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Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time — and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here. The project started with a rough idea from Larry Page, and a small 4-person team turned it into reality in less than 4 months. For two new grads, it was a crash course in building a scalable product, responding to customer requests, and discovering what questions are on people’s minds.

Google Answers taught us exactly how many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline, why flies survive a good microwaving, and why you really shouldn’t drink water emitted by your air conditioner. Even closer to home, we learned one afternoon that our building might be on fire.

The people who participated in Google Answers — more than 800 of them over the years — are a passionate group committed to helping people find the information they need, and we applaud them for sharing their incredible knowledge with everyone who wrote in.

If you have a chance, we encourage you to browse through the questions posted over the last 4+ years. Although we won’t be accepting any new questions, the existing Qs and As are available. We’ll stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year.

Google Answers was a great experiment which provided us with a lot of material for developing future products to serve our users. We’ll continue to look for new ways to improve the search experience and to connect people to the information they want.

MySQL Tips

Q : I have lost my MySQL root password, how can I get in?
A : If you have forgotten the root user password for MySQL, you can restore it with the following procedure:

Take down the mysqld server by sending a kill (not kill -9) to the mysqld server.

The pid is stored in a .pid file, which is normally in the MySQL database directory:
kill `cat /mysql-data-directory/hostname.pid`

You must be either the Unix root user or the same user the server runs as to do this.

Restart mysqld with the –skip-grant-tables option.

Connect to the mysqld server with mysql -h hostname mysql and change the password with a GRANT command.

See section 7.35 GRANT and REVOKE Syntax http://www.mysql.com/doc/G/R/GRANT.html

You can also do this with mysqladmin -h hostname -u user password ‘new password’

Load the privilege tables with: mysqladmin -h hostname flush-privileges or with the SQL command FLUSH PRIVILEGES.

Note that after you started mysqld with –skip-grant-tables, any usage of GRANT commands will give you an Unknown command error until you have executed FLUSH PRIVILEGES.

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Officials with the Internet Society of China (ISC) have confirmed that China is exploring adopting a real name system in parts of the Internet, Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post reported Wednesday.

Hu Qiheng, chairman of the board of directors of the ISC, was reported to have said on Tuesday at Info China 2006 in Beijing that China is making attempts to strike a balance between individual privacy and public interests.

“The past understanding of privacy is too absolute. Not only China, but also the whole world, should realize the necessity of balancing individual privacy and public and national interests,” he said.

A new system is likely to be adopted, requiring Chinese netizens to submit information like real names and ID card numbers when they register a blog or a BBS (Bulletin Board Service) account.

Netizens will be able to continue choosing their own online name, and as long as they do not violate laws their personal information will remain private and safe.

The first area for real name application will be blogs, a popular form of internet-based diary.

Blogs have been used by some people to infringe upon other people’s privacy and rights.

For example an infamous TV host had thousands of netizens visit her blog just because she wrote an article about a well-known TV anchor’s marriage history, which included some allegedly false information.

As a blogger’s real name is unknown, it is very difficult to safeguard privacy and rights.

The society, affiliated to the Ministry of Information Industry, was entrusted by the ministry to form a blog research panel to provide solutions for the development of China’s blog industry.

The real name system is said to be able to protect law-abiding netizens’ privacy.

Yang Junzuo, secretary-general of ISC’s self-discipline working commission, was quoted by Beijing-based China Times a month ago saying that the real name system is the solution.

“Free speech on the Internet does not include talking nonsense and not taking responsibility. Bad symptoms will be curbed,” he was quoted as saying.

However, not many netizens support the system.

An online poll at sohu.com yesterday showed that only one quarter of surveyed netizens agreed that the system would crack down on online crimes while not interfering with internet use.

More than 70 per cent of people were against it, believing it was “absurd” to enforce a real name system just because of a minority of people who committed online crimes.

Xinhua News Agency reported that Hu stressed at the meeting that the society would adopt multiple ways to improve the Internet environment.

Hu was quoted as saying that the direct purpose of improving the Internet environment is to enable the young generation to grow up in an Internet-friendly environment like youth in developed countries.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29 — Google said today that it would shut down Google Answers, a service that allows users to pose a question to a panel of researchers and pay for a helpful answer.

The service, which started about four years ago, failed to gain much traction with users, especially when compared to a rival service offered by Yahoo, which is free.

“It was not one of our most popular products,” said Sunny Gettinger, a Google spokeswoman.

Google, which has had overwhelming success in the Web search business, has introduced dozens of other services, many of which have not turned into hits. The company has said that experimentation is an important part of its strategy and that a high failure rate for new products is to be expected.

Google Answers never generated much traffic or revenue for Google, said Danny Sullivan, editor of the online publication Search Engine Watch. Its demise represents a missed opportunity to be competitive in this area, Mr. Sullivan said.

“Yahoo has an answers product that works,” he said. Because it required users to pay, he said, Google Answers “could not have been that product.” Mr. Sullivan noted that unlike Yahoo, Google had not done much promotion for its service.

Yahoo Answers, which was introduced nearly a year ago, has quickly built up a large community of users. Yahoo said the number of answers in its database grew from 10 million in May to about 60 million now. The site had about 14 million users in October.

“It has been one of our most successful launches,” said Tomi Poutanen, product director for Yahoo Social Search. Yahoo has had trouble keeping up with competitors like Google and MySpace in other areas.

At Yahoo Answers, anyone can ask or answer a question. The person who asks a question selects the best answer, and other members of the community can rate that answer. Mr. Poutanen described it as a way to harness the “wisdom of the crowds.”

“The real appeal of the service is in the diversity of answers you get to your question,” he said.

The archive of questions on Google Answers shows that users paid as much as $150 for information on hedge funds. Those asking questions on the site state how much they are willing to pay for a satisfactory answer from the researchers, who are independent contractors screened by Google employees.

The company said that more than 800 panelists had answered questions on the service, and that the Google Answers archive would remain available when the service stops accepting new questions later this week.

Zen Cart Tips :

Q : How do i change the title of Zen Cart’s website that i installed ?

A : Edit includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php

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