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America's mysterious space plane to land after a year in orbit(dailymail.co.uk)
7 points by zone411 14y ago|0 comments
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Many .gov domains fail to resolve without www.(fda.gov)
2 points by zone411 14y ago|1 comments
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Two Plus Two Forums Hacked(twoplustwo.com)
4 points by zone411 15y ago|2 comments
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Senate Passes Start-Ups Bill, With Amendments(nytimes.com)
8 points by zone411 15y ago|0 comments
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by zone411 15y ago
No, you are hugely underestimating variance in blackjack and the amount of hands needed to approach statistical significance. If you do the math, you should see that after 14,000 hands with 0.25% house edge, the chance of a gain is around 4
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by zone411 15y ago
This change also needs to penalize pages with full screen ads that are not always being shown (NY Times among others do it). Can anyone at Google confirm or deny whether these types of pages are being penalized?
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by zone411 15y ago
This hole is apparently being patched by Facebook right now. It has already been exploited. This forum thread might be deleted (previous thread about the photo security hole I publicized by posting here from the same forum was eventually de
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New Facebook security hole allows people to see friend requests of others(forum.bodybuilding.com)
3 points by zone411 15y ago|1 comments
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by zone411 15y ago
I think this Jeopardy challenge was so interesting in terms of general AI that it'd be a shame if the original team completely shifted their focus onto new fields. There are a lot of goalposts left, such as beating humans without the advant
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by zone411 15y ago
Knowing about your special page for reporting privacy holes would not change my decision to post it here. I think more good will come when media picks it up and some Facebook users realize that a company with your record of terrible privacy
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Facebook security hole allows viewing of private photos(forum.bodybuilding.com)
372 points by zone411 15y ago|137 comments
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3,500,000 Ultimate Bet user accounts compromised(subjectpoker.com)
1 points by zone411 15y ago|0 comments
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by zone411 15y ago
You don't know what "SEO" means, do you?
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by zone411 15y ago
At least get your terminology straight, this has nothing to do with SEO.
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by zone411 15y ago
I'm really surprised that Google would make such a sudden change. I would've expected lower rates or allowing free use if AdSense ads are placed on the maps or on the same page. Such changes could've been easier to accept for many sites ins
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by zone411 15y ago
The point is that Wikimedia is blatantly breaking Google's spam guidelines. Whether they sell links on Wikipedia or Wikimedia domains makes little difference as to their effectiveness in improving spammers' rankings in the search engines. I
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by zone411 15y ago
There is no unique page about "page rank" on Wikimedia's site, so search engines that would return it as a result would be doing something very wrong. Try "job openings" in Google. I see Wikimedia as #7 in the search results, right after hu
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by zone411 15y ago
Please read about how PageRank works. There is no distinction whatsoever about why they are able to sell links on that page (because of all outside links to Wikipedia) and no distinction about who the money goes to (Wikimedia). There is no
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by zone411 15y ago
Because of how PageRank works, no, there is no real difference at all. Wikipedia's homepage and many other pages link to Wikimedia and that's how it gets its high page rank and that's why it can sell the links this way. Other links on Wikip
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by zone411 15y ago
This is still against Google's spam guidelines, though. If they are to be consistent, I think they have to take action.
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by zone411 15y ago
Wikipedia is the flagship project of Wikimedia. I think you're nitpicking if you think there is much of a distinction on where the links are appearing.
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by zone411 15y ago
If the email quote from that page is accurate, then this is very blatant and the largest scheme in dollar amounts I've seen to manipulate search results. However, I will be quite surprised if Google does anything at all to penalize Wikipedi
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Wikipedia selling links for $5000(boom-online.co.uk)
7 points by zone411 15y ago|14 comments
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by zone411 16y ago
Right, I understand technical reasons why Wikipedia outranks this site. Google started by being terribly arrogant in thinking that they are smarter than SEOs and their search engine would be so hard to game, that they made the Page Rank val
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by zone411 16y ago
This has been disproven many times. People with commercial and political and other motives can write Wikipedia's content, which can be much more damaging than clearly marked ads. Also, since Wikipedia copied, regurgitated, and sometimes int
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by zone411 16y ago
You might say the say thing about many other content farms. That's their whole purpose: to appear good enough for people who are not very familiar with the topic. Google specifically said that the goal of their update was to penalize "low-q
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by zone411 16y ago
What I'd like to see somebody from Google explain to me is why Google considers Wikipedia as an example of a high-quality site (Cutts says so in http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/the-panda-that-hates-... ), when Wikipedia users copied
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by zone411 16y ago
I said no such thing. The reason I said these websites are well-established was exactly to highlight that I'd be much less afraid of any new entrants than he likely should be with his app. Even if new competitors took one percent of the mar
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by zone411 16y ago
Congrats. Are you sure that any possible additional competition because of this post won't matter to you, though? I am involved with some successful and already well-established websites and the last thing I would do is share how much they
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by zone411 16y ago
Increase the opacity and look at the background.

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