pmadden

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by pmadden 15y ago
FWIW, I just submitted a removal request via GWT for a page on my own site, and the request was accepted without complaint and is pending. Maybe Google turned the tool back on already. I tried a request for a page on my wife's site, via the
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by pmadden 15y ago
re: Google's capacity to change things, that's exactly what I thought should trigger more skepticism: Not only has no one repeated the experiment -- no one ever can. Now it's history, and that can get murky. But thank you for the link -- an
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by pmadden 15y ago
I'll admit that the quotes around "screenshots" exposed a bias (though I privately considered "honest mistake" a real contender), so I'll take my lumps. But I stand by my main point: I don't see any REASON to BELIEVE.* The only thing separa
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by pmadden 15y ago
Also, what is the link you supplied supposed to show? To me, it's like someone who, hearing the accuracy of Genesis' creation story challenged due to lack of supporting evidence, replies, "Yes, but Exodus says the same thing." It's the same
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by pmadden 15y ago
Was it the "I'm not saying it's fake" part that made it seem to you that I seem to be accusing him of faking? My point is that the evidence is wholly insufficient. It was the first post on a new blog (i.e. no reputation), no way to reproduc
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by pmadden 15y ago
How does the article deliver? I don't see, in the comments on his blog or here, any evidence that this has been independently reproduced. He's got a description, and some "screenshots" and, oh, Google seems to already have fixed it. How...
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by pmadden 15y ago
They just told me in an email, and I just canceled my subscription. I didn't appreciate the way they did it: No explanation of why the increase is necessary, plus idiocy like: "Your price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a mon
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by pmadden 15y ago
The EFF diffs some, e.g. http://www.tosback.org/diff.php?vid=1736 . That one actually suggests an improvement: You have to strain your eyes to find the difference. In other pairs, the differences stand out better.