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As Internet advertising is increasingly precisely targeted to meet consumers’ presumed desires, the trick for advertisers is to sniff out people’s interests and needs without riling their privacy defenses. Silicon Valley startup NebuAd Inc. believes it…
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Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0
Once upon a time the words Social and Internet weren’t close friends. Oh sure, there was IRC, and you could send email to people, and if you had any friends, they might send email back. But, that was it. Not very social.
Social bookmarking? Forget about it. Unless you meant creating [...]

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware
We can’t count the number of times we’ve accidentally closed a web browser, word processor, or other application without saving our data first. Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t have an undo key. But thanks to GoneIn60s, you can add a slowdo button. (Yes, we’re going to trademark slowdo, you can’t have it).
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Google continues to beat the drum about passing PageRank through paid links as Matt Cutts weighed in on the topic with another request that webmasters use the ‘nofollow’ attribute for them.
Though plenty of places in the Northern Hemisphere shiver in chilly temperatures, webmasters will continue radiating heat after the latest double-barreled barrage from Google’s loquacious [...]

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Google will bid in the upcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, the company announced this morning. Run by the Federal Communications Commission, the auction is scheduled to begin on January 24, and could run until March.
The biggest players in the industry are expected to bid aggressively for spectrum, which because of the federal requirement that television [...]

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If you’ve ever thought, “Hey, I could give better search results than that,” here’s your chance: one of Google’s experiments is allowing users to vote sites up (or off) results pages. They can also add completely new sites to the list.
Users’ work will, at this point, only be reflected when they’re logged into their [...]

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A Danish company provided the daily allowance of raised eyebrows for its claim of offering undetectable cloaking techniques.

As the cliché goes on Fark, someone didn’t think their cunning plan all the way through.
Google’s Matt Cutts told a new tale of “undetectable webspam” being spun in Denmark. No more languishing in the dregs of search results, [...]

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Mom always said, “Put your best foot forward.” It’s valuable advice, because often how you appear on a first meeting sends subtle signals about you and can influence what happens next. We should also be concerned the same way with how we appear, what information is presented about us, in the search results. [...]

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A 22 percent increase in sales from last year’s day after Thanksgiving put more money in the pockets of online retailers this year.
Online research firm comScore saw a whole lot of money flowing to non-travel retailers from US customers on the traditional kickoff to holiday shopping season.
Shoppers opted for the world of dot-coms to the [...]

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Filed under: Weekend Review
If you’ve spent the last week looking up good recipes for leftover turkey, here are a few of the yummy stories you may have missed on Download Squad.
Google removes thousands of malware sites
Google has removed more than 40,000 sites from its index. This is a good thing, because many of those sites [...]

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