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Microsoft Celebrity Search is cool

Posted by rob on February 7th, 2008 filed in Microsoft

Never been a huge fan of Microsoft’s search services, but I have to say that a new beta product they’ve rolled out is totally awesome.
It’s called ‘xRank’ (which sounds like some kind of porn search engine), and it ranks celebrities according to their current ‘level of fame’, based on the number of searches for their [...]

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Random loss of sessions in ASP.NET

Posted by rob on March 30th, 2007 filed in Microsoft

We recently had a problem with our website where people would call us up and say that their shopping cart kept on randomly emptying itself as they were just about to buy something. We couldn’t replicate this problem on our computers, so assumed it might be their firewall or anti-virus software cycling through and periodically [...]

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