What technology does the major websites (digg.com, amazon, ebay, myspace, or Google) use?  and Why?
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They actually use many standard technologies that you and I would use (html, javascript, flash) but they also have proprietary languages which they themselves have developed. They often do this to meet special needs from their company such as improved performance, greater security, and better presentation.\n\nNow when I say proprietary I mean usually a language not built from scratch but one that is actually a new hybrid of existing technologies like maybe they mix cold fusion with C++ so that they could create a robust transaction system for adwords or something. \n\nIt costs a bit of money to build these hybrids which is why you only see the real major players being able to do this effectively (in general). To us as consumers see a nice layout and easy experience often times one transaction can include 4 different technologies (one for presentation, one for data capture, one for online processing and one for storage).\n\nBeing that most of these systems are unique, I don't think anyone can fully state all the technologies these companies use. However many of them do use mainstream languages as I mentioned earlier.... html, php, cold fusion, .net languages, flash etc.\n\nHope this helps answer your question.
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I prefer Google. It's faster, returns more relevant hits, and provides more options.
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hmmmmmmmm........i wonder what search engines are for
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My answer is google for the following reasons:\n\nPros of Google:\n\nAs a seach engine, google has the best relevance and presents the results in a way that I find easy to decide what pages are best for me. Its the best in terms of researching information.\n\nFor makin money, a #1 on google is worth many times more than a #1 on yahoo. Yahoo! blocks the top of the SERPs with sponsored ads.\n\nGoogle also has a neat interface. Yahoo is not bad too, but its interface is not that neat. The reason for that being it to be a portal. I think a nice interface is very important since people will come back more often if so.\n\nThe relevance of search results make its 'Feeling Lucky' feature pretty useful. Firefox address bar by defaults goes to 1 site listed on your search results.\n\nGoogle has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.\n\nCons of Google:\n\nHowever, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.\n\nAlso, Google at present does not provide an index for video aggregation through the web crawler, a feature which Altavista provided since 1999. The problems include accuracy of the media file. That is the reason for providing Google Videos where users have to submit videos.\n\nDue to a larger share of 'searching' community, Google has been targeted by bloggers by planting Google Bombs. Because most bloggers mention the word failure with President Bush's name, the #1 site on searching Failure is the website of President Bush.\n\nYahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker.\n\nhttp://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250
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myspace.\nask.com\nyahoo
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I go to http://www.digg.com which links to a number of technology blogs. But that's my area of interest. It may be different for a doctor ;-)
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Depends really on what sort of news you are looking for.\n\nAs far as tech news goes I personally like Digg.com because it has tech related articles and the users select what makes it to the homepage.\n\nFor news on a national level I really like CNN.com or MSNBC.com. MSNBC has always been good in the tech area since Microsoft has a stake in them.\n\nRight here at Yahoo! you can get a lot of news at news.yahoo.com . Or if you like Google the Google News Beta is a good place for lots of customized news at news.google.com
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There are tons, but a really good one besides Google and Yahoo is MSN and Dogpile. Ask Jeeves is still really good. Those are the 3 really big one that I can think of. Yahoo and Google are like billion dollar corporations, so they are the most popular.
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Yahoo ... Half of the time when I log in though, I go directly to Google to look something up.\n\nI do like the Yahoo thing 'cause it makes it easier for me to check the news, the weather, my 360, etc.\n\nYou asked ... although I have no clue as to why you would care !   LOL ;-)\n\n-- Alan
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www.digg.com\n\nThere is a list there.
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Amazon and eBay are based on buying stuff.\nYahoo is just a community, basically.\nYou can still buy things on Yahoo, but it's not the sites' entire point.\nNews, email, chat, games. People stuff.
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i use http://www.tripod.com . its by Lycos. I also like geocities. i cant think of any other one
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www.technology.com\nwww.techno.com\nwww.tech.com\nwww.technoquiz.com\nwww.wiz.com\nwww.askmetech.com
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newegg.com\namazon.com\nnextag.com\nbuy.com\nshopzilla.com
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www.myspace.com, www.facebook.com, www.isohunt.com, www.dictionary.com, www.wikipedia.com, www.photobucket.com, www.google.com, www.ebaumsworld.com
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Google, Wikipedia, my bank, NASA TV (sometimes), eBay, and two local library sites...
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firefox.  it has many good plug ins and warns  you about risky sites which to my understanding internet explorer does not.  it also loads pages faster.  it is clean and efficient.  \n\nyes i do use my computer a lot and mozilla is awsome.