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Microsoft Partner Helps Internet-Monitoring Company Crawl 750 Million Pages Monthly
White Papers Affinity Systems, a Microsoft Certified Partner, developed a system for Brandimensions that monitors the Internet to track and help protect brands. Rather than using an Oracle database, the solution relies on Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
Tech spending could crawl back to life
News Tech spending could accelerate toward the middle of next year, according to a poll of chief information officers, a trend that could benefit Microsoft and a few select companies. Fifty-one percent of the respondents in the poll conducted by Merrill...
[October 25, 2002, 9:24]
Slows browsing to a crawl
Member Review I've used NAV for years. The horror stories I've heard with Norton Utilities have made their way into NAV 2004 Pro. Live Update wouldn't work so I had to download updates from the Symantec Web site. Browsing slowed so much that pages wouldn't load.
[March 10, 2004, 18:05]
A Year Ago: Japanese develop tiny robot
News Japanese electronics companies have developed a micro-machine the size of an ant that can crawl around thin pipes, inspect and even fix problems at power plants, officials said Monday. The robots, which can crawl into the tiniest gaps around...
[June 21, 2000, 7:09]
LookSmart draws on desktop power
News The goal of this technology is to be able to crawl every document on the Internet every day. In January, LookSmart quietly bought the assets of Grub, an Oklahoma-based developer of technology that lets people donate their computers' otherwise...
[March 21, 2003, 12:18]
Search payments cause a wave of concern for surfers
News Paid inclusion is a class of search marketing in which companies, such as Yahoo-owned Inktomi, accept fees to "crawl" Web sites more often so that fresh product data is included in the index. Under financial pressure, many such services have...
[October 14, 2003, 15:15]
Secret codes 'not hidden in Web images'
News Provost and Honeyman wrote a program called Crawl to search eBay for images to download, and it retrieved more than two million images ranging between 20KB and 400KB in size. Of the two million images downloaded by Crawl, the researchers found 17...
[September 26, 2001, 13:27]
Intel's SS4000-E - so you're having issues with one too, eh ...
Blog Ok, the transfer rate sped the system up from a crawl to a slow walk. I realized immediately that something was awry when I tried processing out to the box; the system came to a screeching crawl. About six weeks ago we realized that we needed more...
[April 15, 2008, 10:03]
Google Mini Search Appliance review
Reviews The Mini can index a maximum of 100,000 documents, so the most likely parameters you'll want to control are the URL patterns you want it to crawl. The simplest configuration is to just specify a name for your collection, give it an initial URL...
[August 8, 2005, 8:55]
How to fully degunk a PC to get rid of crapware
White Papers Crapware slows your PC to a crawl, often causes instability and crashes, eats up valuable screen real estate, and may even border on malware. Yet it inevitably finds its way onto your computer -- and may even come WITH your computer when you buy it.
[June 25, 2007, 14:04]
Japanese develop tiny robot
News The robots, which can crawl into the tiniest gaps around bundles of pipes, are expected to speed up inspection and repairs at electric and nuclear power plants because they can be sent in while the plants keep running.
[June 21, 1999, 15:31]
Microsoft adds malware detection to web tool
News The software company announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it had updated its Crawl Issues tool to alert webmasters about possible malware on their sites. Crawl Issues is designed to give webmasters details about problems that Microsoft's search...
[November 27, 2008, 16:42]
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil DungeonDoom XP mod
Downloads This mod for the Doom 3 expansion simulates a dungeon-crawl in the style of games such as Diablo, complete with random levels, experience points, and magic spells. This new version includes new quests, monster abilities, scrolls, and more.
[September 29, 2005, 10:52]
Stream Computing - not just a load of babble
Blog Comment When you incorporate a middle-lane hog zone where everything slows to a crawl behind the first chunk of data that refuses to move to the left, then I'll be more convinced. Hmm, not sure how real this all is.
[May 26, 2009, 15:50]
Inspiron owners complain of SP2 slowdown
Talkback My Inspiron 1150 also slowed down to a crawl after installing the SP 2 patch. Slowdown Fixed! The solution I used was sent in to ZDNet by Inspiron tech Matt Loney. Check it out) Just a few mouse clicks and your free of grief.
[October 11, 2004, 21:04]
JavaScript bug-hunting tool revealed
News The tool, called Jikto, can make an unsuspecting web user's PC silently crawl and audit public websites, and send the results to a third party, Hoffman said. A security researcher at ShmooCon in Washington on Saturday demonstrated, but did not...
[March 26, 2007, 9:38]
Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow
Talkback Even if Microsoft's implementation is faster initially the required security patches needed later on will slow it down to a crawl any way. In the mean time the Open specification will improve in all directions, stability, performance, functionality...
[May 27, 2006, 23:37]
Awful
Member Review Slowed my pc to a crawl. I have a 56Kbps modem connection and frequently don't wish to log onto the Web to work at my PC. But this crock just keeps on attempting to dial in even with automatic update and load on startup disabled.
[October 21, 2003, 11:13]
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search
White Papers Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. This paper re-examines that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alternative ways in which a search service might be supported.
[May 25, 2007, 1:00]
