Archive for May 4th, 2004

Google Search: gmail

Interesting bit of history.

Search Back in Time: Gmail Before Google

AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales

Joe Consumer never “puts together” his computer or upgrades his CPU. Joe Consumer buys prepackaged systems with Windows XP preinstalled.

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Googlewhacks No Longer

The World According To Google
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It can also showcase fads at the expense of substance. “Popular does not make a site accurate, comprehensive, or even interesting,” Vaidhyanathan says, using his own first name as an example. A Google search on “Siva” returns links to a song by the rock group Smashing Pumpkins and to Vaidhyanathan’s own weblog. “Now, I’m named for an important Hindu god, worshipped by a billion people,”he says. “Don’t you think that Siva should get top billing?”

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What to do with Spam

http://spamcop.net

You can register with Spamcop for free, get an ID, and forward all spam messages (full headers) to Spamcop. They automatically trace the originis of the offending spam message, send a report to you, and you click on where to send the report, and it forwards it to the where it really hurts the spammer: their own internet provider.
Also forward all spam messages to:
UCE@FTC.GOV

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