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Re:Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go? on Friday November 06, 2009 @12:23PM (#926415)
The results shown on the map are organic!
Hardly any software company would be willing to share such stats. I like the marketplace idea tho.
Re:Don Dodge is Leaving Microsoft on Thursday November 05, 2009 @12:05AM (#923353)
I am sure he does fine not even looking for a new job
Re:Ask HN: How can you encourage users to generate content? on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @10:21AM (#919431)
1- Agree with others on paying students to write reviews.

2- You need to improve your UI significantly IMO. From your home page it seems that you would prefer users to register before using/contributing to the site, which I think is not a good idea. Your homepage should be immediately useful to the potential users/contributors. for examples you should have a searchbox(with auto-complete feature for the name of universities and courses at least). Or list of most actively discussed courses, etc.

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Re:Why are Facebook, Digg and Twitter So Hard To Scale? on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @03:39PM (#879900)
This is in fact an unsolved problem. Current database systems cannot handle this level of connectivity. Facebook can't do a "push" because of all the features they support. It gets extremely complicated if they push complex data into user's mailbox. And twitter cannot do "pull" so they can avoid putting a cap on the number friends/followers but then that's why they cannot really add any feature.
Re:Will Amazon Become the Wal-Mart of the Web? on Saturday September 19, 2009 @09:59PM (#832605)
Wal-Mart is the Wal-Mart of the web. Their online holidays' sale numbers are higher than Amazon. edit: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/walmart.com+amazon.com well this shows Amazon gets 20M more traffic than Wal-Mart during peak of holiday season, but I am pretty sure Wal-Mart's sales were higher on 06