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Why Wikipedia May Not Be Totally Safe From Google Knol

There has been a lot of talk about Google’s recently announced Knol project on the web over the last week or so, but up till now we haven’t felt the need to add anything. However a piece in today’s Guardian Technology made an assumption that I though was worth challenging.
In the piece Charles Arthur sets […]

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WikiScanner: Outing Wikipedia Spammers For Link Bait

You may have read recently about the companies which have been caught editing articles on Wikipedia which deal with their business. A new site called WikiScanner will trawl through anonymous edits on Wikipedia and match them with corporate IP addresses; whilst not all of these edits will be spam (some may be workers editing pages […]

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MSN Doesn’t Dig Digg

People often ask why MSN hasn’t been able to dominate the search landscape as it has in the PC sector. One reason might be that it doesn’t provide results as relevant as the other major engines.
For example, Threadwatch have pointed out that if you search for the social news site digg on MSN Live, the […]

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