They probably mean that a large percentage of internet services are hosted on US-based servers. As a regular AWS/Azure customer, the regions in which I tend to see provisioning issues makes this seem right, though I'd love to see some numbers.
For various reasons the internet maps much closer to GDP than Population. But, largely it’s a case of smaller economies driving less advertising dollars which supports fewer websites. So it’s also weighted more to consumer spending than raw GDP.
I realized I was spending a whole bunch of time tracking down web references for my grad school assignments (and forgetting most of them) so I made something super simple that generated them from my bookmarks:
I've started using stringify with IFTTT to get a lot of my home automation working now.
I'd use stringify exclusively but IFTTT has a lot more integrations, so I end up using IFTTT as both a trigger and action in stringify. Ugly, but it works.
You're right, but the point here is that positional queries are boolean queries plus positions. For example, document that match 'a NEAR b' are a subset of documents matching 'a AND b'. So if 'a AND b' has no matches, there is no need to execute the more expensive 'a NEAR b'.
