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100 Google Search Tricks for the Savviest of Students | Online College Courses. In today’s schools, most research is completed online, and Google is a great resource for combing the web. But at the same time, it’s not always easy to find exactly what you want, given that there are usually millions of results — with varying degrees of accuracy.

These tricks can help you find the best results, while saving time and making your life easier. General These simple tricks will help you get what you want, faster. Reference These tricks make it easy to use Google as a reference tool. Travel & Geography Whether you’re hitting the road, skies, or the movies around the block, these Google tricks can help you out. Shopping Get the best deals on books and more using these Google tricks. Better Results Sick of finding millions of results that have little to do with what you actually need? Fine Tuning Use these search tricks to get your results down to the very best. Media Scour Google for videos, books, and more using these tricks.

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Well, we will always need application infrastructure right… A couple of years ago building an application meant building the infrastructure to support the application. Typically this entailed installing a database, an app server and often a messaging server and email server. Database As NoSQL providers gain widespread adoption some are now offering hosted versions making it super easy to add storage capabilities to your weekend application. MongoHQ – fully featured document- based storage. no fuss. Filesystem. Google. Content – an illustrated history | Philip Sheldrake. UPDATE 1: Thank you to Wired, Mashable, @dmscott, @guykawaski and everyone else who has posted and shared our illustration :-) UPDATE 2: Now available in Slideshare format. UPDATE 3: Now available in 42MB hi-res jpeg format for printing or anything else you fancy.

UPDATE 4: Now available in Spanish. Thanks to @FollowFlock & @rulsCC. UPDATE 5: Taptu CEO Mitch Lazar loves our style (and the Taptu reference no doubt!) UPDATE 6: The Slideshare format made the number 1 slot on Slideshare's homepage for part of the day on the 27th Jan, and accrued over 4,000 views in 48 hours. UPDATE 7: August 2011. No-one with a smattering of social Web literacy can fail to marvel at what's taken place in recent history.

Who would have thought thirty years ago that the Internet would go mainstream and the World Wide Web would transform content business models (and many other business models come to that) so radically? The video.