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How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top - Yahoo! NewsWith a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Online charlatans typically try to lure people into giving away their personal or ...
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China pays web surfers to find porn: report - Yahoo! NewsChinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday. However, the censors' latest campaign against content that harms public morality appears to have encouraged Internet users ...
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Workers Should Turn Off Visual Alerts, Study Finds - Yahoo! NewsMultitaskers beware: On-screen notification pop-ups and visual alerts designed to increase productivity can actually end up costing you time in the long run, according to a new study. "Email notifications and instant messages all cause a break in focus of the task in hand, even if they are ...
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Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better JournalismApparently, some in the old media have decided that it is, in fact, an either/or game and that the best way to save, if not journalism, at least themselves, is by pointing fingers and calling names. It's a tactic familiar to schoolyard inhabitants everywhere: when all else fails, reach for the ...
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What would George Orwell think of Google Dashboard? | DVICEThanks to Google, most people know who Eric Arthur Blair is. Doesn't ring a bell? You might know him better by his pen name, George Orwell. You know — 1984, Animal Farm? The question is, if he were alive today, what would he think of Google, and its power to spread information — sometimes very ...
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Online Dating Mysteries Revealed (Even the Politically Incorrect Ones) -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisWant to get an online date? Keep your messages short. For men, whites are the most likely to get a response online; Indians the least likely. Among women, Middle Easterners garner the most responses; black women the fewest Those are among the not-always-politically-correct findings unearthed ...
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IEEE Spectrum: British Government: We Want Access to Your Every Phone Call, Email and Web SearchIn England, your home may be your castle, but the government will soon be able to get a rather good idea of what is happening inside it. The British government has decided to go ahead with its plans under what it calls the Intercept Modernisation Programme to force every telecommunication ...
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We should let robots take over the world, expert says | DVICEDr. J. Storrs Hall is an expert on molecular nanotechnology and the head of the Foresight Nanotech Institute (which raises awareness about the very same). That means he spends a lot of time thinking about robots. Or, to be specific, the kind of robots that will take over the world. In a piece ...
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The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writingToday's kids don't just write for grades anymore. They write to shake the world. Moreover, they are writing more than any previous generation, ever, in history. They navigate in a bewildering new arena where writers and their audiences have merged. These are among the startling findings in the ...
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Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo fight Google Books - Aug. 21, 2009Three of Google's biggest online rivals have joined the fight against a court settlement that would give Google the rights to sell millions of books on the Internet. Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) confirmed Friday that it has agreed to join a coalition opposing the Google deal. Amazon (AMZN, ...
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