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Ask HN: What phrase is a search query most likley to begin with
Hi, How can I gauge and contrast the number of internet search queries that start with "How to" vs "How do I" vs "How do you". I am curious to find out what phrase people are most likely to preface a question when typing into a search engine. Thanks as always.
Have tried this in Firefox, Safari and Opera - both in Classic and New Mail environments.

Always ends up with 0 imported contacts. Makes me wonder if Facebook have disabled this for now... ?
It is, but slowly. Are you willing to turn away 5% of your customers?
Didn't meant (I realise how unfortunate writing the comment I was) it was PG objective crushing anyone. Its only I can not imagine a worst moment for an engineer with so huge webmail background like this one, moving out of fb only 3 days from launch (the rest was buggy literature)
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If anybody knows people in tv or radio, it'd be good to get the word out.

Opt-Out Day is Nov 24th. The day before Thanksgiving. It's going to be packed and slow without people opting out. Make sure to remind the mad people that it's the TSA that's forcing you get a pat down.
Despite all the hoopla & animosity, Flash is what drives innovation on the web
Keith Peters (aka bit101) makes an astute observation here:
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2908

Flash was blazing trails doing widespread use of RIAs & XML data exchanges long before AJAX took off (or the term AJAX was even invented). RIA (Rich Internet Application), by the way, was a term coined by Macromedia with regards to how Flash was used. Before Flash started doing what it was doing, surfing the web meant reloading entire HTML pages or the marginally better iFrames (which were a compatibility big headache back then because of the browser wars between IE & Netscape) to make simple data calls.

Flash has driven the ubiquitous and acceptable use of internet video, saving content creators from the huge costly headache of having to support multiple formats. Not only that, but Flash has made video interactive, allowing everyone to embed videos as entire rich mini-websites even non-tech savvy end-users can stick on any webpage they wanted.

Flash is the reason why casual games and the web games are so popular now, especially with both genders. Now, Flash is going to have full GPU hardware 3D acceleration, gamepad support and will be running on upcoming TV set top boxes including Google TV: http://tv.adobe.com/show/max-2010-keynotes

HTML5? Every single HTML5 demo you see now is playing copycat catchup to what Flash was already doing 5 years ago.

Think about it.

Can't wait to see what the web will be like in the next 10 years.

(btw, big shoutout to http://opera.com which has been responsible for most of the innovations modern browsers have today such as tabbed browsing, tab session saving, thumbnail preview buttons to your favorite sites upon opening new tabs, and speed, speed, speed http://bit.ly/aeEuFO )
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That doesn't work for multi-page articles like this one, though.
fb.com is just two letters for most people.

I cant imagine why facebook the site and facebook-mail have to be in different addresses. Most likely the mail feature will be surfaced within the facebook UI. Right now, fb.com redirects to facebook.

The Fb.com address is probably just a convenience for both facebook and its users.
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Similar idea as the UI stencil kit (http://www.uistencils.com/products/website-stencil-kit) that comes with the browser pad (http://www.uistencils.com/products/browser-sketch-pad).

I've been lusting a bit on these stencils but don't really have a good explanation as to why I would need them :) I'm not sure I would use them, but I really like them as objects.
Thanks, really like devoteeapp's blog.
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You could start with the Google Adwords keyword tool or traffic estimator. They will give you a gauge to work with, but you have to take their numbers with a little hesitation. You can also check out Wordtracker or Keyword Country to gauge search terms.
Many (regular, non tech) people don't know about or understand alternate tld's.
Add unique patterns to the components (like Anoto dots [1]), then you could take a photo and have software generate the HTML.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoto
According to the Google keyword suggestion tool, the global search volumes for those phrases are:

"How to" - 226m
"How do I" - 9.14m
"How do you" - 11.1m
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As a person who used AOL back in the day, how did AOL get themselves in this branding mess in the first place? I know they lost my business 11 to 12 years ago to DSL provided by SBC (now part of AT&T) but I also couldn't wait to see them go. We called SBC Send Big Check at the time, because DSL was damn expensive. MORAL OF THE STORY: don't trash your brand for a quick buck, consumers remember that stuff.
Thank you, sir, for putting a bit of the "hacker" back into hacker news.
I fly out the Friday after this and will absolutely be opting out.
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Actually, given the additional delays for security, trips under ~ 250 miles, buses and trains are a viable alternative. I'd suspect that those routes are rapidly becoming more profitable for ground transport. Maybe that can help with investment in high speed trains.
I disagree. Being required to take you almost anywhere you ask, most likely arose because of racial discrimination. That's perfectly well thought out.

The cabbies or cab companies are allowed by the city to operate, and that's a nearly steady stream of money, based on a limited number of medallions. The least the public can expect, is that any authorized cab will take them to where they want to go.

And yeah, I avoid the black car "limos" whenever possible. They're like vermin way-uptown (way, way too many of 'em), and they charge whatever they feel like charging. Always negotiate that fee before you get in.

I don't feel sorry for cabbies. It's not much more of a job than a shoe-shine boy with a driver's license, and some of these guys still shouldn't be behind the wheel.

It's also better, as a customer, once you learn the map yourself. I've had these guys deliberately take congested or longer, round-about routes, to jack up the price. Once you know the map yourself, you can sometimes insist on a certain route, within reason.

Tons of NYC cabbies were also recently busted leaving some kind of "outer borough surcharge" feature engaged on the meter, within Manhattan where it doesn't apply. Tell me how all the money they raked in over the years doing this, could ever be returned to the customers?

It's an adversarial relationship, IMO. I don't trust a single one of 'em, as far as I could throw his non-English-speaking, sweat-stinking a. To generalize.
Flash is what drove innovation on the web years ago. It hasn't added anything significant to the web since video. The player itself has not been significantly improved in two years.

The past does not predict the future.

And this is a very tired debate at this point.
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Generally speaking, you can't sue the U.S. Government.
Wow, very interesting, now there is a whole different angle to FB's Titan killing gmail system.

Why would Paul leave just before launch? To me it means Paul either was never involved even though he was told he would be, or it's crap and he's leaving before the shit hits the fan.
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