong, which had about 130 attendees, including an estimated 20 from the mainland. “It was a very emotional event for them, it was the first time they had met each other from Taiwan, the mainland and Hong Kong,” he said. “It was a big deal for them that the mainlanders couldn’t access Wikipedia.” NOAM COHEN

with a good feeling

after the interview,I have a perfect feeling and appreciate my own performance.
whatever the result is,I think I have found my confident back.
thank u to every body.

I.B.M. Division Moves to China(actually,is amoy)

I.B.M. has moved its global procurement headquarters to southern China from the suburbs of New York City to “capitalize on emerging market opportunities.”

I.B.M., based in Armonk, N.Y., spends 30 percent of its $40 billion annual procurement in Asia, the company said in a statement yesterday, confirming the move to Shenzhen that was first announced to suppliers in May. This is the first time that I.B.M., the world’s biggest computer services company, has moved the headquarters of one of its largest divisions to China.

Companies like I.B.M. and Microsoft are expanding in China to take advantage of lower costs and to gain market share in the world’s most populous nation.

The chief procurement officer for I.B.M., John Paterson, relocated from Somers, N.Y., and started work in Shenzhen yesterday, said Amanda Garland, an I.B.M. spokeswoman.

Demand for software and services across Asia is growing, and the company wants to develop new markets and suppliers to meet the demand, I.B.M. said.

Google combines word processing, spreadsheets

Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

here are my books,hihi.

software architecture

question:
what do you think?do you agree or disagree?why?
my answer:
I will choose medially,I think it may be right but not suitable.
As the words in the first paragraph:"it must be pointed out that the field is plowing old ground in several areas."I don't think that there are something wrong with this viewpoint,but,it's not pretty suitable.why?I will show you in steps.
Why it isn't wrong?Nowadays,knowledge is exploding rapidly,we can't do anything just by one person or group that is just in one field.In the other words,we need communication between different fields.That is why someone said:"Standing upon giant,you'll achieve further."Now I want to say:"Standing upon pyramid basing on suitable but different bricks,you'll achieve much more further."If we can extract suitable concepts from the multiple fields,redefine them,make them efficient,I think that's all right to do so.
Of course,we must know why we employ such concepts from other fields.If done,I'm sure that there must be some differences compared to the prior one.For example,architecture,as described in the article,has different meanings and usages in varied direction.So,that's why I said it's not pretty suitable.We are plowing old ground,that's fine,but,we didn't just do plowing,we plow it in different ways with different purposes,and get different results.We don't do it again,but do it another.
that's all.

Google said to set sight on YouTub

YouTub
YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site that has yet to celebrate its first anniversary or its first profit, is quickly becoming the must-have prize for media and technology giants.
Google is in discussions to acquire YouTube for $1.6 billion, people involved in the talks said yesterday. While the talks are in the early stages, and may fall apart, the size of Google’s offer may push YouTube closer to a deal. Other companies have also expressed interest and could swoop in with a higher offer.

Google launches search service for computer code(zz)

By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is introducing a new search service -- strictly for computer programmers only.

The Web search leader said late on Wednesday it is introducing Google Code Search, a site that simplifies how software developers search for programming code to improve existing software or create new programs.

Google product manager Tom Stocky said the Mountain View, California-based company is set to help programmers sift through billions of lines of computer source code using its familiar search box to uncover snippets of reusable software.

"For a long time it has been sort of an unsolved problem," said Stocky, a product manager in the developer products group. "It is hard to find references to this sort of data," he said.

Google is applying the same machine-driven techniques it uses to help consumers search the Web for text, images, video and books to help professional programmers as well as computer enthusiasts overcome stumbling blocks to writing code.

Searchers can seek out specific programming terms or computer languages and dive deep into compressed code to locate specific features. Users also can narrow a search to find software code based on specific licensing requirements, which is a big deal in warding off future patent litigation.

Similar to how a consumer might type a few words into a standard Google search box to find an answer, programmers can seek out relevant lines of code at http://google.com/codesearch and find a range of search results that link them to answers.

It's just that the results are for machine-readable phrases like: "go{2}gle" "hello," world" or "^int printk."

NO SECRET CODE

It's commonplace, when looking to improve a particular line of software, for most code writers to search the Web for quick tips. But finding actual programming code rather than just discussions about a particular coding problem is tough.

To meet this need, special sites serving computer developers have sprung up that offer repositories of code. Most are small, typically require membership and are often devoted to only a specific class of software or problem.

Several software programmers say Google Code Search appears to answer some of the basic nightmares of building software by creating a single place where one can trawl through all the publicly available computer code in the world.

Google searches through code repositories that are popular among programmers -- CollabNet's Subversion and another alternative called CVS, Stocky said.

The service began as a way for Google programmers to search through internal company code. It added a search of publicly available code and then recently decided that it might as well open up the service to others.

The results that come back from searches on Google Code also link directly to the compressed data files in which programs are often stored.

"Instead of searching Web pages, developers are searching over billions of lines of actual code," Stocky said.

Initially, Google Code Search is advertising free. Should the site prove popular, Stocky said Google may consider running pay-per-click advertising along search results, the way it makes money from its more mainstream search services, he said.

Temporal Database

Definition A temporal database is a database that supports some aspect of time, not counting user-defined time.

Previously Used Names Time-oriented database, historical database.

Discussion of Naming The concept of a temporal database is defined separately due to its importance. The discussion in glossary entry Temporal as Modifier applies here.

opal

planning to implement a software based on opal.

opal classes:
there are four key fundamental classes opalmanager,opalendpoint,opalconnection,opalcall.