Sure, it sends out lots of ads - that’s the purpose of it - but they’re probably selling users’ emails to other parties, as well. My YLL email address has been signed up for a “Writing Zen” newsletter (something I never signed up for). Beware!
Archive for October 11th, 2005
It appears to have a very well-thought-out affiliate marketing program. This sort of marketing could be applied to many other businesses, if they can get the organization right.
There was an infosession with Google in the Seeley G. Mudd building, room 101. It was quite interesting. There were four representatives from Google there; two of them were USC alumni. Russell gave a nice presentation about Google. Specifically, he’s working on Froogle. I asked a few questions. Perhaps I talked too much. I rarely talk, but I can talk a lot when something really interests me. Google is one of those things.
I was looking up some stuff about USC and Google, and this came up:
MD5 code is used for security, was written by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, and is derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. Message-Digest Algorithm.
Google Desktop Copyright Notices
ISI is even more amazing than I’d thought… supposedly, they were also right behind Google in both Chinese-English and Arabic-English translation, in an NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) project.
The complete copyright notice…
Continue reading ‘Google MD5 at USC’
Recent Comments