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Extra What: Privacy Policy

noreply@blogger.com (Meynard) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:28:00 +0000

Privacy Policy for http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at disrespect_15@hotmail.com.

At http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/ and how it is used.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/ makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/ does not use cookies.

DoubleClick DART Cookie
.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/.
.:: Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/ and other sites on the Internet.
.:: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include ....
Google Adsense
Chitika

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/ send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/ has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. http://extrawhat.blogspot.com/'s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Under Construction

noreply@blogger.com (Meynard) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:50:00 +0000

This site is under construction! Don't ask too many questions! I am f*cking busy with it! ok!?
I'm doing some experiments with this blog so please just be patient. Thank you!

One Man's Answer

noreply@blogger.com (Meynard) — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:50:00 +0000

There is physicist Stephen Wolfram who wrote a blog post in early March announcing the imminent release of a new, highly sophisticated search engine, technology watchers from the Bay Area to Bangalore wondered if this was going to be The One. Wolfram claimed a breakthrough, an engine that does not merely crawl over Web sites seeking to find one that has already posted an answer to the question at hand. Instead, Wolfram|Alpha has at its disposal 10 trillion (and counting) points of data from fields like chemistry, meteorology, history and astronomy. It also houses a vast number of equations and algorithms to connect the numbers, giving it the ability to compute completely original responses.

Wolfram|Alpha is so new its impact is hard to predict, but some people believe it could transform search. Doug Lenat, founder of Cycorp, an Austin, Texas–based company working on artificial intelligence, says that Wolfram|Alpha represents the next step on the way to "something very much like the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but minus the homicidal-maniac tendencies." Compared to that, says Lenat, searching on Google is "like asking your dog to fetch a newspaper."

Wolfram says his creation is not so much a search engine as a "computational knowledge engine." It has a single input field, like a search engine, but users can pose complex questions. And yet the result is returned as quickly as a Google search.