Archives: 2007November

Last week we announced that we were working on a fix to correct discrepancies in the page and inlink data counts. The good news is that the fix is now complete. You should see consistent page and inline counts in Site Explorer, whether you’re logged in or logged out.
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Over the last few days, we’ve been rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.
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Molecular motors: A step dissected

Nature 450, 625 (2007). doi:10.1038/450625a

Authors: Zeynep Ökten
& Manfred Schliwa
The motor protein kinesin ‘walks’ by alternately advancing its two motor structural domains. A cutting-edge, single-molecule fluorescence technique reveals further details of this stepping mechanism.

Obituary: Leslie Orgel (1927–2007)

Nature 450, 627 (2007). doi:10.1038/450627a

Authors: Gerald F. Joyce
Chemist, molecular biologist and pioneer in the study of the origins of life.
Technorati Tags: life

I’m a Portlander.  We are an outdoor people, and we love to eat. Heck, The New York Times seemingly comes here every week and raves about our restaurant and foodie culture. But it goes deeper than just restaurants for us. We love to eat/picnic  on the back deck, the porch, the fire ring in our […]

Yes. I’ve been writing about Silicon Valley turning into “Media Valley.” Nikkei business magazine, Japan’s top business magazine even featured my take on “Media Valley” earlier this year with a prominent interview. Many of Silicon Valley’s biggest and fastest growing companies are media companies. Google, for example, isn’t a technology company. It is a technology […]

Recently, some of you noticed changes in counts for Site Explorer results, where the counts were different for logged-in users versus logged-out users.
While the counts have been incorrect in some cases, the actual returned results have been correct. However, we did roll out a product fix yesterday and will be rolling out a couple more […]

When it comes to the Web, there’s nothing wrong with cutting a few corners. That’s why we decided to focus today’s post on some time-saving tips for your next search. Some may seem obvious; others you may already know and use. But we hope a few will help you cut through the chase. You can […]

Venus as a more Earth-like planet

Nature 450, 629 (2007). doi:10.1038/nature06432

Authors: Håkan Svedhem, Dmitry V. Titov, Fredric W. Taylor
& Olivier Witasse
Venus is Earth’s near twin in mass and radius, and our nearest planetary neighbour, yet conditions there are very different in many respects. Its atmosphere, mostly composed of carbon dioxide, has a surface temperature and pressure […]

Morphology and dynamics of the upper cloud layer of Venus

Nature 450, 633 (2007). doi:10.1038/nature06320

Authors: W. J. Markiewicz, D. V. Titov, S. S. Limaye, H. U. Keller, N. Ignatiev, R. Jaumann, N. Thomas, H. Michalik, R. Moissl
& P. Russo
Venus is completely covered by a thick cloud layer, of which the upper part is composed of sulphuric […]