For reasons I do not comprehend, this is the most famous chihuahua in Japan. Check out the adoring crowd - gadget and yap dog fetishes combine!

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2:53:10 PM    

A district court has thrown out a suit against Google for reducing the page rank of hits to a "link farming" advertising site. I'll leave the legal commentary to the Volokhs, but this also makes sense from a technical and business point of view:

As anyone who's worked on text search engines knows, 'relevance' is very much in the eye of the beholder. Even in static, small scale precision/recall studies, what's rated as responsive to the query, and particularly how hits are ranked, are highly variable depending on who is doing the rating. Even more so in an open Web of millions of documents, with users whose needs are only partially known to the engine and its operator.

In the face of such ambiguity, a market is the best way to sort the utility of algorithms and their interfaces to the users. Google has so far done the best job at it, and their market share reflects it. Judgement for plaintiff in this case would have been tantamount to putting Google, or any other open engine provider, at the mercy of every opportunistic algorithm gamer looking for a fast buck. Just imagine if something like that had happened when the same kind of jerks were discovering they could make a fast score by polluting the Web with bogus meta-tags...
2:15:30 PM    

Atheros brings out its latest multi-mode WiFi chip and discusses pricing trends. Note that the costs mentioned are for whole cards. I'd say the 20% deflator is optimistic (if you're a vendor, that is), and that having at least an b/g combo is going to be necessary to stay in the market at all. The pricing cited by Richard Bennett is close to the brutal truth - I've heard numbers around $5/chip for b only by end of year. I'd also concur with him that the PHY/MAC hardware portion of this market is tapped out and over-invested, unless you're an acquirer that can get some upside based on your sales channel.
11:37:25 AM