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European Advocate General Finds Against Trademark Bidding in Interflora Case
Mar 24th
The European Advocate General is recommending that the Court of Justice of the European Union rule against retailer Marks & Spencer for bidding on the trademarked terms of Interflora, the flower delivery network company. If the Court of Justice acts on the findings, it could effectively spell…
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MySQL Fork Drizzle Finally Releases First General Availability Version
Mar 17th
Drizzle, a lightweight fork of MySQL, released its first general availability version today. Drizzle is designed for multicore environments and cloud applications. Unlike NoSQL databases, Drizzle still uses structure queried language. Instead, it attempts to improve performance by cutting the database server down to its core.
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The project was started by Sun employees in 2008, and Rackspace hired the team to work on Drizzle full time in Adrian Otto:
Drizzle dispenses with views, triggers, prepared statements, and much more. Instead additional features can be added via plugins. Drizzle makes no attempt at backwards compatibility with legacy systems such as 32-bit environments. Here’s a partial list of what Drizzle has kept or dispensed with, from a post by tk on the Rackspace blog:
1 – Micro-Kernel Design, with modular interfaces to plug in features and functions without touching the core code. API’s for Replication, Storage Engines, Logging, Authentication, Client Protocols, etc.
2 – No triggers or stored procedures. That stuff is bloat as done in MySQL, and Drizzle has other ways to deal with these needs. These capabilities can be added in later as needed such that they are done right.
3 – Only UTF8 support, not a multitude of language encodings and collations. Keep it simple. This is the web.
4 – Way Less Source Code, where MySQL has well over a million lines of code, Drizzle is just under 300K lines.
5 – Drizzle Client Protocol, that’s pluggable and Asynchronous capable with built-in sharding support and built-in checksum support and BSD license so you can package it in commercial software with no license drama.
6 – Default Storage Engine is InnoDB, for ACID compliance but others can still be used. MyISAM is gone. Long live the Queen!
7 – Pluggable AAA, so integrating with your LDAP user database through PAM is simple as pie, if if you don’t want any auth (think memcached) just don’t load the plugin, and get a nice performance boost.
8 – Replication will be everything you ever wanted in a replication system. You hate MySQL replication? You now love Drizzle.
9 – Logging is pluggable so you can log to Syslog, a query analyzer, Gearman, or whatever you want to plug in.
10 – Query Rewriting is supported. If you have a misbehaving application, you can fix it at the database if desired.
11 – The Data Dictionary is redone so that no internal tables materialize, and there is only a single code execution path. This means all your base run faster.
12 – FRM Files are Gone. Yep, ever been snagged by the contents of an FRM file not matching what’s in the database? Cry no more.
13 – The MySQL Client Protocol is supported so you can use Drizzle with most applications without modification.
14 – It’s Easy to Build from Source. Ever tried to compile MySQL from source. Hah! Yeah, drizzle builds like butter.
We covered Drizzle in our look at non-relational databases back in 2009.
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Google Refuses To Release Data CT Attorney General Wants To Check For Criminal Activity
Dec 18th
Outgoing Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal requested the data collected during Google’s Streetview data recordings and the civil investigative demand had a Friday deadline which Google did not meet, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“We did not want and have never used the payload data in any of our products and services,” Google said, the LA Times stated. “We want to delete the data as soon as possible and will continue to work with the authorities to determine the best way forward, as well as to answer their further questions and concerns.”
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Connecticut Attorney General Threatens Legal Action Over Google WiFi Data
Dec 17th
Connecticut’s outgoing Attorney General says legal action is a possibility after Google refused to turn over personal data that it’s collected via unsecured wifi networks. Richard Blumenthal tells the Wall Street Journal that he’s “disappointed” by Google’s…
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General Contractors in Worcester, MA, Join SEO Program to Help Greater Number … – PR.com (press release)
Dec 17th
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Google AdSense Tests General Category Blocking
Oct 5th
The Google AdSense blog announced they are testing an expanded version of category blocking called general category blocking. Google explained:
General category blocking will allow you to block even more categories of ads from appearing on your site. We’re testing this feature with 170 more specific categories, including finance, travel, job, and automotive. This feature [...]
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Texas Attorney General Investigating Google & Antitrust Issues
Sep 3rd
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conducting an investigation into Google’s business practices as they relate to search listings, in particular whether Google is manipulating its paid and editorial results in a way that violates antitrust laws.
We received a tip about the investigation this week, and Google confirmed today that an investigation started in July. [...]
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What kind of a profession is SEO specialist? Can you give some specific (not general) tasks that are involved?
Feb 20th
Could you be specific please.. Also what kind of qualification does one need to become a SEO.
