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Google’s Public Policy Blog has been home to discussions about censorship, net neutrality, and national security. Now it’s promoting Carhenge, Nebraska’s “whimsical…
According to some people, global warming may have catastrophic effects on the world around us. But in the meantime, it’s doing Wikipedia a lot of good - the site is receiving tons of traffic from that term.
There've been some fine lines walked lately by Google's Webspam team. Not too long ago, it was paid links reporting, and now the line is between startpages and doorway pages. The definitions are quite similar, but Google says it's all about intent, which makes the argument reminiscent of the art versus indecency squabbles of the past.
There are a number of reasons that Baidu has beaten Google (in terms of Chinese market share), but one of them involves entertainment-related queries; the Chinese company’s MP3 search function is wildly popular. And that function will soon get better, as Baidu has announced a partnership with Rock Music Group.
Google Book Search has, up until now, provided images of text; these were fine for reading, but not so great for anything else. So the service is taking a step forward and offering true “text layers” of many of its out-of-copyright books.
Candidates for the 2008 Presidential election have been vying for the attention of Internet users, with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney gaining the most.
