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Unit 12: Recordset Object

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Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
13. A Record object has two special fields that can be indexed with …………………… constants.
14. During……………………, the rowset is unpacked into a newly created Recordset object,
which also sets its properties to the default values.
15. Each Field object corresponds to a …………………… in the Recordset.

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Caselet Google Runs ‘A Little Bit Like a University’

f Google has underwear, who will buy it? This was one of the questions that Sergey
Brin posed to students of an Israeli high school in 2003. “Hands shot up,” writes David
IA. Vise in
The Google Story
, from Macmillan (www.panmacmillan.com) .

To Brin and Larry Page, the Google guys, named recently ‘Men of the Year’ by
Financial Times
, the project was ‘one of the less technical’ ones.
To check, you may use Google to briefly search for the brief, and see a March 2005 posting
on http://blog.searchenginewatch.com confirming thus: “UnderGoos (naturally in beta)
offers a full-line of Google-branded undergarments.” Price, however, is £0.00
on www.google-store.com. ”A project that is closer to our hearts is translation,” Brin told
the students.
The book takes one ‘inside the hottest business, media and technology success of our
time,’ to know how Google, a start-up investment of $1 million, became a market value of
$40 billion, all by word of mouth.
“With its colourful, childlike logo set against a background of pure white, Google’s magical
ability to produce speedy, relevant responses to queries hundreds of millions of times
daily has changed the way people find information and stay abreast of news,” writes Vise
in the introduction.
Ten years ago, search was ‘not pretty,’ is how Rajeev Motwani, “a 30-year old professor
who had been Sergey’s advisor since his arrival at Stanford in 1993", found.
Vise writes about how Motwani had tested a search engine called Inktomi after it was
developed at Berkeley, where he had received his Ph.D.
“He typed in `Inktomi’ to see what would happen. Sure enough, said Motwani, `It wasn’t
there. It couldn’t find itself.” Not so with Google, which shows 800,000,000 results for itself
in 0.17 seconds.
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