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Pheedo Reaches Into RSS Analytics
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Cutts Nips Net Neutrality Conspiracy Theory
Be careful with Google conspiracy accusations; Matt Cutts might make an example of you. After being accused of blocking anti-Net Neutrality pages on the Progress and Freedom Foundation site, Cutts gloats over data to the contrary on his blog. Brett Glass, via Dan Farber's Interesting People mailing list, discovered only pages on PFF.org's website pertaining to Network Neutrality were flagged by Google as hosting malware.…
Study Urges Legalizing Online Gambling
The U.S. and Canada should legalize and control online gambling to reduce negative effects, because gamblers play more aggressively online than they do in casinos, according to a joint study by the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.The study found that even though online gambling is illegal in the U.S. and Canada it is still easy for…
Twitter Buys Summize For $15 Million
The not-so-quiet rumors circulating last week about Twitter buying social search engine Summize are no longer rumors but are confirmed. Twitter founder Biz Stone confirmed it on his blog today, and one report has the deal valued at $15 million in cash and stock. Two surprises there: 1. $15 million is exactly what Twitter just secured in its latest round of financing. 2. Twitter has…
Google Penalizes Newsday.com For Selling Links
According to Search Engine Roundtable, a popular media website Newsday.com, has been hit hard in terms of PageRank, as Google has specified that the website in question has been penalized for selling links that pass PageRank and for violating
Google Presents Seven Cities In 3D
Here's a bit of news that belongs in some strange borderland between cutting-edge technology and the plot of a "Corner Gas" episode: seven local governments have worked with Google to publish 3D models of their cities.
