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code.google.com - 1/6/2009
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googleblog.blogspot.com - 1/11/2009
Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
— googleblog.blogspot.com — Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library. Today,... search engines enable us to access immense quantities of useful information in an instant, without leaving home. Tools like email, online books and ... (more) Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search

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technology.timesonline.co.uk - 1/11/2009
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
— technology.timesonline.co.uk — Click here for how to reduce the footprint of the Web | Google's response to the story... Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new ... (more) Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches

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google.com - 1/8/2009
The Associated Press: Google cuts temporary workers but murky on details
— google.com — 3 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Google Inc. has jettisoned a substantial number of temporary workers in... a recent austerity drive spurred by the recession, although the Internet search leader still intends to spend billions of dollars during the next ... (more) The Associated Press: Google cuts temporary workers but ...

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Google Code Hosting Abused for Spam
Google Blogoscoped — ... Spammers have found a way to try abuse the Google Code Hosting project. Originally, Code Hosting was and is meant as a platform to store and manage your open source projects. Including an issues tracker, a download section, and source access. Plus a descriptive frontpage which allows things like text, links, and pictures. Now look at what one user of the service made with that front page: ...

Google Code Hosting abused with “Porn and Sex” links
D' Technology Weblog — ... A user has created a page called “Free Gay Sex Picture Movie” and stored it on Google Code hosting. Below the headline “Free Gay [and so on] Movie”, an abundance of 509 searcher-luring adult keywords are pasted, with several phrases throughout printed in bold. The “embedded movie” with an animated loading symbol isn’t one at all: it’s a GIF image merely looking like a video. Click it, and you’ll be taken to another site (imp-porntube.net), which my browser warns me from using due to it being ...

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