Google Declares Jihad On Blog Link Farms

A major Google page rank update has punished large scale blog link farms and similar sites indulging in heavy cross linking by dramatically cutting their Google page rank scores.

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Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

We give Google's front-running applications a lot of ink (or pixels, as it were), and the rest a passing mention in the fast-flowing river of news. Today's top 10 pays homage to the little brother and sister Google products that you forgot all about.

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First imitate, then innovate

First imitate, then innovate! Shouldn’t we always try to come up with new ideas, create new things, and build new stuff? The answer to that is yes and no.

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HIV Is Spread Most By People With Medium Levels Of HIV In Blood, Says Study

People with medium levels of HIV in their blood are likely to contribute most to the spread of the virus, according to new research. The study found that those with a high viral load are the most infectious group, but have only limited time to infect others, because they generally progress to AIDS quite quickly.

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The Working Dead : People Who Waste Their Lives Away - One Day at a Time

My former co-worker took personal calls on his cell phone while at work. His conversations always started the same way:Co-worker: Sup?Caller: Sup. What ya doin’?Co-worker: Nothing. Working.Both answers were accurate. That’s because at this job, doing nothing was still considered “work” if you were on the clock.

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Ill-informed Fox anchors spread fears of al Qaeda link to California fires

Did al Qaeda start the California wildfires? As more than a million people escaped the flames, Fox News anchors couldn't help speculating about a terrorism link to the blazes ravaging southern California. "How bad can Fox journalism get?"

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