February 2011
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Google weeds out "Content Farms" →
Finally Google accepts the problem and gets it going for what it takes to improve search. This and the Personal search result blocker extension released last fortnight are part of the right steps in the direction.
We can’t make a major improvement without affecting rankings for many sites. It has to be that some sites will go up and some will go down. Google depends on the high-quality content...
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Google and Crowdsourcing
Are there sites you don’t want to see in Google’s results? Use our new @googlechrome extension to block them http://goo.gl/P9AZt
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A Googler google
The above tweet by @google has a lot to say about the fact that Google itself realises that it’s algorithms might be promoting content house sites like About.com and Ehow.com in many common search...
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Watch‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining...
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