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Yahoo Gives Hadoop A Big Hug
Yahoo's done one impressive thing after another since Microsoft threatened to acquire it, and now, in a step that should make the…
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Using Google Can Become A Habit
My wife Jill was the victim of another drive-by “why-ing” — and I, of course, was the perpetrator. There’s a small specialty grocery store where we live that Jill visits every week or two. And almost every time, she complains about the experience. Outdated stock is repackaged. Food is rancid. The staff is surly. But she keeps buying there. After listening to another long-winded vent,…
Fighting Google’s Paid Link Stance With Robots.txt
Andy Beard has hit upon a compromise between removing text links from his site and being summarily punished by Google for selling them.
Google News Slow To Reinstate UN Critic
Inner City Press, a one-man full-time operation with volunteer contributors, should be back on Google News following an anonymous complaint that caused it to be delisted.
Wikipedia Won’t Remove Muhammad Images
Wikipedia is refusing to remove images of the prophet of Islam's Muhammad despite hundreds of thousands of requests.In some Muslim traditions, it is considered offensive to depict the prophet for fear the image would become an object of idol worship. Wikipedia argues that it is not offensive in all traditions, and that they will not bow to pressure to remove the images.
U.K. Online Properties Attract Global Traffic
A recent study from comScore on the global traffic to online properties in the U.K. found that online traffic coming from outside the U.K. outnumbered the domestic visitors to the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times and The Daily Mail.
