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27 Great Green and Eco-Friendly Search Engines view story
1 vote- Submitted by onreact.com
- about 10 hours ago
- (http://webecoist.com/2008/08/20/l...)
- Became popular 39 minutes ago
The following green search engines are divided into those that search the green web and those that simply search the internet at large but also otherwise contribute to the green cause in some way.
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'Malvertizement' epidemic visits Newsweek.com view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008...)
- Became popular about 10 hours ago
Newsweek.com is one of several high-profile websites suspected of running rogue banner advertisements that try to trick visitors into installing fraudulent anti-malware programs, security researchers warn.
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Googlephone security team seeks bug hunters view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008...)
- Became popular 1 day ago
Google's Android security team has appealed to bug hunters to help it iron out flaws in the platform.
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YouTube user sues Google for his slice of the traffic view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 5 days ago
- (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/p...)
- Became popular 4 days ago
Benjamin Legeri, a disgruntled YouTube user, is suing Google and various employees for not letting him into YouTube's revenue-sharing program.
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Google Insights points out websites only used by Silicon Valley nerds view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 6 days ago
- (http://andrewchen.typepad.com/and...)
- Became popular 4 days ago
From Google Insights - Digg is evenly used throughout the US, but there's a big hole in Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming. MySpace is mainstream and more in California, Florida, and Vegas. Techrunch is California based ...
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Who Wants What? Google Insight on Spam, Pirated Software and Other Fun Stuff view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 6 days ago
- (http://www.worldchanging.com/arch...)
- Became popular 5 days ago
Google Insights for Search is good fun.
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CAPTCHAs work—for digitizing old, damaged texts, manuscripts view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 6 days ago
- (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/p...)
- Became popular 5 days ago
The digitalization of text aims at preserving the written word in an archive that can be kept safe. However, the works that are most in need of preservation are likely to already be damaged. A successful way to identify the words is to turn to CAPTCHAs.
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Google search crushing Microsoft, Yahoo view story
3 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 6 days ago
- (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/p...)
- Became popular 6 days ago
Despite bribing users to give Live Search a try and seeing Ballmer proclaim that Redmond is now all about advertisers, Microsoft has seen its search market share fall over the past 18 months. Yahoo is seeing a similar decline.
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reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 7 days ago
- (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/con...)
- Became popular 6 days ago
CAPTCHAs can channel human effort into a useful purpose: helping to digitize old printed material by asking users to decipher scanned words from books that OCR fails. This method can transcribe text with word accuracy over 99%.
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ISP’s New Music Service Will Pay Labels For ‘Illegal’ Downloads view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 7 days ago
- (http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entr...)
- Became popular 6 days ago
One of the UK’s top ISPs is preparing to launch an unlimited music service that would see it pay record labels for songs illegally downloaded by its customers.

