...45 million Advance Technological Features a. Ask3D – merges all results with images & maps b. Morph – technological advances like morph c. AskEraser- which ensures privacy OPPORTUNITY Rapidly growing market Dynamic users who are ready to experiment Inability of major players apart from Google to hold on to their market share WEAKNESS Lack of first mover advantage in newer markets Tarnished image about its negative campaign Some of the features aren't user friendly THREAT Domination of Google Competition from other local players INCREASE MARKET SHARE ENRICHING THE CORE – “THE SEARCH EXPERIENCE’ Ask.com’s new infrastructure has improved freshness and, in particular, navigational queries. This is the new Edison algorithm, which went live at the end of March 2008. Edison is a compilation of Ask.com’s core search technologies, including Teoma’s subject specific communities with Direct Hit’s click tracking algorithm layered on top of it. Edison is six-times as fresh as the previous technology they were using. It brings Ask.com’s best assets all together to build a better algorithm than what they had before. 1 They have to start on the lines of "geo-bias" solutions, "news injection," leveraging blogs using Bloglines (which they have already acquired), but it seems algorithm is not as important, as would be freshness, depth, and returning relevant unstructured data from the web. Ask.com greatly over-indexes in certain categories, such as...
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...Ask.com "Just when you thought Microsoft and Yahoo were going to get on with their lives, it’s (Ask.com) going to paralyze them once again." CEO of Ask.com after acquisition of Lexcio Publishing Group1 Ask.com is America’s fourth largest search engine with a considerable fan following and market share of around 4%. Recently Ask.com has expanded into European and Asian market. Ask.com is known for its technical innovation even thought it is not a market leader in search engine technology, yet it is one search engine which refuses to fade away. Interestingly it has been seen that while Google continues to expand, while Yahoo and Windows Live are struggling to maintain their market share, and one time giant Time Warner (AOL) is now reduced to a small player and gets its search results from Google, Ask.com has managed to retain its small but considerable market share. This may be attributed to heavy spending by Ask’s parent company IAC on advertising and Marketing. But continuous innovation like Ask3D which merges all results with images and maps in same result page, technological advance like morph which intelligently shows most relevant result type, and sometimes cashing on Market situations like the introduction of AskEraser after privacy concerns erupted when AOL released data of 650,000 users have managed to keep Ask.com in the market2. It has not been shy of competing with the market leaders like Google, its Ask3D feature was a winner over Google’s Universal Search technology3...
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...describe peal and this is why Pearl deserves more sympathy because she didn't ask to be a product of sin, she is both a blessing and curse and she has to live with a broken family. Pearl is a product of sin of Hester and Dimmesdale. Hester and Dimmesdale are both sinner but Hester is the only one that has to express her wrong doing to everyone by wearing a badge “A” for adultery. The towns people automatically make assumptions and judgements about pearl based on her mother's actions. The towns people usually associate Pearl with “evil” and not a every day little girl. Hawthorne talks about pearl “ we have yet hardly spoken of the infant, the little creature, whose innocent had sprung...of the guilty passion” (Hawthorne chapter 6). Hawthorne uses these words “sprung” and “guilty passion” to show that pearl was born away that is not acceptable for society....
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...sheet of paper and asks her class what color the sheet of paper is. The class will view the paper in different colors because their view was affected by the different color tinted glasses. In the same way, our view will impact how we look at life. (109 words) The question of origin asks how life began and how mankind came into existence. God created life out of nothing (Genesis 1:1-25) and then He created man, male and female, in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27). The question of identity asks what it means to be human and if humans are more important than animals. Mankind is a special creation of God because we were created in the image of God and a little lower than the heavenly beings (Psalms 8:5). Humans are more important than animals, when God created mankind, we were given the responsibility of caring for the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and animals that move upon the earth (Genesis 1:28). The question of meaning or purpose asks we exist. We exist to love the Lord, to fear Him, to walk in His ways (Deuteronomy 10:12) and to serve Him and keep his commandments (Deuteronomy 11:13). The question of morality asks what is meant by right and wrong and how I should live. Right and wrong are based on God’s holy standard. As Christians, we believe in the fall of Adam and Eve and when they ate from the forbidden tree and as a result we are all born sinners (Psalms 51:5). We cannot be saved through good works but by allowing God to into our lives, accepting His gift...
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...Description The program for the final project consists of a program that will give the user the average age of their family members and the names of any family members that live in Texas. This program will take the input of family member name, age, and state they live in to give the results of average age and names of those who live in Texas. Analysis This program will need to allow the user to enter family member names, age, and state in which they live. I will use an array to allow for this information to be added. The array will ask for name, age, and state. Once the information has been entered, I will use a function to calculate the average age. This calculation will be based the addition of all ages divided by the number of times the array was looped through. Program Description The program for the final project consists of a program that will give the user the average age of their family members and the names of any family members that live in Texas. This program will take the input of family member name, age, and state they live in to give the results of average age and names of those who live in Texas. Analysis This program will need to allow the user to enter family member names, age, and state in which they live. I will use an array to allow for this information to be added. The array will ask for name, age, and state. Once the information has been entered, I will use a function to calculate the average age. This calculation will be based the addition...
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...01/10/2012-2nd paper Cold Nightsky I think of death as a transcendence to another state of being, that even after death I will keep on existing. At least I hope and live my life as such, since I love living, therefore I must keep on existing.. I must admit that I don’t think I would be in a healthy mental state to write this paper, if I really had pondered about the thought of death as an ending. I believe one would think of death in a real sense, either when they end up in a position of losing their health, or having a disease which is likely to make them feel death is near. Plato’s quote “the distraction of body on soul ” in this case would influence one to ask himself more serious questions and find real answers , instead of the ones he would ask himself, in his comfortzone of body and soul in harmony. Dying and being transformed into something else as particles in soil or whatever form that might take, is inevitable. Our physical existence will definitely become something else but our soul, will be separated from it, finally “splitting itself from the body” as Socrates interprets. From that moment on, our soul will no longer be disturbed by other effects such as time, and this state would be “all that a philosopher (a mortal) would ask for” he adds. But how is it that the soul lives on when the body dies? I can think and philosophize about things and happenings I have acquaintance with , how is it possible that the soul can keep thinking in a form without the...
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...author This book was birthed in obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit as He continually prompted me to put on paper the many truths that He revealed to me over a period of time; allowing me to gain a broader understanding of the inquisitive nature of children. For me, it was indeed a learning curve, a total departure from my own perceptions about children and why they do, say and ask the things that they do. This book focuses on how we can support children to using their “nosy” tendency towards the development of a deeper relationship with the Lord. There is a hunger in every child to know more, and parents, Sunday school teachers, grandparents, uncles and aunts, etc. can play a very important and effective role in supporting the spiritual growth and...
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...Christian, Christ like.. Some people say that we are just evolutionary result of the survival of the fittest Others think of reincarnation Most of our lives, we have been searching for a purpose for our lives, one that has a deeper meaning than just the basic action of existing on this planet. We felt that our lives were meant for something; and something meaningful and worthwhile that would give us a true reason to live. We searched for this purpose in things like relationships, a career, a job, a hobby, in school, and in many more things, only to find disappointment at every turn; because though these things could preoccupy us for a moment, they would ultimately fail at fulfilling our spiritual desire for a meaningful life. Then we find God, and we feel that we see our purpose clearly. We are full of excitement and hopeful to see what God will do with our lives. The overwhelming joy and excitement that drives us motivates us to share the good news with everyone around us, telling them of the great purpose that God has in store for our lives. We devote ourselves to learning more, growing more, and doing more for God. We surround ourselves with more and more people who call themselves Christians to glean as much as we can from them, astounded at the miraculous experiences they recount of God’s work in their lives. We are at the pinnacle of our joy, and we feel that we have what we have always been looking for. Never again will we feel lost; never again will we feel...
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...daily decisions and actions.” (Weider & Gutierrez, p. 50). It is everything organized and prioritized in our minds, it is life. It is everything that we think of and are made of as human beings. II. Part Two 1. The Question of Origin asks, “How did life begin?” and “How did mankind come into existence?” (Weider & Gutierrez, p. 55). The Christian/biblical view on this is that God created everything that exists in the world and that He was the Creator. An example of this can be found in both Genesis 1:1 and Psalm 139:13-16. This view is also called Theism, there is no other source of creation. 2. The Question of Identity asks, “What does it mean to be a human?” and “Are humans more important than animals?” (Weider & Gutierrez, p. 57). According to the Theism view, mankind was created above the animal and man was created “a little lower than the angels” (Weider & Gutierrez, p. 58), which is in Psalm 8:5. Both men and women are responsible for taking care of all of God’s creations, this is talked about in Genesis 2:15. We are to respect and care for the earth and the animals all while using them for resources and food. It is a win-win situation. 3. The Question of Meaning/Purpose asks, “Why does mankind exist?” and “Why do I exist?” (Weider & Gutierrez, p. 59). The Theists believe that mankind is supposed to build a relationship with God and to know God. They believe that there is only one true God and that he sent Jesus Christ...
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...“Questions open many possibilities” To ask questions opens many possibilities. When one thinks about a topic, one’s mind tends to follow one thought after another, in links associating one with one more. However, when one asks a question, one tends to wonder, and the mind is more free to wander in any of several directions. Furthermore, when one is wandering, one tends to ask several questions. So do you think that by asking questions, one opens one’s mind to many possibilities? The power of creating new possibilities comes from the magical effect that questions have on our lives. The kinds of questions we tend to ask ourselves consistently have an effect on the quality of our lives. If you ask yourself “Why is my life a mess?” you will get lots of information about why your life a mess. If you ask yourself “Why do I always cry because of love?” you will get lots of information about why you always cry because of love. By doing this again and again, you will see an adverse effect or the opposite of the results you desire, partially because you will start associating yourself with your mistakes and thus decreases your self-esteem. One of the major differences between people and their outlook on life is the questions that they consistently ask themselves. If this seems like a strange observation, it may be that you have been underestimating the power of questions to change your mindset. Questions have the ability to change our focus in an instant. Asking the right questions...
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...How does Mildred represent society? Do you know any people in your life who act like a clear representative of society? In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred serves as a prime example of someone like so, because she is basically the only one in the book who shows us the world Montag lives in. Mildred’s abstract personality provides for us a glimpse into the corrupt part of society that is so influenced by fake people. Her overuse of technology causes naivety, and the hatred of knowledge was only cultivated by what she heard from ignorant people. So she lives a life of truth and one a fake. Mildred’s obsession with technology and overuse of her electronic devices seem normal in the society of Fahrenheit 451. Her three TV-walls that obscure her parlor walls...
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...There are many ways to view human nature. The questions that we ask throughout our lives is there higher power that is watching our every move, regarding evaluating our choices, the way we treat others around us, and the core values the we choose to live to on. We live life based on the events that take place throughout our lives such as the decisions that we make the people that we choose to associate ourselves with and it shapes the views and beliefs that we believe in. The main question that is always asked is why we are placed on this earth, why are some humans are blessed with different traits, such as personality, ability, appearance, special talents, happens to us in the afterlife. We can find those views that are expressed through...
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...discussing with the students the animals and their babies. Day 7: Caring for their young: Here is where we will have a lesson on how the animals take care of their young. Day 8: Identifying the Needs of the animals: Like humans, animals have certain needs too and I will delve into these needs. Day 9: How they meet their needs: Another follow up from the previous lesson, I will do a part two lesson where I will teach a lesson on how the animals meet these needs. Day 10: Habitats: This is where we’ll discuss the homes of the animals. Day 11: How the animals move: This deals with how they use their bodies to run from their prey. Day 12: Adapting to the Environment: How these animals survive in their environments and where they live. Day 13: Food Chain: where their groups belong on the food chain. Teacher: Marianne Lettieri Grade: 2; Animal Groups Specific Expectation(s): In this first lesson, by the end, the students should be able to identify and describe the six major animal kingdoms Strand: Growth and Changes in Animals Materials and Resources: chart paper, magazines, markers, tape,...
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...A paper on serving in the army 1. Statement of the various views on serving in the army presented in the three texts. Each text gives its own opinion and view on serving in the army. Text 1 is an autobiographical text written by Sarah Palin in 2010 named “Why They Serve”. She tells that her son Track enlisted in the American army. She feels proud of the young men and women, who want to give up their freedom and risk their lives for the benefit of others. Sarah explains that the society asks the soldiers to stay away from their families for a long time, to live under bad conditions and to risk their lives. “The least – the very least – we can do is support them in this mission. That doesn’t mean never questioning a war or our leaders. It means understanding what fundamental principles are at stake, and acknowledging those who bear the burden of their defense. (p. 3 line 37-40). According to this text example, Sarah presents her chief point of view. She points out that the Americans should appreciate the basic difficulties that soldiers in the American army undergo. Text 2 is an article published from The Boston Globe website, written by David Zucchino, December 21, 2008 named “A soldier’s story: War affects whole family”. In this text, Zucchino writes about the side effects of being a veteran. He portrays a story about Army Sergeant Ryan Kahlor, who returned from war. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. This of course had a major impact on...
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...loathed. Luke Warm, a friendly, generous 17-year-old American boy who lives in a poor family with a decent school. Luke would always cheer a lot of people and make lots of witty jokes. Ever since the start of the Great Depression, his parents lost their jobs, with the mother working as a cashier and his father working as a janitor for Luke’s school. Luke’s school had to close down due to the income they have to pay for further education. Luke’s family’s salaries were cut and were stuck from minimal to...
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