Ongoing military activities by Darfurs rebel groups as well as reprisal actions by the Sudanese Government and its allied militia are costing lives and limiting humanitarian operations in the strife-torn region, the United Nations Secretary-General says today.
After security concerns prompted the United Nations to suspend assistance to Afghan refugees who are voluntarily returning to their home country from Peshawar in Pakistan, the UN refugee agency announced today that it will reopen its voluntary repatriation centre (VRC) in the city.
After holding its first meeting this week in New York, the new international task force on the global food crisis, which is chaired by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, has opened a new website to provide updates on its activities.
What holiday is today? Today is April 30 - not April 1 - so the Jeff Koons iGoogle artwork first spotted in the UK this morning is no April Fools Day joke.
Google commissioned Jeff Koons, the controversial modern artist, to create graphic images for iGoogle backgrounds. Koons’ Google Doodle today features his interpretation of (chrome) tulips. “Where art thou?” asks Marissa Mayer, VP of search products & user experience, in her official blog post this morning: (more…)
About a month ago we decided to take the Web Search Platform on an exercise run. We put one engineer to the task and asked him to build an image search engine. Today we are releasing it on alexa.com. It is still in Beta while we work out some of the kinks and continue to build the index. At this point we’ve indexed 10% of the images in the Alexa crawl. We expect to have all of them indexed in the next few months.
Alexa is committed to enabling anybody with programming skills to build a full-featured search engine without spending millions on crawlers, storage and indexing technology. So far we’ve released quite a few search engines of our own on the Web Search Platform, some with complete source code and tutorials, including: (more…)
Based on some recent news, I thought now would be a good time to reach out and remind developers that Alexa is fully committed to providing deep and meaningful programmatic access to Alexa’s web search engine. If you need to get your digital hands on raw documents then you should give Alexa a try. (more…)
