Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 29th, 2009
There is now an Israeli search engine - Koogle, developed for Jewish searchers that keeps kosher - well it shuts down on the Sabbath.
USAToday reported: "In their mission statement, Koogle administrators said the site's goal is to "filter the appropriate information from different websites that are relevant to our target ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Seems the emails from the Argentine mistress of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford were distributed by a hacker, or so Sanford's mistress claims according to a report by FoxNews.
The emails were obtained by The State - the South Carolina newspaper - in December, the Huffington Post reported. The State said ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Last weekend Gmail increased the size of allowable attachments from 20 MG to 25 MG. One has to wonder if this was done mainly to garner more people to sign up for Google email service since they suggest changing from any service that will not accept attachments of that size.
"With ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
During the Yahoo stockholders meeting which included yodelers, Regis Phelbin and a statement from CEO Carol Bartz "If I see another Britney Spears thing, I'm gonna throw up.", Michael Jackson was driving a record number of visitors to the site.
Maybe the "fluff-o-metter" Bartz said she had in store for the ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Twitter may have broke the story, but the increase in search traffic at Google Thursday was first seen as a malware attack Google admitted.
The Google News site had to shut down briefly leaving a message that read: "We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Aaron Wall, author and founder of the SEOBook website, called out Google today for accepting PPC ads promoting bogus Google money making schemes.
"Google gives webmasters this guideline "Your site's reputation can be affected by who you link to." Why shouldn't it apply to Google as well?
As long as Google has ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Seems the Chinese government used the "Great Firewall" to block Google, YouTube and Gmail for a couple of days this week, Fox News reported.
Seems access to Google both in English and Chinese was blocked for part of Wednesday and Thursday in parts of China. Fox News stated, "The outages occurred ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
There's a bunch of news coming from YouTube in the past couple of days. First up, they're giving channels a makeover. Users can switch their channels over on their own now, but by July 15th all channels will be switched to the new look.
The University of Phoenix has already ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
It's been another week of mega Google updates. Several have been noteworthy-enough to get their own post. The leftovers are included below:
Google Android has launched 1.5 NDK, Release 1.
Meanwhile, Google Android phones are being announced and rumored for multiple carriers.
Google Maps now offers a "What's Here?" feature if you right-click ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
This morning, Amazon Associates in North Carolina are awakening to some bitter news. As of today, their accounts are officially closed. This is anticipation - yes, anticipation, not the actual passage - of a state budget that includes a provision requiring companies with affiliate programs to pay an internet sales ...
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