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Google has spent its entire existence trying to find and prioritize all online content, but they have never had the real time answer to their most important question: which content is most relevant? Twitter gives them just that.
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This creates an interesting dilemma. We have the content creator, Twitter, being crawled, scraped, and indexed by the search engine, Google, but Twitter may not even get the benefit of that in the form of traffic coming to Twitter.
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Twitter does nothing right now. It just keeps on being Twitter and watching the number of relevant, time-sensitive links continue to grow. Google, and the other search engines, continue to crawl, scrape and index Twitter. At some point in the future, Twitter contacts Google, along with Yahoo and Microsoft and lets them know that it’s building its own search engine based on all of the extremely relevant content that Twitter has on its site and will be blocking all external crawlers. -
While Arab users of the Internet have increased by nearly 1,000 per cent over the past seven years, and Arab surfers search for billions of items of information daily, material in Arabic can be hard to come by.
This, however, may be about to change, at least if Gaballah and his team have their way. At Google "we have decided to offer tools like Knol [a knol is Google's name for the smallest unit of knowledge] and blogs where people can write their own thoughts for others to read to help Arab users of the Internet by increasing Arabic content on the Web
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hamalawy on the fight for free unions: approach and progress.
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New research by Harvard School of Public Health found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles showed a two-thirds increase of BPA in their urine.
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A long-term industrial plan has been laid out to turn Egypt into a main export hub for medium technology manufactured products in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The initiative is led by the Industrial Modernisation Centre (IMC) that so far has serviced some 12,000 industrial projects in different sectors.
"Our major objective is to maximise exports and gradually shift to a higher technological component in local products," said Hesham Wagdi, technical assistance and national programmes director at the IMC. Some 80 per cent of the IMC's clients fall within the small enterprise category while seven per cent is medium-sized enterprises.
According to Wagdi, research and development are at the forefront of IMC's plan for 2009. A LE100 million fund to promote research and innovation on the national, sectoral and individual levels was established in collaboration with the Ministry of Scientific Research.
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Monday, 25 May 2009 by Cairene
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