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Week in tech: Google vs. China edition
Google and China dominated the news this week. First came Google’s decision to stop censoring search results in China and the
Continue reading »It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives
Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so. Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay’s founders.
Continue reading »Microsoft inks Bing pacts with Twitter, Facebook
Redmond gets Web2.0rhea Microsoft is adding “real-time” search results from Facebook and Twitter to its Bing decision engine search engine, after inking deals with both social networking outfits.…
Continue reading »Google search index prettifies PDF view
Kiss me quick Google’s search results now include a feature that allows web surfers to more easily view formatted PDFs from within their browser.… ?
Continue reading »Google dumps The Pirate Bay home page
Ace indexing site Google (right) has deleted the home page of ace indexing site The Pirate Bay. The move follows a complaint it received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, says the IDG News Service , going on A search for “The Pirate Bay” Fridays turned up a message at the bottom of the first search-results page that said: “In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 7 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.” The complaint was filed by Destined Enterprises, “which in the past has helped the adult-entertainment industry battle online piracy, according to other filings at ChillingEffects.org., Google doesn’t say anything other than what’s available at ChillingEffects.org, according to a spokesman, adds IDG.
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