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blauwbilgorgel
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The vision of BREIN is not build on killing piracy, it is to secure funding. BREIN gets most of its funding from Hollywood. It is a commercial institution: If they generate lots of anti-piracy press they get more, or easier-to-get funds, if
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I filed a bug report about this 3 months ago. I did completely agree this is not likely to be a serious security issue (only a few indexed emails will contain phonenumbers or private information, even less likely private as Googlebot must h
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Cool to see official Google PHP code (this may be a first?). The code looks well-structured, documented and secure. >Use of the Google Publisher Plugin is governed by Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. This is also a firs
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Iron Man (2008) shows that Iron Man boots with the Mozilla JavaScript documentation. It seems to favor RegExp. Maybe that was shoddy movie research, maybe we should be glad that Iron Man does not run on W3Schools tutorials, maybe Jeff Atwoo
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It was Panama hat. Rap Genius did not pay money, they offered a tweet. In a crude and obvious enough way to be a little scheme-y. Which unfortunately for RG was picked up in the media. "even I was scratching my head to figure out if th
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Yes. According to Google. It is a myth that is years old. Matt Cutts answers: Do AdWords customers get special treatment in organic search results? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aV5DmL_eog If there is evidence that Google
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> If I think of a a lot of things my users would search for and try to create valuable information for them concerning those queries... is that great content or are those doorway pages? Create a useful, information-rich site, and wri
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Google is constantly improving the search results. If factors, such as a low bounce rate and high dwell time, show that a site is popular and useful, why not rank it higher? People tend to think in binary: A site is either spam or no spam.
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>Apart from evidence that seems to be pointing towards this already happening; Please provide this evidence. I am getting a bit tired of this misinformation. Organic search and paid search are silo'd. To say that Google favors adver
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I want to give both Rap Genius and Google the benefit of the doubt. I like to believe that Google checked the link profile again and found a large amount of low-quality links removed. Google would not remove a penalty if the spammy links we
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I am not a lawyer. I believe Google is exempt because it indexes all links it can find. It needs this to operate a general purpose search engine. As soon as Google became a specialized torrent search engine they could be similarly liable. A
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From the letter: The clear purpose and/or design of this application is to encourage, _facilitate_, and/or cause its users to stream and/or download popular sound recordings, the vast majority of which are owned or controlle
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They singled out Abby for writing paid blog posts with targeted links. Who owns Nenad SEO? Nenad and Karine. http://askkarine.com/2013/09/12/how-find-perfect-luxury-holiday-retreat/ "Here are s
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>which is a direct indictment of google and their (as you put it) ineffective search results I think Google has the best quality index of all search engines. There is a Kaggle challenge for Yandex right now where you can optimize the sea
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There certainly is good SEO. Good SEO is often indistinguishable from good accessibility, good marketing, good design, good conversion optimization, good information theory, good metrics. You use sites because they used good SEO. You can fi
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>... 33 'Yes' or 'No' general questions that, when answered correctly, uniquely identified everyone on the planet. I think a lot is possible with this challenge. You could compress over 8 billion yes/no questions
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em or relative font-sizing seems like a good choice. Also see rem [1] which was introduced with CSS3 to combat issues with font size compounding. Use pt for print stylesheets [2]. For a bit of ancient internet history: http://sty
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Can you play .asf files with Mplayer or VLC media player? If so, try: http://msrvideo.vo.msecnd.net/rmcvideos/191304/191304.asf The other two videos can be downloaded. Added .mp4 downloads for completeness: http:
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You are seeing different results than me. This depends among other things on your location (also probably which data center served you the result). The number of pages in index for a large site can even differ depending on the time of day (
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In short: Because the "site:" operator does not rank on popularity or PR. I think it never has, and if it did, it was changed a long time ago. It merely shows you the indexed pages for a site. You can still gather a little info fr
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If a government created Bitcoin wouldn't China be more likely than the US?
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I don't think Google is competing with the black market (on money) or trying to attract the people that already sell to the black market. For many researchers in the world these reward programs ship a substantial amount of money. And e
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Andreas Mueller is one of the core devs of scikit learn. He is active on Kaggle.com too. For more practical ML projects see: https://github.com/amueller
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The "Donald Duck as prior art" case
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>I honestly don't understand how you can live in India and expect shit like this not to happen. People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death, how cold you poss
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Surely this is innovation when applied to a new domain (ranking websites). Also Google never stopped innovating PageRank and other ranking techniques. PG applying Bayes' theorem to e-mail spam was innovative. If we get very loose with
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Yes, good catch. If you want to recreate the Youtube bar, you'd need position fixed. For this faux-progress bar, position absolute works most of the time, because you usually load a new webpage without scrolling down.
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I tried to recreate this effect in raw JavaScript. http://fiddle.jshell.net/zuBDW/2/show/ It doesn't load new content with ajax, nor does it pre-fetch. It just shows a website loading bar. I think this U
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I didn't say they were simply solved through natural language parsing. I said they were better solved (and that combining it with other approaches might help).
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Can an alligator run the hundred-metre hurdles? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjslsKZYXQ8 (Can alligators jump and climb? Yes, they can!) http://www.animalquestions.org/reptiles/alligators/
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