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Archive for September, 2011
A controversial US presidential hopeful has opened a debate on what Google should or shouldn’t feature in their search results, after SEO-savvy protesters have managed to take an ‘alternative’ definition of his surname to the top spot. The politician in question is Republican senator Rick Santorum, who made headlines in 2003 by saying that consensual [...]
Steam-Powered Computer Could Be a Reality
22, Sep 2011When Charles Babbage set out his designs for his mechanical Analytical Engine in 1837, he couldn’t have imagined that it would take nearly 200 years for his plans to become a reality. Or that it would have been obsolete by the time it was first turned on. Babbage only managed to complete a handful of [...]
Google Should Be Fighting Pirates – Jeremy Hunt
14, Sep 2011Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, last in the news for having his name unfortunately mispronounced on the radio, will declare today that it’s up to Google to crack down on online piracy and copyright infringement. Speaking later today, in front of a gathering of media executives at the eWeek conference, Mr Hunt is expected to demand [...]
Are Your Spelling Mistakes Leaving You at Risk?
13, Sep 2011How many emails do you send every day? A handful? A dozen? More? Over 90% of UK internet users regularly send emails – but they don’t always check to see if they’ve spelt the address correctly. And an incorrect email address can spell trouble for the sender… Security researchers created a number of “doppelganger” domains, [...]
What’s “even more evil than Satan himself”? If you were to ask Bing over the weekend, you’d be told that the answer is “10^100″. Or, in plain English, a Googol. Now you don’t need to be a codebreaking genius that Bing might not mean the number 10^100 is in fact the new number of the [...]
The ICM Registry caused a bit of a stir earlier this year, when it announced the launch of the new adult content-focused .xxx domains. As of today, you can now register your very own .xxx domain – regardless of whether or not you’re peddling smut to the online masses. Brands and companies that don’t want [...]
Google to Feature Celebrity Endorsements From Kim Kardashian, Etc
20, Sep 2011Will you be more likely to click on a Google result if a ‘celebrity‘ such as Kim Kardashian (pictured) tells you too? Unfortunately, Google thinks that you are. Christian Oestlien, head of social advertising, has announced that the search giant is about to tell you what celebrities like – so that you don’t have to [...]