On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Google noticed that after September 11 people were constantly searching the web for the most updated information. Minute by minute updates was what people were searching for. Today the web has reaches just such a place. Take a look at Twitter many news stories have broken first on Twitter and then the press gets a hold of it. The web certainly has changed and Search Engines need to keep up. Google has now taken things further with a completely new indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine is set to deliver 50 % faster results that their previous indexing system. So whether it's a news story, blog post or a video Google seeks to deliver it seconds after it has been published. Let Google Explain the rest Some background for those of you who don't build search engines for a living like us: when you search Google, you're not searching the live web. Instead you're searching Google's index of the web which, like the list in the back of a book, helps you pinpoint exactly t...