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Programming Language Trends via Google

May 10th, 2006

There is a new google toy as of today: Google Trends. So of course, I wanted to see how PHP is faring on the trendy landscape. Here is a comparison of PHP, Java, C#, and Perl:

PHP Java C# Perl

PHP seems to be holding steady, or slightly declining. [...]

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Google Hosting

September 27th, 2004

I don’t see google paid hosting as a good move for google.

Web hosting is a (still) highly fragmented marketplace.

Web hosting is fragmented market because it is a commodity product and there are low barriers to entry. I don’t see google overcoming either of these issues. They built their search brand based on having [...]

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Decline of Google

May 3rd, 2004

I had an interesting conversation with my aunt this weekend. She is a genealogy buff who works at the University of Michigan law library. She complained about how she has found that Google’s search results are declining in quality. Specifically, she complained about the sites that were spamming google with randomly generated [...]

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