http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=922
A (4 year old) patent granted to Google today explores Web spam and the manipulation of documents and links on the Web. It describes how the rankings of pages may be influenced if they are identified as manipulative.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9741?rss=read
Black Pudding is fantastic, but nine is extreme.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140060-pg,1/article.html
A Massachusetts company has sued the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement, charging the project with stealing its designs for a multilingual keyboard.
Lagos Analysis Corp., or Lancor, filed the lawsuit Thursday in the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in Nigeria, where the company owns a patent for a four shift-key keyboard, said Ad Oyegbola, Lancor’s CEO.
OLPC illegally reverse-engineered the company’s patented keyboard, which, with its four-shift keys, allows computers to better handle multiple languages, Oyegbola said. Lancor wants the Nigerian court to award “substantial” damages and issue a permanent injunction to prevent OLPC from manufacturing and selling its XO laptop.
Oyegbola said he hopes Lancor can reach a settlement with OLPC before the Nigerian court issues an injunction. OLPC could have “sought a license and gotten it for a minimal fee,” he said. “We’re hoping … they can come to their senses, and we sit down and come to a reasonable settlement.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7118452.stm
A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted.
The booby-trapped websites came up in search results for search terms such as “Christmas gifts” and “hospice”.
Windows users falling for the trick risked having their machine hijacked and personal information plundered.
The criminals poisoned search results using thousands of domains set up to convince search index software they were serious sources of information.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/11/17/bc.bba.yankees.rodriguez.ap/index.html
From the page: “Warren Buffett advised Alex Rodriguez to approach the New York Yankees and go around agent Scott Boras, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
The newspaper cited a person familiar with the matter, whom it did not identify.
“A-Rod really loves being a Yankee,” Buffett was quoted as saying. He wouldn’t comment on the substance of any discussions with the player.”
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/hot.topics
From the page: “Finding popular topics to write about on your website or blog has never been easier thanks to the Hot Topics tool. Enter a keyword related to your site and 7 pages of inspiration open up. “
http://premiershipbetting.betfair.com/Fulham_FC.php
From the page: The female can often sense the male losing interest, and will go to desperate lengths to reignite the spark. The wife asked if there was anything I’d like her to do differently in the bedroom; I probably shouldn’t have responded with: “Tidy it.”
http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=7415686
Dr. Robert Cade, who invented the sports drink Gatorade and launched a multibillion-dollar industry that the beverage continues to dominate, died Tuesday of kidney failure. He was 80.
http://www.weblogcartoons.com/cartoons/procrastination.gif
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