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Google censors cougarlife.com

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May 23rd, 2010 by Frances Locke

America’s puritanical values strike again! From Steve Jobs using the whole “think-of-the-children” routine, to now Google and their apparent problems with older woman and younger men (what would Ashton Kutcher say?) - Google has banned so-called “cougar” dating sites from advertising through its network, which is bad enough. Meanwhile it doesn’t seem to have the same problem with ads where older men [...]

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Published by Frances Locke on May 23, 2010 under Google,Google Buzz,Google News | Post your comment now

Google Inc & Topeka Kansas switch Names – Google re-branding to Topeka

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April 1st, 2010 by dondavanzo

Many of you may have noticed that today Google Inc has announced they will be changing their name to Topeka in light of Topeka Kansas changing the name of the city to “City of Google” as part of a nation wide competition started by Google, in which the winning city will receive High speed fiber optic internet to every residence. “We’re planning to build [...]

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Published by dondavanzo on Apr 1, 2010 under Computers,Google,Google April Fools,Google Buzz,Google News,Google Pranks | Post your comment now

Sorry Google; The internet does not equal democracy

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March 31st, 2010 by Frances Locke

“Imagine if the internet took hold in China,” George W Bush said in 1999, “Imagine how freedom would spread.” It turns out he was wrong about that one. Google, after four years of running its search engine in China, relocated to Hong Kong last week. On the mainland, Google had been censoring its search results to in accordance with Communist Party restrictions. [...]

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Published by Frances Locke on Mar 31, 2010 under Google Buzz,Internet Service,Social Networking | Post your comment now

Chinese Government Issues a Warning to Google

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March 12th, 2010 by Frances Locke

The Chinese government has issued a warning to Google this week. Speaking to reporters at the National People’s Congress on Friday, the Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said he hopes Google will respect China’s rules and regulations. But, according to several press reports, he cautioned the company: “If you insist on taking this action that violates [...]

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Published by Frances Locke on Mar 12, 2010 under Computers | Post your comment now

How does Adware Work?

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December 11th, 2009 by dondavanzo

Adware is software which generates advertisements such as pop-up windows or hotlinks on the Web pages that are not part of that particular page’s code. Adware adds links to your favourite site and you’re desktop. It often changes your home page and also your search engine to sites that earn income from various advertisers that which are dependent on. These [...]

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