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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.
Mike / Techdirt:
MySpace And GoDaddy Shut Down Huge Archive Of Security Mailing Lists — from the silly-companies dept — Rich Kulawiec writes in to point out that Seclists.org, a site that archives various security-related discussion email lists (and run by Fyodor, author of nmap, and generally …
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?, The Next Net, PaidContent and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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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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Don Dodge on The Next …, Scobleizer, Vecosys, Search Engine Land and Microsoft News Tracker
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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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Amazon Quietly Launches Amapedia, a Wikipedia For Products
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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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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 …
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.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
New bill proposes analog TV warning — Analog-only television sets may soon be required to carry a new warning label if a new bill passes the House of Representatives, but it won't be to warn about violent, adult, or controversial TV content. US Representatives Joe Barton (R-Texas) …
Gizmodo:
Rumor Smashed: iPhone Will NOT Come With 1.5 Years of Free Service — This morning, a reputable investment site made mention that AT&T plans to give away 18 months of service for free with every iPhone. It's not important who said this cough*thestreet.com*cough, but a Cingular rep just told me that the rumors are simply not true:
Ryan Carter / Download Squad:
AlZip unzips it al, um, all — I hate crippleware. I hate nag-ware, and all kinds of related vermin from the netherworld. Among them, WinZip for years has bugged the snot out of users instead of just providing a good product for free like the cool kids.
Gabriel Stricker / Google:
A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube — In November, Google officially closed its acquisition of YouTube, and since then we've received a number of questions about what will happen next. The summary is that Google Video and YouTube will continue to play to their respective strengths.
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