An upgrade to the algorithm used by Google to rank website relevance to a users query is being rolled out today Google is today rolling out a key upgrade to the algorithm powering its search engine which is based on \”Australian-made\” technology originally developed by a PhD student at the University of New South Wales. […]
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Owen Thor Walker, a 19 year old, who was wanted by the FBI for his part in leading the group the A-Team has been employed by Telstraclear for nearly a year to provide information for seminars. Telstraclear made an interesting comment when they said: He said it was not the equivalent of hiring a bank
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Bugger I missed it, yesterday was Talk Like William Shatner Day Here is a great video of an impersonator giving lessons. Very Funny. So….I\’ll have to….remember………it next…..year. I\’m Declaring 3/22 \”International Talk Like William Shatner Day\”!
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While these are not software problems (mainly because my attempts to downloaded were thwarted) these show a serious lack of foresight on the behalf of the behemoth. Problem 1 – If you run Firefox, you can download it I went to the download site, chose my country and operating system and waited for the download
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Here is a video from WebProNews about the new Google Friend Connect API More WebProNews Videos With this, it allows you to integrate many social style interactions (Comments, votes etc) into your site. Google have created some Open Source plugins for WordPress, Drupal and PHPBB. I will look at adding the WordPress plugin here and
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In an interesting use of the internet, a NZ court has allowed the serving of court papers via a Facebook profile. It follows a similar Australian ruling You can read more about it here But this shows how the internet can be used as a great communication medium. So be careful when you accept that
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When Google bought DoubleClick last year, there were plenty of concerns from privacy advocates about what this would mean. Well this new initiative seems to be the logical conclusion. Google is now using DoubleClick cookies to track users browsing habits and serve up ads relating to that browsing history. From a web developers point of
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Blogging is rife, every one is doing it, I advise my clients to do it, you should do it (if you are, well done) But the majority of us bloggers do not have any formal training. some blogs I read are written very badly, but the content saves them. So what value to do blogs
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Just as a follow-up from the previous post, Symantec have released the removal instructions for W32.Downadup.C You can find them here The removal instructions are part automated using the Antivirus software, but also require the editing of the PC\’s registry and the usual system restore issues. It is the registry edits that mean these instructions
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I don\’t cover viruses here much, but after reading about this in a few places a few things stood out. This is an article from PCWorld that describes a notification from Symantec. Downadup is a virus that execute instructions from an infected machine. Apparently, the new variant is more hardened against anti virus tools (looks
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