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A French court has ordered fashion designer Milka Budimir to hand over her website to the Kraft Foods company, which owns the Milka chocolate brand. Judges said the US giant Kraft Foods was entitled to the www.milka.fr website because it had owned the brand long before Mrs Budimir, 58, was born

Our internal user data shows that increasing numbers of UKIE users are going directly to our web search results for their search inquiries. As a result of this continued trend in our user behavior, Yahoo! decided to discontinue the UKIE Express service. The UKIE Express program ceased to exist as of Feb. 25, 2005

As a search query comes into the system, it hits a Web server, then is split into chunks of service. One set of index servers contains the index; one set of machines contains one full index. To actually answer a query, Google has to use one complete set of servers. Since that set is replicated as a fail-safe, it also increases throughput, because if one set is busy, a new query can be routed to the next set, which drives down search time per box.

Looking at data from high-traffic keyword phrases for sites that were optimized by Oneupweb, the search engine optimization firm found that conversion rates grew the longer the keyword string, peaking at four words. The results were the same in all three months studied.