Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will deliver a speech on nuclear disarmament next week at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nearly 200 ex-combatants with the rebel Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) have been given diplomas by the United Nations after completing a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme at Ferkessédougou in the north of Côte dIvoire.
The global food crisis, Security Council reform and the most recent developments in the Middle East have topped the agenda during talks in Cairo between General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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: Read the rest of this entry »
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: Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
