Well MySQL is full featured, one of the most famous and widely used database server. MySQL is open source it means its free. Being a cross platform server its being used for different OS like Linux, Windows, MAC etc. MySQL features include support for views, stored procedures, replication etc etc.
Most of the free web applications like osCommerce, joomla, magento, durpal etc are using MySQL. MySQL is also being used by large enterprises like Yahoo, Google, FaceBook etc etc.
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A lot of application have different urls pointing to same page or content like
http://www.somedomain.com/index.html
or
http://www.somedomain.com/
or
http://www.somedomain.com/index.html?sessionid=ad342342sdfsdfs
Above links points to same page and same content search engine may take this as duplicate content shown by different urls. so how to avoid it?
Recently Google, Yahoo and Microsoft introduced “Canonical Link” that is to add
<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/page.html"/>
in head of your such document. This will tell search engines that no matter whats the url is this page is actually my home page or whats is the best url to get this content.
Implementing this can be difficult but its pretty handy to avoid issues because of different url point to same page or content.
According to Washington post bing took a lead from yahoo in search engine war. It says
The company’s analysis for Thursday finds that in the U.S. Bing overtook Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%, with Yahoo Search currently at 10.22%. For the sake of comparison: Google’s U.S. market share is pegged at 71.47%, and its worldwide share at a whopping 87.62% (vs. 5.62% for Bing and 5.13% for Yahoo).
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Many people say that this lead is temporary as lot of marketing is taking place for bing, and yahoo will take back its position soon.
