Google's secret of success? Dealing with failure

By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

BURLINGAME, Calif.--The technical wizardry behind Google's successful search engine may come down to a blindingly obvious insight: PCs crash.

On Wednesday, Urs Hoelzle, a vice president of engineering and of operations at the search giant, shed some light on how Google's data centers operate. Many people consider the company's operations expertise more valuable than the actual search algorithms that launched the enterprise.

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Kanoodle Debuts Local Targeting Tool
by Gavin O'Malley, Tuesday, Mar 8, 2005 7:15 AM EST

CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING SERVICES PROVIDER KANOODLE yesterday announced the addition of a local targeting tool to its content-targeted suite of products. Local Target, currently built into Kanoodle's ContextTarget program, means to give advertisers the ability to reach local customers via a topic-matching approach to listings on market-specific pages. The product will allow local and national businesses to better target customers in specific markets, drive them to brick-and-mortar outlets, and increase brand penetration in specific geographic areas, according to Kanoodle CEO Lance Podell. "It's the first sponsored links product built solely for local targeting on content pages," Podell said.

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By CNET News.com Staff

The Voice Over the Net conference in Silicon Valley this week puts the spotlight on the fast-growing trend of Internet phone calling. Google, AOL and Michael Powell have all taken the stage.

VoIP providers work to lasso smaller businesses

New products and services puts Internet telephony into the reach of smaller companies.
March 9, 2005

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Blogs And Your Work From Home Internet Business
By Tom Worsley

As a work from home internet business entrepreneur you have several really good tools on the internet you can take advantage of in order to build your work from home business. A blog is just one of those tools that you can use and should be taking advantage of.
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