More than one month has now passed since we sent our demand for sponsorship and still we didn't receive any single answer from DELL. Our two pages, nicely written letter, was sent on the 18th of December 2008 to the marketing department at their headquarter in Geneva.
Beginning of January, we decided to try and contact them per phone. Unfortunately they don't allow "normal" people or companies to speak directly with someone of…
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Slowly we are arriving at the limits of our current hardware due to the increasing amount of time required for crawling Swiss websites. As a matter of fact it is quite normal that the crawling takes more and more time due to the increasing index size and the amount of data gathered. The crawling process itself is still quite fast but merging the update crawls to the master index as…
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As stated in my last post, we want to make the TooT search engine usable by each Swiss citizen therefore requiring an interface available in all the three main languages of Switzerland, which are German, French and Italian. Until today, we were missing Italian as none of us speaks this language.
Luckily an old friend of mine called Daniel, a native Italian speaker, was so kind to do the translations for…
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This last week has been quite a thrilling week on the search engines market with the announcement of Jerry Yang, the CEO of Yahoo!, leaving the company after just one year. For those who don't remember, Jerry Yang has co-founded Yahoo! back in the mid-nineties and has left after earning quite a lot of money. But last year when things started to go awry for Yahoo! he was called back…
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The first crawling tests have started this week-end, to be exact on Saturday the 15th of November 2008, and have already given quite some good content to start developing the TooT search engine front end. There are a few small issues of course, like every new starting project but we are confident that we can resolve them in a timely manner.
One of these issues is the handling of special characters…
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