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FORGET ME NOT Where do old Web pages go to die? If they're lucky, the Internet Archive, a nonprofit project to preserve the history of the Web. The archive recently marked its fifth birthday by launching the Wayback Machine web.archive.org) Type any URL into this free service, and you can see what the page looked like in the old days (1996). The archive has already devoted a special collection to the Sept. 11 attacks...
...secret of Plattner's success can be found in SAP's new marketing campaign. "In the old New Economy, it seemed that all a company needed to succeed was a URL and a marketing budget. But in the new New Economy companies are measured by the value they create. Can you increase productivity? Reduce costs? Discover new business?" These are questions software companies - in fact all companies - ought to be asking themselves. Products that make businesses more efficient will be in big demand in an economic downturn, and SAP has been honing its skills in this area for nearly three...
...popular search engines are bad - in fact they're better than ever and improving constantly - but the technology they employ is no match for the sheer speed and diversity of Web growth. Search engines rely mostly on crawlers, software robots that hop from site to site and from one URL (uniform resource locator, or Web address) to another, indexing the contents of pages as they go. For most pages, crawlers do a fine, if slow, job. But when they bump into sites where information is held inside a database, they grind to a halt...
Participants can opt to be matched with females, males, or both. They can also send the site's URL to their friends...
After I slipped her the URL, she said, "you bum," only she used another word that means much the same thing. We both knew at once that this would be a very, very bad game. You can find it yourself at popcap.com a four-month-old site that offers a raft of free games, no questions asked. The games aren't downloaded to you but streamed as tiny Java applets to your Web browser. They go away when you close your browser. But why would you want...