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Recently, very active Digg.com users digging at a fairly rapid pace have been met with an error message advising them to slow down and actually read the story they’re digging.
An image of the message was dugg up to the front page. It reads:
“Whoa there cowboy! Itchy trigger finger? Digging so fast is lame. How about reading some stories instead?”
It’s officially time for tech companies to take cover. Sequoia Capital (a venture capital firm known for backing Apple, Google, and YouTube) and Ron Conway (an angel investor behind Google and PayPal) have advised entities in their portfolios to cut costs and hunker down.
If you insist on staying at your computer while a hurricane’s on its way, Google still won’t say, "I’m sorry, Dave . . . . I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen." A yet-to-be-released tool may, however, try to let you know what’s coming.
About a month ago, Google Image Search started displaying its results a little differently; the makeover yielded a cleaner, but less informative, look. There was a low-level outcry from users, and now things are back to the way they were. That’s all good and well, and an important feature seems to have made it through the shuffle intact.
Google is integrating malware warnings in the search results to warn searchers about risky sites before they go there. In fact, searchers have to work extra hard to get to them.
Results for the phrase "beautiful free screensaver" include a warning with the top result, linking to EliteSavers.com, reading "This site may harm your computer."
After hearing unanimous agreement to the suggestion that Google (finally) contact site publishers when their sites run afoul of Google’s webmaster guidelines, Matt Cutts noted that Google has begun to do just that.
A couple of months ago, there were several cases reported connecting impotence drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra to loss of vision among people who used them.
