Saul Hansell from the New York Times reported on an interesting discover that uncovered that Google may look at more than just your previous query to tailor the ads you see on the search page. Now, Google may look back several past queries to tailor your search ads. Yes, this is a major difference – [...]

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According to comScore, U.S. Internet users watched 11.5 billion online videos in March, 2008. The average viewer watched nearly three hours of video online. These statistics make video an attractive means for advertisers to reach their audience, and in turn, a potential windfall for online video hosts such as YouTube and Google. So far, however, [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Visual Search The Future? Spare Me The Eye Candy About two years ago, I wrote an article called Why Search Sucks & You Won’t Fix It The Way You Think. In it, [...]

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This sucks. On some very rare occasions, when I connect an SD card reader to my Ubuntu machine, it freezes. Normally I just reboot and everything is fine. But this time my Ubuntu machine won’t boot, and it shows a message likeStarting up …Loading, please wait…kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/bd656dcd-04b4-412f-a880-62a6553bd8b) = sda5(8,5)kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/bd656dcd-04b4-412f-a880-62a6553bd8bkinit: No [...]

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Posted by rebecca Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: Want to learn how to do 100 pushups? This site gives you a nice training program that’s bound to turn your T-Rex arms into hefty guns in no time. This Wired article says we need to ask ourselves "What [...]

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