Google has cracked down on what has been described as the most ambitious attempt to unfairly influence its search rankings. And the offender? J.C. Penney. An online search expert says the retail store benefited from a mass-scale exploitation of one of the key elements of Google’s ranking: inbound links. While the exact algorithm Google uses […]
I didn’t know that people still used Netscape. Or IE. Whatever, Chrome FTW! [Via Imgur]
An employee sacked for making critical comments about a supervisor on Facebook has reached a settlement over the dismissal. But the deal means the case stopped short of a legal ruling on the subject. The case involved Dawnmarie Souza who worked for the ambulance organization American Medial Response of Connecticut. She was suspended and then […]
Publicly accessible posts you make on Twitter are not private. As obvious as that might be, one British woman needed a formal adjudication to get that point across. Sarah Baskerville, a government department employee, had made several posts on Twitter mentioning the fact that she had been hungover while at work, as well as making […]
America’s enemies include those who are “trolling social networks, blogs and forums,” a new Army document claims. But don’t worry: leaving snarky comments won’t get you an early hours visit from the Green Berets. Trolling in this sense refers to foreign operatives reading through such sites for information that could compromise military security. The warning […]
The Internet has finally run out of addresses. Well, sort of. As we noted last year, the issue involves public IP addresses, which points to a physical computer or server that stores a website, rather than the domain names (such as geeksaresexy.net) that most human users type in. The current system, Internet Protocol version 4 […]
Haha, I just love how they used Bob “happy little trees” Ross to depict 4chan. [College Humor]
Amazon is reportedly set to challenge Netflix’s dominance of online movies by offering an all-you-can-stream package. After several rumors along those lines (which were slightly muddied by contrasting rumors that Amazon wanted to buy out Netflix), one Engadget reader has produced a screenshot of what appears to be a case of Amazon letting the cat […]
This video popped up on YouTube last month, but has been making the blog rounds in the past few days. It’s a clip from a 1994 episode of The Today Show, featuring Brian Gumbel trying his best to wrap his head around this “Internet” thing (and that weird little @ symbol). “What, do you write […]
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