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Google Gets Ready to RUMBLE With Microsoft - NY Times

Went Hot: December 19, 2007 - 2:44 am
Posted By: aimClear 565 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Other

In this corner, with a $214 billion market cap, Google and partners like IBM. In the other, weighing in at $327 billion, is Microsoft and the PC desktop. This Sunday New York Times piece is about the high-stakes future of computing.

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from ljs4iu 565 days ago #

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It's nice to see the link to the original post-not the SEL article, which was very good in itself. Good job Marty. Tamar would be proud.

from qwerty 565 days ago #

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However, it was already posted: http://sphinn.com/story/18994

Very good article, though.

Interesting that you've already gotten more sphinns than I did, even though I posted it some 30 hours before you. I bet there's something worth studying there.

from aimClear 565 days ago #

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How does that happen?

from qwerty 565 days ago #

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Well, the only differences in the titles is that you've got "rumble" in all caps, and (I think this probably makes a difference) you left the fact that it's from the NYT in there.

Then there are our relative positions in the Top Sphinners list (you're way above me), and I'm guessing you've got a longer friends list.

The CMS would have caught that the URL had already been submitted, but the NYT adds a bunch of unnecessary parameters to their URLs based on where you came from. I deleted that from the URL, leaving http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/technology/16goog.html?_r=1 whereas yours is http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/technology/16goog.html?ex=1355461200&en=51443a66d6584dc2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
It'd be nice if the system could see that those two URLs point to the same document, but as I'm not a developer, I have no idea how to make that happen.