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// Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
package com.yahoo.vespa.indexinglanguage.expressions;

import com.yahoo.document.DataType;
import com.yahoo.document.NumericDataType;
import com.yahoo.document.datatypes.*;
import com.yahoo.vespa.objects.ObjectOperation;
import com.yahoo.vespa.objects.ObjectPredicate;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.math.MathContext;

/**
 * @author Simon Thoresen Hult
 */
public final class ArithmeticExpression extends CompositeExpression {

    public enum Operator {

        ADD(1, "+"),
        SUB(1, "-"),
        MUL(0, "*"),
        DIV(0, "/"),
        MOD(0, "%");

        private final int precedence;
        private final String img;

        Operator(int precedence, String img) {
            this.precedence = precedence;
            this.img = img;
        }

        public boolean precedes(Operator op) {
            return precedence <= op.precedence;
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return img;
        }
    }

    private final Expression lhs;
    private final Operator op;
    private final Expression rhs;

    public ArithmeticExpression(Expression lhs, Operator op, Expression rhs) {
        super(requiredInputType(lhs, rhs));
        lhs.getClass(); // throws NullPointerException
        op.getClass();
        rhs.getClass();
        this.lhs = lhs;
        this.op = op;
        this.rhs = rhs;
    }

    public Expression getLeftHandSide() {
        return lhs;
    }

    public Operator getOperator() {
        return op;
    }

    public Expression getRightHandSide() {
        return rhs;
    }

    @Override
    protected void doExecute(ExecutionContext context) {
        FieldValue input = context.getValue();
        context.setValue(evaluate(context.setValue(input).execute(lhs).getValue(),
                                  context.setValue(input).execute(rhs).getValue()));
    }

    @Override
    protected void doVerify(VerificationContext context) {
        DataType input = context.getValueType();
        context.setValueType(evaluate(context.setValueType(input).execute(lhs).getValueType(),
                                      context.setValueType(input).execute(rhs).getValueType()));
    }

    private static DataType requiredInputType(Expression lhs, Expression rhs) {
        DataType lhsType = lhs.requiredInputType();
        DataType rhsType = rhs.requiredInputType();
        if (lhsType == null) {
            return rhsType;
        }
        if (rhsType == null) {
            return lhsType;
        }
        if (!lhsType.equals(rhsType)) {
            throw new VerificationException(ArithmeticExpression.class, "Operands require conflicting input types, " +
                                                  lhsType.getName() + " vs " + rhsType.getName() + ".");
        }
        return lhsType;
    }

    @Override
    public DataType createdOutputType() {
        return UnresolvedDataType.INSTANCE;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return lhs + " " + op + " " + rhs;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (!(obj instanceof ArithmeticExpression)) {
            return false;
        }
        ArithmeticExpression exp = (ArithmeticExpression)obj;
        if (!lhs.equals(exp.lhs)) {
            return false;
        }
        if (!op.equals(exp.op)) {
            return false;
        }
        if (!rhs.equals(exp.rhs)) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return getClass().hashCode() + lhs.hashCode() + op.hashCode() + rhs.hashCode();
    }

    private DataType evaluate(DataType lhs, DataType rhs) {
        if (lhs == null || rhs == null) {
            throw new VerificationException(this, "Attempting to perform arithmetic on a null value.");
        }
        if (!(lhs instanceof NumericDataType) ||
            !(rhs instanceof NumericDataType))
        {
            throw new VerificationException(this, "Attempting to perform unsupported arithmetic: [" +
                                                  lhs.getName() + "] " + op + " [" + rhs.getName() + "]");
        }
        if (lhs == DataType.FLOAT || lhs == DataType.DOUBLE ||
            rhs == DataType.FLOAT || rhs == DataType.DOUBLE)
        {
            if (lhs == DataType.DOUBLE || rhs == DataType.DOUBLE) {
                return DataType.DOUBLE;
            }
            return DataType.FLOAT;
        }
        if (lhs == DataType.LONG || rhs == DataType.LONG) {
            return DataType.LONG;
        }
        return DataType.INT;
    }

    private FieldValue evaluate(FieldValue lhs, FieldValue rhs) {
        if (lhs == null || rhs == null) {
            return null;
        }
        if (!(lhs instanceof NumericFieldValue) ||
            !(rhs instanceof NumericFieldValue))
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported operation: [" + lhs.getDataType().getName() + "] " +
                                               op + " [" + rhs.getDataType().getName() + "]");
        }
        BigDecimal lhsVal = asBigDecimal((NumericFieldValue)lhs);
        BigDecimal rhsVal = asBigDecimal((NumericFieldValue)rhs);
        return switch (op) {
            case ADD -> createFieldValue(lhs, rhs, lhsVal.add(rhsVal));
            case SUB -> createFieldValue(lhs, rhs, lhsVal.subtract(rhsVal));
            case MUL -> createFieldValue(lhs, rhs, lhsVal.multiply(rhsVal));
            case DIV -> createFieldValue(lhs, rhs, lhsVal.divide(rhsVal, MathContext.DECIMAL64));
            case MOD -> createFieldValue(lhs, rhs, lhsVal.remainder(rhsVal));
        };
    }

    private FieldValue createFieldValue(FieldValue lhs, FieldValue rhs, BigDecimal val) {
        if (lhs instanceof FloatFieldValue || lhs instanceof DoubleFieldValue ||
            rhs instanceof FloatFieldValue || rhs instanceof DoubleFieldValue)
        {
            if (lhs instanceof DoubleFieldValue || rhs instanceof DoubleFieldValue) {
                return new DoubleFieldValue(val.doubleValue());
            }
            return new FloatFieldValue(val.floatValue());
        }
        if (lhs instanceof LongFieldValue || rhs instanceof LongFieldValue) {
            return new LongFieldValue(val.longValue());
        }
        return new IntegerFieldValue(val.intValue());
    }

    public static BigDecimal asBigDecimal(NumericFieldValue value) {
        if (value instanceof ByteFieldValue) {
            return BigDecimal.valueOf(((ByteFieldValue)value).getByte());
        } else if (value instanceof DoubleFieldValue) {
            return BigDecimal.valueOf(((DoubleFieldValue)value).getDouble());
        } else if (value instanceof FloatFieldValue) {
            return BigDecimal.valueOf(((FloatFieldValue)value).getFloat());
        } else if (value instanceof IntegerFieldValue) {
            return BigDecimal.valueOf(((IntegerFieldValue)value).getInteger());
        } else if (value instanceof LongFieldValue) {
            return BigDecimal.valueOf(((LongFieldValue)value).getLong());
        }
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported numeric field value type '" +
                                           value.getClass().getName() + "'.");
    }

    @Override
    public void selectMembers(ObjectPredicate predicate, ObjectOperation operation) {
        lhs.select(predicate, operation);
        rhs.select(predicate, operation);
    }
}


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Unclaimed Ancestors
The Diaries
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Names in the Dunaway Diary
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The Metcalf Diary, PA, 1935
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Names in the Gilbert Diary
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Images – Wealthy & Family
Index of Individuals
William Chynoweth, if only ALL the obituaries were this helpful!
Posted on June 5, 2013 by Jodi
William Chynoweth, one of the 10 in the 1935 class of Macon High School in Macon, Illinois. From his obituary in 2006:
William was born Oct. 2, 1917, in Macon, the son of Ray and Irene Chynoweth. He received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in 1940 from the University of Missouri. Bill was a member of the Army Air Corps serving the Pacific Theater in World War II as squadron flight engineer to the 879th Bomb Wing. During his service, he was awarded the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart. Bill attended the University of Illinois where he received his master of science in electrical engineering. After receiving his degree, he lived in Chicago, where he met Ruth Oakes of Summit, N.J. They soon married and, in their 52 years together, raised four children. During his career as an electrical engineer, he was instrumental in developing new technology for General Electric and Honeywell and was directly responsible for three patents. His sharp and inquisitive mind, his continual spirit of giving and his quiet, nurturing soul have been a help and inspiration to his family and friends. He was a resident of Good Samaritan Village and formerly lived in Fort Collins, Colo.
William R. Chynoweth, 1935 Macon High School, Illinois
I was going to write a full article on William, but his obituary is so complete it seemed redundant! Such rich genealogy detail in an obituary. Here's an interesting tidbit though: if it weren't for the 1940 census stating where someone lived in 1935 (the year of this photo) I may not have found him at all! William and his family moved around a lot. Luckily the lived in Macon, Illinois in 1935, because by 1940 they were in Columbia, Boone, Missouri where his father Ray was a traveling Salesman. And travel he did.
William's youngest sister Virginia was born in South Dakota in 1931, where the family was registered in the 1930 census as well. They has been in Macon before in 1920. Ray was born in Arkansas. And, as you can see from the obit, William eventually resided in Colorado.
I hope this photo makes it's way to willing descendants.
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We've had Valentine's Day, we've had Halloween, we've even had Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but do you know the busiest online shopping day of the year?For years I had trudged along, not really bothering about December, writing it off almost; nobody buys printer ink for Christmas, so make the most of it and look forward to January. Then I read an article by Hitwise which said that BOXING DAY is the busiest online shopping day of the year. I was mortified, I had ignored that period between Christmas and 1 January, but last year I changed all that and we reaped a big reward.
I intend to fill my boots with even more post-Christmas orders this year: we will have email campaigns, banner offers and spend some hard-earned budget on Adwords to maximise the shopping frenzy that seems to engulf our lovely nation when we are all bored by the long shutdown and desperate to do some shopping!
Traditionally my Boxing Day includes filling up on cold turkey, chips and gravy (best meal of the festive period); freezing in some football stadium if the Wolves are at home; and counting the cost of the festive period. I like going to work, but even I enjoy a long weekend break over Easter and Christmas, so it can be a struggle to get out of bed on the 27th and go into the office while the rest of the house is still asleep. Not any more!
Gone is our 'quiet time of year' when we used to stock take, tidy up and clear out with a start late and early finish. Last year, our warehouse clearance sale started at midnight on 25th and ran through into the New Year, and guess what? We nearly didn't cope with the flood of orders on the skeleton crew on duty. In fact we added nearly fifty grand to our turnover in two and a half days. Therefore, this year I am planning to do even better!
People's holidays have been better organised so that we have enough staff to cope; I'm ordering in extra stock, our carrier is on standby and we will be working normal hours (more or less) so roll on BOXING DAY – I love you!


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Turkish President Erdoğan's chief advisor endorsed al-Qaeda-affiliated Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Sefer Turan
The Turkish president's chief aide, who advises on Turkey's relations with Arab and Muslim nations, was found to have been a staunch supporter of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, listed by the United Nations Security Council as an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, a Nordic Monitor investigation has revealed.
In a series of articles that appeared mainly in pro-Iran publications in Turkey in the 1990s, Sefer Turan, who now serves as chief advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and influences the country's foreign policy, defended the terrorist group, justified the murders of civilians and government officials in Egypt and leveled criticism against others who described the Islamic Jihad as a terrorist group and condemned the murders.
For example, writing for Turkish magazine Tevhid, funded by the Iranian secret service, back in September 1992, Turan applauded how the Egyptian Islamic Jihad made huge progress with attacks that claimed the lives of many people.
"When we assess the latest attacks by the Islamic Jihad in Egypt, we can see that they made great progress in tactics and in targeting areas. First and foremost, not a single one of them involved in the attacks got caught," Turan wrote, adding, "The success that the Islamic Jihad gained in resistance and counterattacks against the police put the Egyptian government in a difficult position in the public eye."
Iran-funded Turkish Tevhid magazine, which boasts "Islamic Army Is on the Road to Jihad" on its cover.
Sefer described militants who were killed in clashes with Egyptian security services as "martyrs" and claimed that the Egyptian people had lined up behind the organization, did not question the attacks and instead protested against the government when the police launched a crackdown on Islamic Jihad members. "People took to the streets, torched various government buildings and protested strongly against government policies and the police's ugly attitude," he wrote.
The Turkish president's advisor appeared satisfied with the attacks, saying, "Moreover, the attacks against tourists and the tourism industry, which dealt a huge blow to the country's economy, put the government in a difficult position."
In his provocative article Turan also suggested that Christians in Egypt were aiming to establish their own state, maintain an armed Christian militia and use churches to stockpile weaponry while the Egyptian government simply turned a blind eye to the Christians' activities. Instead, he argued, Muslims and Islamic groups showed sensitivity in the matter and had been raising the issue in the public debate.
First page of the article by Sefer Turan that promoted the Islamic Jihad:
Sefer_Turan_Tevhid1
Adding further to the claims in his article, Erdoğan's aide wrote that Christians in Egypt were encouraged by Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Church at the time, whom Turan said had good relations with the United States and former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Ghali, a Coptic Christian, and who Turan maintained had family ties to then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Turan concluded his article by saying that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would have a hard time sustaining his government in Egypt amid the challenges but that only time would tell, expressing hope that the Islamic Jihad would take over the Egyptian government.
Turan's background partially explains why Turkey has troubled relations with Egypt and others as he is today one of the few influential people in key positions in the Turkish government who shape Turkey's ties with Egypt as well as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. The magazine in which he published the article was funded by the Iranian intelligence services.
Second page of Sefer Turan's article promoting the Islamic Jihad:
A criminal case was launched against the people who ran the magazine in 2000 after an investigation found that they were linked to a series of assassinations in Turkey. Iranian intelligence recruited Turkish teams through Tevhid and its successor, the Selam magazine, developed assets in Turkey, and trained them in the use of arms, explosives and surveillance in military camps in Iran. Among the attacks was that targeting Egyptian administrative attaché Abdallah Husayn al-Kurabi, who was wounded when a bomb planted under his car exploded on October 28, 1991. Dozens of Turkish operatives who worked for Iran's secret services were convicted and served time in prison while their handlers, who disguised themselves as Iranian diplomats, were expelled from Turkey.
Nordic Monitor previously published a secret document that revealed Turan was a suspect in a confidential investigation by Turkish prosecutors into the clandestine activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force in Turkey. During the investigation, which was launched in 2010, his phone was wiretapped under a court authorization to obtain the evidence and decipher his ties. However, Erdoğan stepped in and hushed up the investigation in 2014 before prosecutors had time to indict the suspects, saving his aide from criminal prosecution and helping Iranian spies to escape from Turkey.
The cover of the Dünya ve Islam magazine in which Sefer Turan authored a long article praising the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
This is not the only record available that shows how the president's aide made a sales pitch on behalf of the Islamic Jihad. Turan authored another article on the organization in the Dünya ve Islam quarterly and wrote in detail what the organization was all about. In the 14-page article, published in spring 1992, he described the jihad as a revolutionary armed organization that attracted the interest of Egyptian youth, challenged Egyptian authorities and even managed to assassinate a head of state. He tried to promote the Islamic Jihad to his Turkish audience by quoting extensively from members of the group. In a clear effort to please his handlers in Iran, he devoted a special section on how key members of the Islamic Jihad had positive views about the 1979 revolution in Iran and highlighted the Islamic Jihad leaders' comments praising Iran while downplaying criticism from some members.
In the Dünya ve Islam article, Erdogan aide Turan highlighted how the Islamic Jihad viewed the Iranian mullah regime positively.
It is clear from a reading of the article that Turan tried to justify the illegal and armed activities of the Islamic Jihad by what he said of the repression in Egypt and wrote that the organization believed the only way to establish an Islamic state in Egypt was through armed jihad. He concluded his article by suggesting that the Islamic Jihad and other Islamic organizations must be unified in Egypt in order to fully exploit their potential.
In another pro-Iran Turkish magazine, Yeryüzü, Turan informed his readers on July 15, 1992 that the Islamic Jihad had been making significant progress in clashes against the Egyptian police and predicted that it would soon take over the government if it manages to appeal to the Egyptian people amid economic difficulties. He praised the assassination of Egyptian professor and columnist Farag Foda on June 8, 1992 and said the hit showed the Islamic Jihad was capable of executing a carefully laid out plan and had mastered its tactics. Describing Foda as a man who had been attacking Muslims, he interpreted the killing as a message to then-President Mubarak.
Sefer Turan's article praising the murder of Egyptian professor Farag Foda:
Turan_Yeryuzu
Turan did not stop there. He also went after other Turkish publications that were critical of the Islamic Jihad. In an article published next to the Islamic Jihad story in the same magazine, Turan lashed out at the popular Zaman newspaper for describing the Islamic Jihad as a terrorist organization. In the article, titled "According to Zaman, Muslim revolutionaries are 'terrorists'," Turan questioned why Zaman had described the killing of Foda as a "murder" when the academic was clearly an anti-Islam figure. "It is not only totally wrong to describe the killing of a person who has such beliefs [against Islam] as a murder [which means the perpetrators are murderers] but also gaflah [an Arabic word for heedlessness or negligence, which means a sin in the Islamic context] and a murder in itself," Turan wrote. He added that the Islamic Jihad aimed to topple the secular regime in Egypt and had been fighting for it, while the Zaman daily was describing the group as a terrorist entity.
The Zaman daily, which used to sell 1.2 million copies a day at its peak, was seized by the Turkish government in March 2016 on a complaint filed by an al-Qaeda-affiliated, pro-Erdoğan group called "Tahşiyeciler' led by radical imam Mullah Mohammed that claimed the Zaman newspaper had defamed the jihadist group in articles and opinion pieces and helped prosecute its members. President Erdoğan defended the cleric, who urged the killing of Christians and praised al-Qaeda and its late leader Osama bin Ladin.
After the government takeover, the Zaman newspaper was turned into a government mouthpiece overnight, with chief editors immediately dismissed and government loyalists brought in to run the publication. Circulation dropped to 4,000 a week after a major reader backlash, and the government shut it down in July 2016, wiping out decades of work in the newspaper's archives and taking down its website.
Sefer Turan's article that criticized the Zaman newspaper for describing the Islamic Jihad as a terrorist organization:
Turan_zaman_yeryuzu
Zaman was owned by businesspeople who were close the Gülen movement, whose members have been facing imprisonment, torture, surveillance, harassment and threats of death and abduction since 2014, when then-Prime Minister and now President Erdoğan decided to scapegoat the group for his own legal troubles, ranging from corruption to aiding and abetting jihadist groups in Syria. The movement, led by US-based Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, has been an outspoken critic of the Erdoğan government on a variety of issues.
In Turkey, over half a million people affiliated with the Gülen movement have been put in detention facilities on fabricated terrorism charges such as subscribing to Zaman and other critical newspapers in the aftermath of a coup attempt in July 2016. Since then, more than 130,000 civil servants including top diplomats and Constitutional Court judges have been dismissed and/or jailed by the government with no effective judicial or administrative investigation, 4,560 of whom were judges and prosecutors and were replaced by pro-Erdoğan staff. As a result of the massive purge, the Turkish judiciary and law enforcement authorities have become political tools in the hands of the Islamist government of President Erdoğan.
The assets of individuals and entities affiliated with the movement which, according to estimates from Turkey's Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) amounted to $11 billion, were also seized. The government also seized the assets and wealth of critical journalists and deprived them of their livelihood in order to stifle freedom of the press and expression.
UN Security Council document listing the Islamic Jihad as a terrorist group under sanction rules.
The Egyptian Islamic Jihad that Erdoğan's aide was so clearly enamored with was listed on October 6, 2001 by the United Nations as a terrorist group that was associated with al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. It was found to be participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating terror acts and supplying, selling or transferring arms to support the activities of al-Qaeda and bin Laden. The group was led by Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri, who later became the main strategist and theoretician of al-Qaeda.
The Islamic Jihad was responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. It also claimed responsibility for the attempted assassinations in 1993 of Interior Minister Hassan Al-Alfi and Prime Minister Atef Sedky. The group was responsible for bombing the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad in 1995 and plotted a similar attack against the US Embassy in Albania in 1998.
In 2001 the Egyptian Islamic Jihad joined forces with bin Laden's al-Qaeda and was active worldwide under the umbrella of al-Qaeda. Its operatives played a key role in the attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001, according to data provided by the UN's ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.
Former leaders of the Islamic Jihad formed a political party called the Islamic Party in 2011 in Egypt.
Turkish President Erdoğan hosted Khaled Mashaal of Hamas in his office, accompanied by his aide Sefer Turan (R) in 2015.
Erdoğan gov't enlisted the help of convicted, alcoholic, womanizing military officer to prosecute opponents in sham trials
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Cleaning professionals know how fast moss, algae and residues from exhaust gases can make a gravestone look unsightly. If the gravestone cleaning fails, it's not long until even the grave inscription cannot be read.
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Retrospective: How Google Monopolised The Search Market
May 7, 2015 Bob Leggitt
The main Google homepage as it appeared in 1998. Note the Yahoo!-style exclamation mark (which was dropped at the end of the site's beta phase) and the Stanford Uni copyright attribution.
How strange it is to zip back through the years and revisit old articles from the 1990s – their writers referring to Google as the "The new search engine, Google.com", and scratching their heads as to how the company was ever going to make any money. The scene, when Google first arrived, was awash with search brands such as AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Hotbot, Dogpile, a host of others, and significantly as regards the future of Google, a new player by the name of GoTo.
Search results were very erratic at the time. Before Google, search engines could either opt for quality, or volume. Pre-sifting or filtering the results for quality (with human input) took time, and therefore limited the volume or size of a qualitatively-graded index. Going all-out for maximum volume, meanwhile, limited the quality of the results. So by and large, you could either have a smaller index with good relevance filtering, or you could have a much bigger index which was very hit and miss in terms of relevance.
But Google pioneered a groundbreaking search algorithm, which cunningly used the Internet's own recommendation protocol – hyperlinks – to automatically determine the perceived quality of each piece of content. Only Google's search system could create an index of massive volume, whilst inherently ordering all the contents based on perceived popularity.
Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the project in early 1996 as a reaction to their own disillusionment with conventional Web search. Their project's basic core principle of auto-grading a Web page's popularity based on the number and trust factor of hyperlinks directed towards it (a concept known as PageRank), was deceptively simple. It was, however, also world-beatingly powerful.
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How the mighty Google monopolised the search market.
PORTAL HELL
When Google hit the World Wide Web in 1998, the default progression for a search company was to turn the search homepage into a portal. The industry was going portal mad. Everything either was a portal, or wanted to be a portal. If you built a search engine before the turn of the century, your goal was to 'portalise' it. That's where the revenue was – or was supposed to be.
One-time search king AltaVista during its 'portal' phase in summer 2000.
But Google had other ideas. Indeed, the newcomer's refusal to jump onto the portal bandwagon really confused some professional commentators. When Google categorically ruled out becoming a portal, some writers dismissed the company's future on that precise basis. People knew Google had a great search engine from the start, but the notion was that if it couldn't be monetised, it could not survive.
Google, meanwhile, could see the future. It could see that masses of people loathed portals, and that the tacky, distracting, media sideshows bloating out search pages were driving users away. Additionally, portals were getting harder to monetise, as a notion spread that they were less lucrative from the client side than had first been envisaged. The more bloat portals added, the less lucrative each individual placing was likely to become; and the less lucrative each placing became, the more bloat the portals needed to add. The portal concept was a vicious circle.
In overview, Web surfers wanted to find specific results, and then leave the search engine to explore those results. That was the whole point of a search engine. But the portals' revenue stream needed users to stay on site, and that ran contrary to what a search engine was supposed to be for. It would make much more sense to implement a revenue stream which profited from users getting the best, most relevant search results, and then clicking on those results. In other words, a pay per click system, in which advertisers paid to have interested parties directed to their sites.
GoTo.com (seen above in its original 1998 guise) was the forerunner of Google in terms of its minimalism and its preference for pay per click advertising. Indeed, GoTo's subsequent owner would later litigate against Google in relation to a facet of AdWords, which it considered to be a patent infringement. Eventually, GoTo's successful pay per click mechanism was acquired by Yahoo!
Pay per click had a rather vulgar air about it in the mid to late '90s. In 1998, the only competitor using the practice was the aforementioned significant newbie – GoTo. More established brands wouldn't touch the idea, for fear it would taint their image and destroy them. But Google, itself part of the new wave, must have been taking note of GoTo's early success with pay per click, and envisioning something closely related as the centrepiece of its own commercial needs. Pay per click was compatible both with clients' needs, and importantly, users' needs. It could be integrated into the search results themselves, which meant the perception of distractions and bloat would not enter the equation. Google's concept of a simpler, wider-reaching, and more intelligent way of returning search results was tailor made for pay per click.
Google after full launch in the second half of 1999.
Fascinatingly, in 1999 when portal-mania was reaching a crescendo, Google not only flatly ruled out becoming a portal – it also saw itself as an entirely separate market from the portals, which it viewed as media sites with a token search box, rather than search sites with added media. Even in the first half of '99 Google literally saw itself as having no competition, and that sounded very much like a genuine belief as opposed to arrogant sales speak. The claim also turned out to be entirely correct.
This prophetic post from December 1998 sums the situation up…
That a couple of grad students could build a better search engine than a whole raft of media and technology companies with stock-market valuations in the billions does not speak well of how these firms are spending their budgets.
But that author's view of the overall picture was not shared by the IT media as a whole. At a time when Google had still not revealed its commercial strategy, and was assumed not to have one, there was a sense in many quarters that monetisation should come first. Some writers played down Google's technical superiority – warning that it would count for nothing if the company could not find a means to earn serious revenue.
Whilst this debate was raging in mid 1999, Google acquired its first $25million in venture capital investment. Already, the secret plan was almost certainly a rough vision of the pay per click system AdWords, which officially launched a little over a year later. But a lot of people were underestimating the disarmingly coy Google in '99. It was just another of the many dot-coms in which people were investing "silly money", seemingly without any idea of where the return would come from. That investment was a last chance warning sign for all Google's competitors to take the company much more seriously, but none of them saw what was coming. They were too busy scoring own goals.
PUBLIC ADOPTION
Google's 'BETA' screen – May 1999.
If you search for genuine original Web posts mentioning Google in 1998 and 1999, there's actually very little there. Virtually all of what you get by default is more recent posts which people have backdated. You have to heavily filter the results with advanced search techniques to drill through to the real stuff.
After you've singled out the posts that genuinely do come from the 1990s, much of what you have left is either heavy academic analysis packed with mathematical equations, or the odd professional appraisal. Indeed, for a sizeable chunk of 1999, Google's homepage was still marked with a 'BETA' designation, and the service didn't officially come out of beta for a full launch until 21st September that year. By then, in total the project had been on the go for the best part of four years.
Going into the new century, however, wider public discussion about Google did quickly and sharply increase. Even as late as 2000, some professional writers (or at least magazine contributors) were not necessarily awarding Google the status of top search engine in shootouts. But in real homes and offices, the exodus from AltaVista and Yahoo! towards Google was well in motion by 2000, and whilst some IT journalists still didn't quite seem ready to admit it, the die was now cast.
Google did deliver better search results, but not, for most users, so obviously better that this factor alone could dismantle the competition. What really accelerated the migration into the arms of Google, was the chaos and bloat of previous search king AltaVista. AV's whacking great page of portal features cheesed users off. You see that confirmed again and again in discussions from the time. AltaVista dropped its portal features in September 2000 (notably a short time after Google finally showed its commercial hand with the introduction of AdWords), but by then it was too late, and Google had already showcased its talents to AV's disillusioned masses.
By winter 2001, the majority of ordinary users were acknowledging Google as the new king of search engines.
AltaVista circa December 1996. Five years later this hugely popular search engine had been well and truly turned over by Page and Brin's almighty successor.
So it could be said that rather than Google striking a killer punch to the temple of AltaVista and Co, AltaVista and Co committed commercial suicide. The lesson was: don't annoy your userbase with irritating crap when there's a free, impeccably-behaved alternative on the scene. But it wasn't a lesson AltaVista could learn for next time. There wasn't going to be a second chance. Rivals needed to take Google seriously in the first half of 1999, when they still had the clout to shut it out of the mass market. They didn't, and they paid the price.
Whereas a lot of Google's late '90s rivals would knowingly damage the user experience in order to make more money, Google recognised that the user experience was absolutely central to the site's success. One of the things we perhaps overlook today is the issue of page load times. With people using dial-up connections in the 1990s and the start of the new century, a page that took ages to load, really did take ages to load! Google's minimalistic approach was not only easier on the eye – the fast page load was a timesaver for many, many users. And given the way ISPs charged for bandwidth back then, Google was also a money saver.
Another of the unsung features which helped Google kill off its rivals was the highly controversial cache. Google must have known the cache (which temporarily archived complete web pages on Google's own site) was a massive risk in terms of potential copyright infringement cases, but it also knew the cache was an exceptionally powerful feature. Once again, when you look back at the comments of early Google adopters, you see the cache making a positive impression. Being able to access a search result even when the target site was down, at a time when sites were often down, gave Google exceptional reliability.
Google around the "point of no return" in 2000, complete with an intro link for AdWords.
So Google's package was very much about a compound effect, in which not just the main feature was better than the competition – but every detail was better. Whereas the competitors set out to persuade users that they wanted things they really didn't want, Google just set out to give users what they did want. Why was that a better plan? Because persuasion costs a vast amount of money in ad campaigns, whereas stuff people automatically like will promote itself. From the start, Google intended to be as minimal with promotion as with its interface. But it didn't matter. When you're the best in every way, and your service is free, you don't need to advertise.
The point of no return in the Web search market probably came in mid 2000, when after a string of awards, Google outgrew its rivals in terms of index volume, and was selected to power Yahoo!'s well established search engine. From that point on, there was a sense that the only tactic other huge search brands could adopt, was a resigned "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" policy. Everyone could now see that the mighty Google was unbeatable, and as its market share grew exponentially, it wasn't just a better choice for paying advertisers – it was, realistically, the only choice. What's the point of advertising on a search engine 98% of surfers don't use? None. Advertisers will always want access to the majority, and that's what Google has consistently provided ever since.
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3.35pm AEDT – 11.35pm US Eastern – John McCain has conceded defeat in the US presidential election.
In a magnificently gracious speech, the Arizona senator reached heights of compelling emotion not seen in his ragged campaign performances.
Senator Barack Obama is within sight of becoming the next President of the United States.
Obama is well ahead in Pennsylvania, the state regarded as the key to a McCain win. He is also leading in Florida, 51-48%, with 41% counted. Without these states, McCain cannot win.
Obama has won the traditional clutch of Democratic states in the north-east: Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington DC, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
McCain has won Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Oklahoma, all traditional Republican states.
Obama is holding his own in North Carolina but is well behind in Virginia, the state where he has been predicted to win for some weeks.
The Democrats have picked up extra Senate seats in Virginia and North Carolina.
The Observer, the Sunday companion of London's Guardian newspaper, has endorsed Barack Obama in this week's presidential election.
This is the text of The Observer's editorial.
The New York Times has given its 2008 presidential election endorsement to Senator Barack Obama.
The Times described Obama as a candidate who "has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change", in contrast to Senator John McCain who "has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaig on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism".
This is the text of the New York Times editorial.
The New Republic has published an editorial endorsing Senator Barack Obama in next month's presidential election.
The endorsement is the latest in a growing list of media recommendations of the Democratic contender against his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain.
This is the text of The New Republic's editorial.
Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President.
Powell, a Republican, is a former Secretary of State in President George W. Bush's first term, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the man who led Operation Desert Storm against Saddam Hussein, and National Security Adviser to the first President Bush.
This is the transcript of General Colin Powell's endorsement of Senator Barack Obama. The transcript of the full interview is available from NBC's Meet The Press.
MR. BROKAW: General Powell, actually you gave a campaign contribution to Senator McCain. You have met twice at least with Barack Obama. Are you prepared to make a public declaration of which of these two candidates that you're prepared to support?
In what was probably their last joint appearance before the November 4 election, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have spoken at the annual Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York.


A mother has slammed Disneyland Paris for refusing to let her son take part in a "Princess for the Day" experience package – just because he's a boy.
Hayley McLean-Glass took to her blog, Sparkles & Stretchmarks, to pen an open letter to the theme park after they refused to book her three-year-old son, Noah, in for the experience.
McLean-Glass goes on to say that when she learnt the park offered a "Princess for the Day" package, described online as "a total Princess makeover and hair-styling session; a fairytale transformation they'll treasure forever", she knew there was "nothing he'd love more".
However, when she emailed the park to reserve her son a place, she was bluntly told, "at this time it is not possible to book Princess for a Day for a boy".
"I was so angry, I literally couldn't stop shaking for half an hour afterwards," she later told ITV News.
And as well as handling the immediate shock of having her son banned from such a harmless activity, McLean-Glass also shared her fears for how her son would feel if he knew he had been banned because of his gender.
"My son is very young, he doesn't yet have any idea that there is such judgement and outdated perspectives in the world," she wrote.
Following the incident, Disneyland has since issued a statement of apology to McLean-Glass, in which it stated that Noah would be welcome to be a Princess for the day.
"Of course, both boys and girls are welcome to enjoy The Princess For a Day experience in addition to all our other special activities," the statement read.
Here's hoping Noah has a truly magical time when he finally gets to dress up as his favourite character for the day.


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Q: How to allow Unauthenticated users to reset password? Please see Update Below:
I am using ASP.NET SQL Membership Provider.
So far I am able to allow users to change their password but only if they are authenticated or logged into the application.
What I really need is for users to be able to get a link in an email. They can click this link and reset their password.
Example: Lets say a user forgets his or her password, they can visit a page which they can either enter security question and answer; or their email address on file. They will then get an email with a link to reset their password.
All I have so far is this: Which allows only authenticated users to reset their passwords:
I do not want to use the Recovery Control which generates a password.
public void ChangePassword_OnClick(object sender, EventArgs args)
{

MembershipUser user = Membership.GetUser(User.Identity.IsAuthenticated);

try
{
if (user.ChangePassword(OldPasswordTextbox.Text, PasswordTextbox.Text))
{
Msg.Text = "Password changed.";
}
else
{
Msg.Text = "Password change failed. Please re-enter your values and try again.";
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Msg.Text = "An exception occurred: " + Server.HtmlEncode(e.Message) + ".
try again.";
  }
 }

I can create the store procedure and the email using a String Builder but I do not know how to get the un-authenticated user to change password. Is there a way for the user to be Authenticated when they click the link. I am not sure how to even ask this.
Thanks for reading:
Update:
Okay I managed to get the password to Reset using this code:
protected void btnResetPassword_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  string username = "ApplePie12";
  MembershipUser currentUser = Membership.GetUser(username);
  currentUser.ChangePassword(currentUser.ResetPassword(), txtResetPassword.Text);
}

Here is my plan:

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*Make this page public so that it is access by Un-Authenticated Users but only via email link.

*Create a Stored Procedure that verifies a user Exists either by the UserName they enter or by the Security Question/Answer.

*If they exists, they are sent a link containing a token/GUID

*Lastly when they click the link they will land on this page asking them to change password. *The Link Expires as soon as it is used.
My only question is: Doing all of the above requires turning off using security Question/Answer in the Web Config file.
I really would love to have the Security question as an option for the user to either verify by email or security question. If this is not possible, I'll have to create some kind of account number or userid (not membership user id) as an alternative.

A: My answer is not specific to Membership Provider, but hopefully will point you in the right direction. Typically the way to approach this is to generate a very long random string, called a token. You send them a link that includes this token as a parameter, something like:
http://foo.bar/reset?token=asldkfj209jfpkjsaofiu029j3rjs-09djf09j1pjkfjsodifu091jkjslkhfao
Inside your application you keep track of tokens you have generated. If you receive a request containing that token, you authenticate it as if it was that user.
A couple notes:

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*The token generated should be random and effectively unguessable in a short period of time.

*The token should only work for a short period of time after being generated, ideally shorter than the time required to guess it.

*The token should only be usable once. Once a user has changed their password using it, remove it from the system.

A: Chris has given definitely the correct solution.
You can use the sql table for token management. the token may be UserId or Email that are unique. the link used for reset email like http://test.com/reset?id=sfksdfh-24204_23h7823.
    The id in the url is encrypted Userid or Email as you like.
Fetch the detail from table on the basis of id in Url. if id contain in database. then reset the password for user. and remove that token from DB.

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Are Build Magazine Awards legit or scam?
Yesterday we received an email from Dan A. of BUILD Magazine (build-review.com, previously build-news.com) congratulating us on our winning of one of their awards. It came out of the blue, he admits, and it was an interesting surprise for us, because it made some unwarranted assumptions about us and our business.
We'd just like to point out that not only we consider the business model BUILD Magazine follows to make profit controversial – awarding us without merit and inviting us to pay for the trophy, they are also taking actions that we deem as unethical to protect that model, as they have submitted a take-down request to Google in the form of a "Defamation Complaint" in which it's requested that this very article is removed from search results on the grounds that "is having a negative affect on the publication's reputation".
What AI Global Media should bear in mind is that, among other legal characteristics, a statement must be false in order for it to be considered defamation, which clearly is not the case here: we have actually received a number of awards from them without merit and then invited to pay for trophies, as we have proved below.
The fact that they requested Google to remove our legitimate article (and others) from search results does more to confirm than infirm our conclusion that they are conducting their business in a way that can be considered unethical.
We published another article here where we speak about the other awards we received from BUILD Magazine (we received a total of three, judging by the emails we kept) and where we give evidence that these actually exist and were completely unwarranted in our case, thus qualifying as vanity awards.
So, short answer: we can't tell if the BUILD Magazine Awards are a scam, but we received an award for invented reasons and we were invited to pay up to £2,595 (why that fiver?) to advertise the winning in their magazine. BUILD Magazine is one of the magazines owned by AI Global Media which offer such awards. Please read below.
We're defining the world
We've had a spectacular journey
Winning prizes costs us money
Vanity awards
1. We're defining the world
He starts by saying that their research team (a vague term, meaning no recognised authority) has put House Extension Designs forward as a winner in their Defining the World, 2016 awards.
He goes with making an appeal to the importance of having a good public reputation using a what it looks like a classic FUD (Fear, uncertainty and doubt) argument, basically a disinformation strategy used in (but certainly not limited to) sales, marketing and politics meant to emphasise the negative aspects (or make false claims) about a situation or argument and appeal to fear in order to convince people to do or not to do something. In our case, is arguing that since reputation is an important aspect of this sector – no reputation, no clients, no money and this sector is taking hits (as we know, he reminds us) – if we haven't already, we may take such a hit any time now, we deserve a prize for pulling through.
This award, therefore, is for our work over the last 5 years that have really made an impact on the industry.
Seriously? An impact on the industry?
Well, that's nice. We have certainly worked our elbows off and made an impact somewhere along the way, but we're not nearly there in terms of how much we influenced the industry. And, what's funnier, we didn't even try to do that. Our niche is rather well defined, we work with a fine architect who knows her thing very well and delivers like the pro she is.
2. We've had a spectacular journey
Dan of BUILD Magazine continues, he says that their in-house awards are administered by their dedicated research team who's put a lot of work into creating some well documented lists of companies like us who did a great job and now they wanted to shine the light on the most respected firms out there in this industry.
House Extension Designs London has had a spectacular and impressive journey, and has defined a pathway for future firms to follow and become successful. As rightful leader in your practice, our readers are keen to hear about the top firms around the globe in this industry. We want to present House Extension Designs London in our publication and showcase your services, missions and achievements on a global level.
See, this is how we know that if it's not a scam it is at least a poorly planned strategy for BUILD Magazine to make money and not actually bring value to their readers and to the architecture and construction markets by helping everybody determine why House Extension Designs is worth their time and money. We wouldn't want to pay a subscription to a magazine that gives away awards to random companies they find online, as if they know what's happening with those entities, how well they perform in terms of the quality of their work.
It's true, our journey so far has been impressive, but only for us. The market barely knows about us – and if it does, it because of the guys we hired to do the SEO and keep an eye on our web results, our clients are mostly home-owners, we haven't created any ground breaking architectural models and designs, we surely haven't defined a pathway for future firms to follow and become successful. We're a small fish in a large, highly competitive ocean. We are not a leader in our practice as much as we'd love to be. And BUILD Magazine's readers don't want to know about us, unless we're going to bring something new to their tables.
(Which we believe we do. We work at lower prices than the market average simply because we can afford it. For now, at least. But that's a different story.)
3. Winning prizes costs us money
The delusion of grandeur and prize winning for doing a job well isn't our thing. We're set on drawing house extension designs and we work with various building companies and engineers to implement those designs, we try to be good at it and so far we've done a fine job, but that's all we do for now.
We usually work with home owners, many of which are not happy to share pictures of their private houses online and we didn't do much to convince them either. There's very little chance that entities such as BUILD Magazine would know how well we did and what impact we actually had in the past 5 years unless they spoke with our clients.
What they did with this message is called fishing in our books, they're sending this sort of emails to many companies and hope some will take on their not-quite-earned awards and pay for the announcement.
They are hoping to create value where there is little or none by claiming they know what they're talking about when, as a matter of fact, they really don't know how and where we stand within the industry. Just like CIO Magazine does. Just like companies like Gartner do in a way, by positioning themselves in a place where they make bold judgements and market predictions that turn out to be wrong and charge many willing companies along the way, either to be included as a recommended solution for a problem (albeit indirectly – and they sure make a big case of that) or to offer consultations on how to deal with various problems. Other analysts are just as good. It's a business model that we don't want to encourage. Educated guesses are still guesses and the profit margins for guessing should be adjusted to reality.
They also hope we'd give in to our ego-driven rationale, that we are in fact good (which it's true, people) and that we do deserve recognition for our hard work, so we might as well take the award and pay them up to £2,595 (cheaper options exist as well) to announce it in their magazine. Like many companies did in 2015 for one of their awards, here: build-news.com/2015-architecture . So many that being or not included there wouldn't make much difference anyway.
No, thank you. We're good for now. Us being so incredible and all means we'd probably agree if they'd offer us £500 / year to place an advertisement banner to a real product, their magazine that is.
4. Vanity awards
This scheme is called a vanity award scheme and it's considered a form of scam by some organisations, like the Better Business Bureau, who has been issuing warnings against it for some time now. Read more on the entrepreneur.com and Wikipedia.
20-12-2016: Edited the name of the person who emailed us, for privacy reasons.
05-04-2017: Added links on headings, reformulated some phrases, added summary and the yellow text box.
07-06-2017: Added the green box, where we mention that AI Global Media has unsuccessfully attempted to remove this article from Google search restults.
September 22, 2016 /79 Comments/by Leon Abrien
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Build News awards – we received 3 for absolutely nothing
Cathy Lombard says:
I had a very similar reaction when my employer also won the Defining the World, 2016 award. I wanted to be flattered, but I just could not believe that a four man plumbing operation in Minnesota impressed a group of experts in London.
We do an excellent job for a fair price. We are super busy even though we never spend a penny on advertising. (There is a connection between those sentences.) But we are not, by any definition, defining the world.
Rather than forking over thousands of pounds to Build Magazine so they can improve my reputation, I think I will pay my vendors and maintain my current reputation.
And there was me thinking we'd won it?
Surprise surprise, we have received TWO nominations for two different awards in one week! Funny enough both companies are based at the same address and share the same phone number – BUILD Magazine and Middle Market Monthly.
One nomination I could believe but this was a bit of a farce. Funny enough, when questioned on the phone, the troubled lady from Build Magazine didn't have anything clever to say about the other company…. Avoid and focus on respected and well-known awards!
Shon says:
Oh, that's a ridiculous amount of money for an award! It is quite appalling that there are people in the architecture industry who exist to do that sort of thing.
G Pressley says:
I know it is a scam, they have just emailed me to say they have surplus stocks of the award and we can have it for the bargain basement price of £200 plus VAT!!!!
That Dan Armshaw keeps sending us email that reminding us that we won an award and our so called certificate is sitting at his desk for a very long time.
He also insisting that we're a boring/tunneling company. I just want to laugh so hard.
Dan, if you're reading this, if you're reading this message, make sure that your "researchers" know what they're researching.
Ray Kipping says:
It extends to the cleaning industry as well. We have just won their award for Office Cleaners of the year – North England. Which would have been fine but we are based in the south !
But I will still be advertising to new client enquiries that we won the award (will just leave out the North bit)
Michael Halliwell says:
My firm has nothing to do with house building…but we apparently won too. Full on scam.
Rob Wesley says:
My company just won the "Technology Firm of the Year" and is the "exclusive winner from the USA". "the standout firms in their class, judging on growth, innovation, client ROI and more." Too bad it's been mothballed since 2008 and isn't currently in operation.
Gabrielle Robinson says:
We've won in prior sessions as well. I actually proceeded all the way through using their free option on one award, thinking maybe I could scam the scammers. I was so hoping we would be mentioned in their magazine, for free, as a the best sustainable architecture firm in the Washington. Once the magazine was put out I saw now mention of us. Turns out they have a separate awards issue, with only the winners who offered to pay included, and no other industry stories, editorials etc. I dont even know who receives this "special issue" other than the winners. The online edition was only firm profiles on those that paid. I dont understand the value of buying terrible publicity, or buying a rather fake trophy. I too was flattered and hopeful. I hope Daniel [Edited], Hanna [Edited], and Kaven [Edited] are ashamed of their company and its scam.
Jon Parkinson says:
Looks like they are at it again. Again this year we have won, again. Our business is in Oman and Dubai. Infrastructure Awards – Best Infrastructure Project Management Consultancy & Recognized Leaders in Construction & Engineering Dispute Resolutions. Though, to be fair we are one of a VERY small handful of businesses that are in this line of business. The cost for us to accept this is £195 + £ 15 shipping. How did this company in the UK find us, and how was or is the evaluation done – there is no mention of our company or any other company on their website – I find this very unusual. We have hosted award ceremonies 'The big project awards' in Dubai but we never charged people to accept their trophies and the previous winners are all named on the official website of the 'big project awards' website.
Just won the Technology company of the year award from BUILD, to add to my recently acquired 'Technology Development and Consultancy of the Year' from both TMT News and Acquisition International. It's been a hell of a year. They've clearly done their homework too, since we're extremely niche and work on Government projects – broadcasting no details whatsoever. Cobblers.
You can't have won those, Paul. Cos I've won them. I don't want to give too much away, but the £2,995+VAT fee seems absurdly cheap considering all the gr8 coverage we'll get. That we have to pay postage and packing on top if we want to receive our IMPRESSIVE CRYSTAL TROPHY only seems fair. I don't suppose those things shift themselves.
It is a sad reality that many organisations have fell into the trap of paying for their advertisements which are essentially pointless. It's a mere marketing ploy, but with a different approach to try and convince you that you have won a "sought-after" award (despite many of these "awards" never been run before). It's a complete SCAM! As many on here have mentioned, if you don't pursue with paying (despite being told all winners get a free press release) there is no mention of your company anywhere in the publication. It's also interesting that they don't boast their circulation anywhere, because I should imagine it's extremely small; this magazine is not legit, recognised or respected in the industry whatsoever.
Arthur Mason says:
Just over 110,00 apparently, – according to DANIEL H[edited] who attempted to relieve me of £495.
Pamela Vernaus says:
We just got nominated by Acquisition International or International Acquisition for world business leader. Sadly we are a niche television network with no more than 100 employees and are a non-for profit. There were a lot of type o's in the email as well.
Ms Mug says:
Oh no, I've won (or have I) two awards this year. Will not be coughing up for those awards, editorial, etc.
OAM says:
Wow! Glad I Google'd these awards…considered submitting an entry but sounds like we'll get shortlisted without (just like the rest of the country!)
Ian Best says:
Dan H. [edited] from BUILD contacted me to say that I had made the Top 50, but I'd have to pay 395 sterling for advertising!
FLATTERED! The awards team have named me UK's winner in the Engineering Excellence Award category, – who wouldn't be flattered!? So I get a complimentary winner's certificate and full copyright to the award logo, free! So, what is "BUILD"? – well apparently it is distributed to just over110,000 subscribers, – executives, directors, technical managers, etc in the construction , engineering, architecture and design sectors, – and for £495 I can have a full 2-page spread, a full-page ad in an issue of my choice, and a personalised crystal trophy & digital logo! Nice!- I wonder just how much they know about my one-man band that specialises in a particular field of vintage aircraft restoration!? Thank you DANIEL H[edited], – not interested, – BBC's "Watchdog" might be!!
S. Lyne says:
I received a message from TMT News last year, which, as I found out, is owned by the same company that owns Build News. This "newspaper" is owned by Ai Global Media. If you do a quick online research about Ai Global Media you'll learn that they have a number of such magazines which graciously offer awards in exchange for money. I really can't say much about the "methodology" they use to establish which companies truly deserve an award since such methodology is not public (I may be wrong, I just couldn't find anything clear) and, therefore, can't be trusted as far as I'm concerned.
It is, as the author mentioned, a vanity award scheme. If fact, if you go to Wikipedia and look for this vanity award scheme, you will find Ai Global Media mentioned there, as it's a known business model and it can be profitable if few or no people speak about it.
It's a pity, in my humble opinion, that we encouraged this sort of business model to thrive, but I guess we can only blame those who actually pay for those awards (and, my God, they are so many!) for trying to fool their clients that these awards are actually worth anything and they themselves are being praised for something.
I know I have no basis for not to believing your frustrations, but can any of you prove that you have actually received these emails (with email headers)? And if you can, would you be willing to post them on Pastebin.com (without any personal information regarding individuals) and link to them here or maybe by email?
Leon Abrien says:
I can. Please see the updated article during the course of the day.
Edit (10.05.2017): for convenience, here's the article.
Thanks Leon, that's perfect!
I've just received an email – and being the pessimist that I am, hopped on Google to investigate the legitimacy of these 'Build Magazine Awards'. I'm happy to pop something on Pastebin and email the link to you.
Hi Rosie, I'd rather not put down my email address in public, but I would appreciate it if you could reply here with a link to the Pastebin copy-pasta. Thanks again!
John Mann says:
Hi, I actually worked for them and know the whole scam if you are interested to know ?
Bogus awards with zero credibility
DB says:
These guys are really going the extra mile to remove unflattering comments and legitimate complaints about their activities online. This article and whole bunch of others have been submitted to Google to be removed from search results, claiming that they're defamatory, as if complaining about a practice that may be considered unethical automatically means people are trying to damage their reputation: https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/13260993
I can only be happy that they haven't removed it, because I was about to pay for one of the AI Global Media "awards", but I decided to google about the company beforehand and I found this post and a few others.
Thanks for the find and the comment, DB! I can't believe they did that.
Justin P says:
I've been receiving a few of these lately.. My first impression is that as we're in Australia, what use is an award to us in a magazine that is in the UK. All the details in his email sound dodgy to me.. judged by an internal panel (more like a spam bot set to hit as many email accounts as possible).
Da says:
Has anyone actually tried to purchase any of their packages? If so, has anyone actually received something after purchasing?
Ich habe 2019 Auszeichnung (in A4-Format) per Post bekommen. (Vorab per E-Mail angekündigt durch Herrn Kavin Cooper) Bezahlt habe ich aber nicht. Es gibt auch keinerlei Trophäe..
Hugh Ryan says:
I would like to offer an award to all those who have taken the time to expose what I also believe to be a very questionable practice, and based on yet another email which I received this morning, they are still at it.
TONY HONEYFORD says:
Yes I smelled a scam when they contacted me cos i'd also won an award- I told them to sling thier hook. But after googling my name (for other reasons), I was surprised to see it in a list of 'top 50' architects (I'm not even an architect) – grouped alongside other american and european contenders.
Well I suddenly realised that they must have spotted the unique brilliance of my work when viewing local authority planning databases. It didn't take long to convince myself that my unique take on how to illustrate a plan view of a swinging door was just part of what gained me this critical attention and subsequent award.
https://issuu.com/aiglobalmedia/docs/build_april_2017_-_architecture_top/22
Giles the Award Winning Builder says:
Daniel certainly is a busy boy! Being the recipient of multiple awards I would like to nominate Daniel for the Largest E[edited] Award 2000 – 2017 (translates to 'Biggest P[edited] Award' for our friends across the pond). Seems apt for someone who thinks we are collectively stupid enough to fall for his bull. Anyway got to run. I've just been asked to help a former African General transfer a gazillion £££ out of Africa! It's totally legit and all I have to do is send some personal info including my bank details. Giles the former builder and now multi millionaire (once the African General transfers the dosh)
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These guys are unbelievable, they send all kinds of spam without the possibility of unsubscribing. the comment that they posted here shows how evil and soulless they are.
I imagine these monsters are waking up every morning with an evil spark, trying to convince themselves that it is ok, it is the way of the world, if not us than others and so on.
Do you think they can be sued for spam or something?
J cullen says:
Past employer. They generate large excel files of various business, invent fitting awards, then send mass mail mergers. If you don't generate lots of sales you get the push overnight. Vanity award not worth a sheet of toilet paper.
On top of all this… they awarded us a prize for a project we competed in (in 2005) and lost.
This Award was issued in 2017. Probably not a scam, just an unethical way to make money from egocentric architecture and design firms.
ScammersNightmare says:
We won the "Best in Green Building for the USA – 2017" … we manufacture Hot Water Circulation Systems.
I always look at the tiny print on things… I think his tiny print at the end of the email speaks volumes…
"Any views or opinions expressed are soley those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company as a whole."
So, it's actually an award presented by Daniel Hornsby, company title "Head of Features (scams?) – Build Magazine
The email we received;
Hi, we received one of these from build-review.com — apparently they've changed the domain name and website title, but they kept the credo intact.
I'm surprised that in the age of internet there are companies who accept this sort of "awards". Don't they know that the risk of looking dodgy to their customers outweighs the benefits of appearing like they've actually received an award on merit when that's an obvious misrepresentation of the truth?
Luciano Santinelli says:
Thank you for this article. I am sure it took you some time and effort to post it and keep it posted and It just saved me some time trying to figure out who this people are and why I got a "Nomination" in Brazil for the multinational company based in the US I work for.
The company is a leader in its industry and does not need to pay for any "Awards".
its still happening in 2018…
Jessika Diamond says:
Thank you for this. My company actually runs legit awards (we're a service organization that certifies high-performance homes like ENERGY STAR and Net Zero in Ontario, Canada on behalf of groups like the federal government) and we actually HAVE been nominated for other groups' awards, but like ours, most of those we had to at least attempt to pursue. So I wondered when we got this out of the blue… the non-specific language got my Spidey-sense tingling immediately!
Thankfully your article cleared that one up for me in seconds. :)
I've wrote an article to help get awareness out about this scam:
https://www.powermyhome.uk/pv-solar-panels/award-winning-solar-panel-enthusiasts
[Admin note: the article is about the Sustainable Building Award, offered by Build Magazine.]
Al Dore says:
yeah, here we are… a wholesale company for wood…. we have won an award? For what? For developing a new kind of selling? Really? This is so lame, I cannot even laugh about it. Stop bothering me and take care of your damn own sh…!
We also received the same email saying we were shortlisted for an award we never even submitted to. No website is listed and the entire body of the email are links to pay them large sums of money. This is most definitely a scam.
Stephen Albumin says:
Shocking.
Lars Chr. says:
It seems the AI Global Media only publish their magazines on issuu. They have 1266 magazines with 1267 folowers.
(basically means they folow their own magazines and have won 1 folower) –
You dont get any walue for you'r money, but at least it's a good looking scam – must have hired a pro layouter)
Michelle Ringland says:
I am so glad that you article is in fact still available on the internet. Remarkably we have just secured a Best for Industry Health and Safety UK award 2018. for a nice sum of £495.
We wont of course be taking up the offer as the awards we strive to secure are industry recognised where there is a formal judging process, otherwise they lack credibility
Thank you for this article. Just won one of these awards and couldn't understand why…. now I see why!
If I had time I would play along, but too busy at the mo, but once again, well done on this article it will save a lot of people time and money!
Woo hoo – I've been nominated this year for the first time! They have got cleverer – my e-mail tells me that I have been "nominated" for the award and it is also for "lighting". I wonder if they will be able to tell me who nominated me if I call to ask them?!!! I wonder if it will be something that the nominee prefers to keep anonymous perhaps! Thanks for this post – I almost got sucked in but my gut feeling told me that it wasn't quite right and this came up close to the top of my Google search. You are doing a good thing here guys.
micromundo says:
Wow, thanks for your article. So this shi* is still happening in 2018, almos 2019… I can't believe it. And I'm so worried about making things right and being ultra honest in everything I do regarding business. Can we not do anything to sue this bastar*s? I hate [admin edited bad word] like this. We're trying to set up our own little design and workshop furniture company, and it's so hard, and the last thing we need is parasites like this making us believe even for a second, that the deal is true. Can we sue them collectively or something? Agh.
Magnus says:
I received a similar email from the magazine for a 2018 peize, and I just have a portfolio website, no actual buildings or projects done in 2018! Such a scam.
Darryl Walsh says:
We are a registered UK charity who provide removal services , looks like they haven't done their homework, targeting charities could be there worst mistake i mean home building awards …… come on we move junk for the elderly and clear gardens to raise money for our food bank middletoncommunitytrust.co.uk
our food bank charity just got an award for house building ………. oh my is there any morals left with these hacks
Safety Checked Ltd says:
We have also won an award for "Best Domestic Electrical Testing Company 2019". How is that even a category?!
We may be, however they have done no research into our company at all or spoken with anyone at our company regarding this award.
We suspected a scam from the start, and having read your post above I now believe that it is. I was tempted to use the award for advertising/promotional purposes (without paying), but fear that it may harm our reputation to do so given that it has no merit to it.
Good News!!
I just found our nomination in the spam folder…… Thank you for the article!
If anyone wants to give us a legit award for 10 years in business and doing a grand job we'll have that, for free of course!
F&A says:
And now it was our turn.
Out of nothing, only 2 years in business, in a nice market where we serve our clients with top quality, service and especially discretion, we won an award as well.
So I decided to ask them for a phone call to discuss more on the options and this is what I got as an answer :
Hi F…..,
I am currently out of the office on Paternity Leave therefore cannot give you a call, however please see below further details;
In terms of the awards process, this is vigorous and time consuming as there is various stages we have to go through such as – voting, nominations, shortlisting, research and then judging. For your interest below I have explained the whole process of how our awards are run;
Initially we launched a voting form live on the BUILD website, we sent a notification to or circulation base to inform then of the live voting form and we also shared this via various social media platforms. Following the voting form being live for over 3 months there is three different ways a nomination can be cast. Firstly, self nomination (which I do not believe was in your case) secondly 3rd part nomination – perhaps a client, peer or another business you have worked with and lastly the host of the award programme (BUILD) can nominate too – usually done when they have previously worked with the client or featured them recently.
Following on from this, I then contacted ALL nominees to inform them of the nomination and ask if they would like to be part of the award programme. The reason we ask first is to make sure we are contacting the correct person, the details we have received are correct and also that the nominated party is happy to take part. Once the nomination is accepted (in your case this was 12 Nov, 2018 12:33 PM) we then began our research phase. Within this stage I did send across a supporting information questionnaire – may I point out, this questionnaire is not mandatory, we fully appreciate you are very busy and would rather give you the opportunity to take part in the award programme than dismiss this because you do not have time to fill in the questionnaire – if you choose to fill the questionnaire in then this is great! If not our in-house research team will also be putting together a case file on your behalf anyway. The in-house research team that we have here is made up of 5 individuals from different backgrounds who have been trained to search and find the details required to build a case file. This case file contains information such as, company history, services, testimonials, articles, reviews, reports etc. Literally any and all information that the research team can find online.
Once the case files have been completed we then begin our judging phase. Our judging panel is compromised of our three directors here at AI Global Media, the head of the research team, the head of the awards team and lastly the head of the editorial department. The reason we use an internal panel is because if nominees decide to send in information via the questionnaire we do not want to share this 3rd party, in addition the judging panel have been doing this for over 8 years for the company and they know our standard and exactly what to look for! Once the judging panel have received all the case files in a category breakdown, then they discuss and deliberate to decide on who they believe deserves and award this year.
As per my initial email below we do offer a free of charge option which you are welcome to go for if you would rather – we are not a pay to play programme and you do not have to purchase a package if you dont want to. The paid for options are there purely as an option and we will NOT force you into any of these options.
I considered this for a while but reading all your comments confirms my first opinion that this is pure scam.
Many thanks for all the info.
Thanks for your article – it has just confirmed my vague suspicions about this being a scam, seconds before almost falling for it! We have recently done an architectural project which had received considerable mainstream media attention, so it sounded very plausible. Their research on their targets seems to be very good. I will be disseminating your info to alert more people.
Raechel says:
The email I received today was from a M[etc] Cashmore. CASHMORE?? Priceless.
I replied that I found his/her name amusing, and that I would be blocking all future emails from them. I also suggested that if they were trying to flatter a business owner, they may want to work a little harder at getting the name of the company correct.
I guess this works, or they wouldn't keep doing it…
Well here we are in Early 2019 and my Company has finally been nominated for an Infrastructure Award. Funnily enough we sell Equipment for Police, Fire and EMS in Canada and have nothing to do with infrastructure. I am somewhat disappointed as we have been in business or 30 years and this is our first nomination. Where have these people been?
Since these awards have absolutely no value or credence it only seems appropriate that we are up for one in a market we do not operate in. I will be happy to pay the top price just as soon as the former Minister of Finance from Cote d' Ivoire sends me my inheritance.
I got a nomination today from them too! I wonder if they knew we are an antique shop. Sustainable, sure at a stretch. Green, sure antiques are preloved and preowned. Building, not so much.
John van der Weide says:
What baffles me is that if you are a "winner" you must have competed. Some people in the UK from build magazine determine who is a winner? It should be simplified and say; those fools who pay for this bogus award with no credibility are "winners".
What do you think of those people who accept and pay for these "awards"? Surely they know its a scam since they have never officially competed with anyone. Since they then put this "award" proudly on their website is an indication of how they too like to fool the readers.
It's amazing what people do to deceive potential clients.
Don Genders says:
Well done for bringing this scam into the public domain. I feel a bit of a fool for initially believing the award, but then started to smell a rat as I read down and saw how much an award would cost us. Found it intriguing how these guys would be able to award us for work in the USA, given their base in the UK. Does the magazine even exist? I have never seen a copy. The sad thing is people must be paying, or they would not keep on doing it. At the second level of almost £500 a shot, they can rake in £50k from 100 award acceptances and I am pretty sure they will have plenty more titles aimed at different industries. Parasitic cretins!
Bekus says:
We received "an architecture award" from them last week however their email sounded very "suspicious" to me so I started to do some research on them and I am glad I found this website.
There are other good architecture firms which accepted their awards, I don't understand why they did it as it does not add credibility in my eyes, indeed it makes it worse. They started to send follow up emails, all template emails, nothing personal, asking for money. Someone needs to stop those guys!
Magnus Oxlund says:
The web is littered with these false beacons of credibility, deployed as an important infrastructure component of the online marketing economy and especially well-suited to aide dishonest businesses.
You will find these efforts anywhere from the book publishing industry who use adulterated bestseller lists, to the web development industry who use phony, pay-to-play awards organizations, to even the academic world which is awash with Potemkin peer-reviewed journals.
It's a brave new world, and it makes you wonder how societies of the pre-internet era managed to exist without a preponderance of dishonest practices.
Zoe B says:
Mid 2019 and our tyre company has been nominated for an award in the 'ever popular Construction & Engineering Awards. Initially launched in 2015, the Construction & Engineering Awards remains a key part of BUILD magazine's awards programme portfolio. Incorporating a variation of enterprises across the construction and engineering disciplines who thrive in this dynamic sector, the awards engage in the process of honouring those whose work may span civil, commercial, energy, residential, industrial and infrastructure projects '. Apparently "receiving a nomination is a huge achievement and one you should be vastly proud of, it shows that your hard work and dedication to this ever-evolving industry has not gone unnoticed!". WE SELL TYRES!!!!!! Dan seems to have changed his name to Jack W – Assistant Awards Executive at BUILD Magazine.
We received that very same one today from the same Jack W, Awards Executive (they give so many that it's a full time job, apparently). It's humorous that it was sent to me, a very random individual who would never be advised of such things. They do now include an unsubscribe link in their email, which keeps them "legal" as spammers in the US.
Now targeting the Real Estate industry. Email states that company has been put forward as a potential nominee and you have to click on either ACCEPT or DECLINE. NO WAY!! Also states that there is no cost in accepting the nomination, nor if you should go on to be successful.
A. D. says:
I'm so happy I found this! An email from BUILD landed in our (seldom used) inbox today and looked sketchy enough that I decided to google them. Our company doesn't even have anything to do with properties at all… and they had the gall to misspell our name as well.
Thank you for writing about this and sharing it!
Jos van de Vliet says:
Hmmm… Interesting information. We just won the award for "best children's woodworking tools manufacturer – Europe". I'd like to think we are the best in the world.
Kat Pearson says:
Glad I found this. I too have had an email from them saying I've been nominated (but not for what category) and asking if I wanted to proceed to their shortlist vetting. It claims there is no cost to being shortlisted (although it would appear that maybe there is one in winning!) I have replied but only to ask why an artist (and one that specialises in cats FFS!) would be nominated for a BUILD award and that it sounds like a scam.
Be interesting to see if they reply :D
no spam says:
Thanks for taking the trouble to write this article–came right up in google, saved us from the hassle of interacting with these scammers.
I received a variation on this from Corporate Vision, I'll include the text in case anyone else is searching for these keywords:
"Voting recently went live for the 2020 Technology Innovator Awards and I am pleased to advise that Corporate Vision has put COMPANY forward as a potential nominee! The Technology Innovator Awards are open to a global audience and all businesses within the sector, from software developers and those who work with computer systems, to robotics, virtual reality and more! Whether your business is just starting out or firmly established, participating in a business award can open doors to getting contracts, finding new supply channels and breaking into new markets. Nominations are only processed once we have your permission. You can action your nomination by simply replying to this email, or you may use the links provided below."
I will say this is a quite creative and well-done scam. It appeals to egos, it's a real company run by professionals in the UK (hence the perfect content and grammar) ,and at the end they do produce a real product. So it's not on the level of a Nigerian prince scam, it's more just a misleading vanity product that tries to sell you a marketing package at the end.
I quit reading about half way down the comments, so maybe someone already said this . Blows my mind that everyone keeps stating this is a "scam" to take advantage of businesses.
No it's not. Anyone with a single brain cell can figure out these are not "legit" rewards. But companies can choose to pay the fee because it gives them something impressive to put on their website and showroom that sounds important.
No different than "best of Houzz". That's another "scam" but it helps companies get a lot of exposure so some choose to pay for it.
Stephen Levrant says:
Thank you very much for this and for hosting the comments and replies. We operate in a very rarefied field and so immediately suspicious. I wish there was someway of stopping this scum, or taking their web site down.
You DO deserve an award for exposing this scam for us all.
Francesco Nesi says:
Many thanks for your valuable analysis and comments.
It looked also to me as a scam since everything is offered "for free" and you always tend to expect where I should pay for…. Did not come to the end of the process, though.
I wish you all the best for your job and activities in London and around.
Best regards from Italy
K Brown says:
Kaven C[edited] and Dan (mentioned above) have emailed us MULTIPLE times notifying us of our nomination in their Architecture Awards 2020. Research on past "winners" for each year on their site is rather funny in and of itself – Apparently everyone's a winner – the list is quite literally endless, having to be sorted by each individual alphabet character and numerical number breakdown to cover all company names. "you're a winner, and you're a winner, and you're a winner!" (I just picture Oprah Winfrey as their spokesperson… Definite laughable scam.
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