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What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question – in all its shades of meaning – can unlock the most intractable riddles of both business and culture. And for the past few years, that's exactly what Google has been doing. Jumping into the game long after Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and other pioneers, Google offered a radical new approach to search, redefined the idea of viral marketing, survived the dotcom crash, and pulled off the largest and most talked about initial public offering in the history of Silicon Valley.

This book explores the meta-heuristics approach called tabu search, which is dramatically changing our ability to solve a host of problems that stretch over the realms of resource planning, telecommunications, VLSI design, financial analysis, scheduling, space planning, energy distribution, molecular engineering, logistics, pattern classification, flexible manufacturing, waste management, mineral exploration, biomedical analysis, environmental conservation and scores of other problems

"…and the beat goes on!" These words are not only the title of the legendary debut album put out by these ultimate raver idols, for Scooter themselves they have become words to live by. And along with the beat, the megasellers go on and on as well. It all sounds like a dream, or a fairytale for the nineties, but this is reality.
Scooter is a German techno group. Among their more well-known hits are "RAMP! (The Logical Song)", "Hyper Hyper", "Fire!", "How Much Is The Fish?", "Nessaja", "Weekend!" and "Hello! (Good to be Back)". They have become one of the world's most successful dance-techno bands.