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Oracle today announced a record-breaking 8 processor TPC-H 300 GB data warehousing benchmark result for Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux, showing yet again Oracle's ability to manage data warehouses on low-cost clustered Linux servers.

While perusing the search engine forums, I came across an interesting thread about being disillusioned with SEO, particularly in the area of SERP relevancy. The concern is that sites with poor content are using optimizing "tricks" to receive top search engine rankings, which damage the relevancy of search engine results.

How often have you tried to manage your time in more productive ways, and found the process to be difficult and confusing? Perhaps you simply gave up on the idea. As one friend said, "Time management takes too much time!"

Fox News reporter John Gibson argued that the BBC had displayed "a frothing-at-the-mouth" anti-American bias. In response to some complaints about this coverage Fox News said searching for the phrase "BBC anti-american" in the Google internet search engine resulted in 47,200 hits.

Reader question: I have never paid for a listing in any search engine and want to know why my site appears in both LookSmart and Mamma. I have also never submitted to AOL and MSN but notice it is also included? My question is how come?

Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to optimize for search engines to achieve #1 rankings. Many sites have pages which are not fully optimized (in the sense that no thought has been given to writing appropriate title tags for different pages, etc.) which still do very well in search engines. How can this be? Simple: they're relevant.