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Hotel Deseo, Playa del Carmen
This rather chic boutique hotel is located on the “fifth avenue” of Playa del Carmen at Calle 12. We did not stay here but I was impressed by its inviting entrance so I wandered into it to investigate further. The raw stone steps, lacking a handrail, leads from the street level up towards the building, and
Google’s dominance and vulnerabilities
NY Times online has published an interesting dialogue on this topic between a couple of googlexperts. Goto: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/where-google-goes-from-here-part-1/ According to one of them: Google knows that as good as its search engine and Bing are, both are inefficient. They produce a blizzard of too many answers. A potentially more efficient threat will come from a vertical search, which
The Fifth Avenue of Playa del Carmen
Our resort is located in Playacar which is a gated community at the south end of Playa del Carmen. We took a short cab ride into town one late afternoon as the bars and restaurants were beginning to open for business. The driver dropped us off on the corner of Calle 8 norte and Avenida 5a,
Riviera Maya Scam #1
Here is our first tale for the would-be visitor of Cancun and the Riviera Maya. Unlike our Iceland trip earlier this summer, we booked an all-inclusive package so that we don’t have to deal with the details. Although this is our first visit to Riviera Maya, we thought this is a well-trodden tourist area, so we
