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The Pirate Bay shuts down its trackers

David — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:19:13 +0000

The site The Pirate Bay, referencing files for sharing on BitTorrent, had been attacked in Italy and the Netherlands, and heavily sentenced in Sweden. The film and music industries had obtained sentences of one year of jail and € 2.7 million compensation.

In order to save some money, The Pirate Bay announced today the end of its BitTorrent trackers. (A tracker is a server to organize the transfer of files between peers.)

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Netvibes, the online RSS reader upgrades

Jessica — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:32:57 +0000

Netvibes is a web site to regroup many RSS feed, news, and other informations (weather, stock, TV programs...) in pages that we create and organize in our way.

Today, Netvibes shows a page saying:

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Google Update becomes open-source

David — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:47:27 +0000

After often criticized Google, about Chrome because of a potential spyware in Google Update and recently about the cookie DART, I must applause the excellent initiative of the U.S. giant to make available the source code for Google Update.

We often have doubt of what was actually doing this program provided with all Google products. To clear this doubt, this note was published:

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Ad-block the sponsored links on search engines results pages

David — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:03:23 +0000

On every search engine, before or besides the natural results, some sponsored links are shown. They are close to your research, nevertheless they don't reflect the better sites to your request.

Moreover, the money paid by the advertiser on a click on these ads will go entirely to the search engine. And if you click on an ad, it's better to click when visiting a site (like this one), the benefit of the click will be shared between the ads seller and the webmaster (like me).

AdBlock Plus is a Firefox plugin to block ads, and other elements...

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Google spy you with AdSense

Jessica — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:54:09 +0000

Some people already suspected it, but it's official: the AdSense ads follow you from one site to another to know your interests

It was in an e-mail sent today to all AdSense publishers «Introducing advertising targeted by user interest».

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Learn everything before buying with Testfreak

Did — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:44:23 +0000

TestFreaks is a website with a lot of informations about all the electronic products: audio, video, computers, consoles, car audio, cameras, phones...

It's an aggregator of many sources of reviews, like the consumers comments on the stores and the profesionnal reviews in the magazines.

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Minimum requirements for any game

Jessica — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:24:29 +0000

This is a question you often ask yourself when you want a new video game:

can I run that game?

With the site Can you run it? you can test if your computer match the minimum hardware requirements to run a game.

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Most searched terms in 2008

Jessica — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:49:17 +0000

Yahoo just published its top 10 of the most searched words in the search engine during the year 2008.

Yahoo is mainly used in USA, so the research top 10 is very American. Google has won the war in a large part of the word (sadly, monopoles are never good).

The singer Britney Spears takes the first place.

In second place we find the wrestling with the term WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) a show totally unknown outside USA. And Barack Obama the future president completes the podium.

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IMDb is 18 years old

Did — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:37:53 +0000

IMDb (Internet Movie Database) the biggest data base on movies, is 18 years old! It's obviously the oldest site on the Web, for a good reason: the first browser only appears one year later.

In fact, the IMDb founder Col Needham explains that he starts publishing movie credits on the newsgroups (usenet, an other Internet protocol, older than the Web HTTP).

Today IMDB.com has became a enormous website, collecting data from thousands movies. From older, to those still in production, pages about actors, but also about TV series and video games. It brings 2 millions visitors a day!

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Spyware in Google Chrome?

David — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:42:45 +0000

After the desinstallation of Chrome a process remains in memory, and this process accesses to the registry to modify the security rules of IE and Firefox. A way to continue to spy the user after desinstallation?

Source Flying over Clouds: Google Chrome and the post-desinstallation garbage

Let's see that with more details:

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Pictures of Google Chrome totally naked!

David — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:39:04 +0000

This week all bloggers have followed Chrome like blind sheep and well propagated the advert for Google browser. Like the last celebrity story, they must write a post about Chrome, even to say that they won't use it.

But do the sheep-bloggers who have retransmitted the news on Chrome really know what interest really the leaders of Google?

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Microsoft buys Ciao

Jessica — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:30:50 +0000

Microsoft just buy the company Greenfield Online Inc., provinding consumers statistics data and owning the sites Ciao (.co.uk and .com, .fr, .it;, .de, .se...) regrouping buyers reviews on thousand of products.

Microsoft has paid $17.50 a stock, i.e. a total of $ 486 millions.

Renoncing for a while to buy Yahoo, Microsoft has decided to proceed to smaller purchases, but still to develop on the Internet.

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A natural language search-engine for Wikipedia

Jessica — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:56:18 +0000

The Powerset company worked on a seach engine for Wikipedia where we don't type mixed words, but a good english question. (Actually the engine is available only in English.)

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Create an intelligent search engine

David — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:02:02 +0000

When we build a website containing many pages based on the same template (blog, shop, forum, directory...) we always need a search-engine to extract results from the database.

Here things are getting harder, because by searching "videos" we won't find articles with the word "video" whereas it would be needed..

Fortunately, there is a solution: use a soundex. It's an algorithm which will compared words based on phonetics of the words, so the results will be close in sound to the searched term.

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My first MFA (Made for Adsense)

David — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:45:55 +0000

After reading a few articles about this topic, I started to create a MFA, i.e. a website with a poor content with as main goal makes visitors click on ads.

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Exalead: the french search engine

David — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:39:54 +0000

I read, on lot of blogs, articles telling about one or other new Google's service, and few people seems to know Exalead a search engine from France.

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