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How do Search Engines Work?

February 4th, 2009

Search engines do not really search the World Wide Web directly. Each one searches a database of web pages that it has harvested and cached. When you use a search engine, you are always searching a somewhat stale copy of the real web page. When you click on links provided in a search engine’s search results, you retrieve the current version of the page.

Search engine databases are selected and built by computer robot programs called spiders. These “crawl” the web, finding pages for potential inclusion by following the links in the pages they already have in their database. They cannot use imagination or enter terms in search boxes that they find on the web.

If a web page is never linked from any other page, search engine spiders cannot find it. The only way a brand new page can get into a search engine is for other pages to link to it, or for a human to submit its URL for inclusion. All major search engines offer ways to do this.

After spiders find pages, they pass them on to another computer program for “indexing.” This program identifies the text, links, and other content in the page and stores it in the search engine database’s files so that the database can be searched by keyword and whatever more advanced approaches are offered, and the page will be found if your search matches its content.

Many web pages are excluded from most search engines by policy. The contents of most of the searchable databases mounted on the web, such as library catalogs and article databases, are excluded because search engine spiders cannot access them. All this material is referred to as the “Invisible Web” — what you don’t see in search engine results.

 

Courtesy: UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops

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Unit Testing with Flex 3.0

February 4th, 2009

I had heard a lot about Test Driven Development(TDD). I wanted to know what TDD was and wanted to employ the same in the development of my flex project. I searched as found an article by Neil Webb. He has nicely explained about starting the TDD in flex.

This link may be helpful to those who want to apply TDD in flex applications.

Unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) for Flex and ActionScript 3.0

Try the TDD and find out its power. Personally, I have found this to be a great process to develop bug-free applications.

Cheers!!

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An immortal love…..

January 30th, 2009

(A girl and guy were speeding over 100 mph on a motorcycle)
Girl: Slow down. Im scared.
Guy: No this is fun.
Girl: No its not. Please, its to scary!
Guy: Then tell me you love me.
Girl: Fine, I love you. Slow down!
Guy: Now give me a BIG hug.

(Girl hugs him)
Guy: Can u take my helmet off and put it on? Its bugging me.

In the paper the next day: A motorcycle had crashed into a building because of break failure. Two people were on the motorcycle, but only one survived.

The truth was that halfway down the road, the guy realized that his breaks broke, but he didn’t want to let the girl know. Instead, he had her say she loved him, felt her hug one last time, then had her wear his helmet so she would live even though it meant he would die.

I read this post somewhere in the web. The story was short and heart-touching. The lessons to be learnt are too long. Lets discuss them here..

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A trip to Shivapuri….a day to remember

January 26th, 2009

May, the 2nd, 2007

I would say this was the first hike I ever made with my friends. Santosh, Nischal, Shiraj, Janesh(JD) and I made a wonderful team. We set off for journey at about 8 in the morning. By 9:15, we had reached the base of Shivapuri national park. With lots of enthusiasm, we got off the microbus and started heading towards the park.

We were very hungry and in a good hunting mood. After searching for a while, we found a hotel where we could eat dal-bhat-tarkari(DBT) along with CHICKEN ROAST. The CR was so good that we carried some with us. It was almost 10:30 when we finished eating one of the best DBT. We bought the tickets and entered inside the park. We were very excited and in a real hiking mood. We entered the forest and continued to walk through the road. “Walking straight away through the road” was interesting but could have been better. We tried something different. After walking for some distance, we decided we need some rest and sat down for a while. Every one of us had our own style of taking rest. We climbed up to the Gumba and had some photographs there. The most interesting thing we had there was a couple of cups of special drink, special because it was free.

After being somewhat refreshed, we climbed down and kept walking until we saw the grand “Tare Bhir”. We all had the same feeling but it was Santosh who spoke out, “Let’s climb that hill”. WOW, what an offer it was. Everyone agreed as if it was a preplan. We started climbing straight up. The hard-to-climb rocks were challenging us and we were ready to face the challenge, including Shiraj who was having a soft of problem with his stomach (guess what….?). We started the journey, which I would say, was adventurous. We thought we were the first hikers to climb that hill, which may or may not be the truth. Hands on hands, we were supporting each other in climbing the hill. Shiraj was getting weak but he accompanied. The rocks were getting stiffer as we elevated. At a point, the place was so steep that we could only see the ground meters down. We kept strong to the bushes and kept climbing. There was no room for slippery legs. The more we climbed up, the more adventurous the journey became. Thanks for a packet of biscuit that was providing Shiraj the energy to push forward. The approaching top was motivating us to climb more and the increasing difficulty was deteriorating our spirit. We were only about 20 meters shy of the top, when Shiraj declared he can’t continue. We could not force him as we know he was not fit and finally decided that we’ll complete the mission some other day.

Actually, the fun we had that day had already been memorable. We sat down and started eating the CR (Chicken Roast) that we had bought with us. They tasted fabulous. We then climbed down the hill and returned back via another path. The return path was even more interesting. We passed across “Salla Ghari”. Nischal glorified the moment by several jokes and advising us different postures for photographs in the beautiful “Salla Ghari”. We returned playing with the “Sallako Ful”.

Looking down the slippery slope full of pine leaves, Janesh proposed “Guys, Let’s slide down”. It was the start of next interesting event. We slid down the slope. (Later, I found that the pocket of my pant was torn). We reached to the forest behind the NMC. Janesh left us from there and rest of us took micro to return back.

The day was full of events. It was a real hike and to say the truth, it set the true  meaning of hiking, at least to me.

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