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Twitter Pulls Out of SOPA Blackout
17, Jan 2012Cracks are already beginning to show in the coalition of internet companies protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act – but plans are forging ahead in the White House to have the controversial bill shelved. As we discussed last week, internet organisations are planning a 24 hour blackout to protest an act that will allow copyright [...]
Google Advertising Fake Olympic Tickets & Drugs
10, Jan 2012The BBC are reporting that the world’s favourite search engine has a lucrative sideline in selling knock-off Olympics tickets and mail order cannabis.
the strange clicking noise was yesterday, you’ll be happy to find out that it wasn’t a swarm of crickets outside your house. No, it was every SEO in the world tutting loudly after Google was found to have breached Google’s own rules on buying links.
It looks like lots of people received a brand new smartphone or tablet computer for Christmas, because the last week of December 2011 saw over 1.2 billion mobile apps downloaded in just 7 days.
Google Facing Social Backlash
12, Jan 2012Yesterday, we mentioned that Google have decided to show you social results when you search Google.com. But only from their own social network. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it took the internet about an eighth of a second to decide that this was a stupid idea.