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 [...]

Benjamin Mako Hill: Wikireaders

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November 25th, 2009 by dondavanzo


My friend Sean from OpenMoko recently gave me one of OM’s new WikiReaders. It’s essentially a touchscreen-based device dedicated to displaying Wikipedia articles offline. And while I’ll never forgive the thing for not having an Edit button, I’ve got to admit the device is pretty cool. Not only does it make it possible to bring WP to a bunch of [...]

Better Universal Search at Google Korea

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October 11th, 2009 by dondavanzo


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Google Korea uses an interesting layout for their search results pages. In this layout, thumbnails of images and video clips related to a search query are shown in the right sidebar of the search results page and, unlike the regular version of Universal Search, these are not mixed with the listing of regular web pages. I find this layout more [...]