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Matt Cutts / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
A quick word about Googlebombs — Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini — We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Kills Miserable Failure & Other Google Bombs — After just over two years, Google has finally defused the "Google Bomb" that has returned the official George W. Bush biography at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn't a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush.
seclists.org:
Seclists.Org shut down by Myspace and GoDaddy — Many of you reported that our SecLists.Org security mailing list — archive was down most of yesterday (Wed), and all you really need to — know is that we're back up and running! But I'm going into rant mode — anyway in case you care for the details.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
GoDaddy pulls security site after MySpace complaints — update A popular computer security Web site was abruptly yanked offline this week by MySpace.com and GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, raising questions about free speech and Internet governance.
Reuters:
AACS confirms hacks on high-definition DVD players — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A consortium of movie studios and technology companies backing the encryption system for high-definition DVDs on Thursday confirmed that hackers have stolen "title keys" and used them to decrypt high-definition DVDs through flaws in DVD player software.
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BBC:
Hi-def DVD security is bypassed — The encryption on high-definition DVDs has been bypassed, the consortium backing the copy protection system on discs has confirmed. — At the end of last year a hacker claimed he had defeated the protection on a number of HD-DVD titles, leading to fears the entire system was broken.
Rcade / Workbench:
Amapedia: The Conspicuous Consumption Community Wiki — While browsing Amazon.Com this evening I noticed a reference to Amapedia, a collaborative wiki the company describes as a "community for sharing information about the products you like the most." — The site's newly launched …
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Inside Google Book Search:
Books: Mapped — One of the first things I did upon moving to New York City was to buy some books about this great metropolis: guide books, historical accounts, collections of stories from famous reporters. My excitement grew with each word I read. However, being unfamiliar with the streets …
Mark Hachman / ExtremeTech:
Update: At Least 25 Million Americans Pirate Movies — Roughly 25 million Americans — or 18 percent of the U.S. online population — have illegally downloaded a full-length movie, a study released Wednesday asserts. — In a study of 2,600 Americans polled via telephone and online …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Windows Vista vs. Mac OSX, the two-hour definitive word — I remember having great discussions about Microsoft vs. Apple back in the 1980s and 1990s. We all survived those years without too many hurt feelings. — So, I thought it'd be fun to do it again in 2007 now that Microsoft is shipping Windows Vista.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Explay's nanoprojector gets a little face time — While we were able to get a little hands-on time with Microvision's own minuscule projector earlier this month at CES, the folks over at TFOT were able to snag some face time with Explay's ridiculously small nanoprojector.
Christy Salcido / Apple:
Starbucks Hear Music Now on the iTunes Store — Starbucks Entertainment Area on iTunes to Feature New & Exclusive Hear Music Releases in Addition to Critically Acclaimed Catalog Titles — SEATTLE, Washington and CUPERTINO, California —October 5, 2006 — Starbucks and Apple® today announced …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue — Quarter marks the successful business launches of Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Exchange Server 2007 — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $12.54 billion for the quarter ended December 31 …
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Between the Lines, Seeking Alpha, Got Ads?, Business 2.0 Beta, The Next Net, PaidContent and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Word Zero-Day Attack Discovered — Microsoft's security response team has launched an investigation into reports of a zero-day attack against a previously unknown vulnerability affecting its ever-present Microsoft Word program. — The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said it's aware of …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft 'not happy' with search results — Microsoft is continuing to lose market share in the search business to industry rival Google, something the software maker's financial chief said Thursday he is "not happy" about. — And things aren't expected to turn around any time soon.
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Scobleizer, Don Dodge on The Next …, Vecosys, Search Engine Land and Microsoft News Tracker
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ex-Yahoo Exec now Pageflakes CEO — Dan Cohen, till very recently Head of My Yahoo business for Sunnyvale, California-based web media and search company, has joined personalized web page start-up Pageflakes as its chief executive officer, according to our sources.
Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Off to a great start — Panama: A country, a canal, or the next generation of Yahoo!'s search marketing? — Now that I've had a chance to catch my breath after announcing our quarterly earnings this week, I thought I'd reflect on something that I think is probably the most important news you've heard from us in a long time.
