Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[The Gypsy Librarian] Don Quixote's 400th Anniversary--Part One: He is reviewing two new editions of the novel out in time for the celebration. He writes that "the purpose of this review has been to suggest that Don Quijote is eminently readable, but that absolutely nothing can be got out of it without reading it. The book amply repays dipping--perusing a single chapter is better than all the repackaged substitutes--but in the end, only reading will do. " The article makes for an interesting little piece on reading the work and its significance, and it gives a little commentary on all the repackaging of the novel that will be going on as well.

[Got Ads? - Google AdWords and Overture PPC] Should You Create or Aggregate?: My take is that content will be king, this time around. And being a content producer/publisher (with an online cost base) is a very good place to be, because the headline links in Google, or in a news aggregator such as Yahoo Finance, have to lead to original content. And original content is hard to produce and cannot be done by machines.

[Virtual Grub Street] EliteBar Removal Tool Updates to 1.3.0!!!!!: When ordinary tools try to remove it, they only clean the registry calls, the C:\Windows\EliteToolbar directory and the cabinets files where it originated from, but they don't take any action against the malware itself that is currently running in RAM and waiting for the PC OS to be shut down only to repeat the infestation once again!This would seem to be a trick that the newer malware/adware products are widely copying. Perhaps this is the reason that the EliteBar Removal Tool has added so many porducts to the list of infections it removes. It is certainly the reason that most HijackThis and manual removal instructions direct the user to do main and downloader file deletions while in Safe Mode.

[23rd World] Google’s Local Business Center Tool: To test it out, I used my gmail login for my account information, which worked. I then entered a client’s business name and address, which quickly took me to an existing listing, and upon my confirmation, to a google map depicting the office’s exact location. This frightened me a little, because it was so easy and I could just imagine all the ficticious entries people could make. But Google thought of that and I was relieved to see that a pin number would me mailed to the address I entered for verification.

 [Halffull.org :: distributed humor] Google does it again: Make sure the content is actually useful, that there are no ads, and that it integrates nicely with good sites, rather than the crap that Yahoo floods you with. Google gives you the power to flood yourself, if you like, but you can strip it down to nothing but a search box if you like. Another neat feature to note is that, at least for me, the site loads the search bar first, and the extra content in one block last. I’m not sure if this is a function of the browser, the site, or chaos theory, but it keeps it nice and speedy for a homepage.

[Syndicator blog] Google’s Brand New Bag of Goodies: Since Yahoo!, MSN and some others have been doing this for a while already, it’s interesting to see this space heat up now - even as a clearer vision of where all of this is going quickly emerges.

[ InsideGoogle - part of the Blog News Channel] Study Finds Google News Unbiased: Devising a study whereby articles were scraped from both Google News and Yahoo! News during the 2004 pre-election period, then analyzed sentence-by-sentence for their political slant, Ulken concluded that both news services are unbiased…This study could not be more flawed. Analyzing sentences for political stance is completely useless.

New Google Blog - News and tips about Google: [May 14, 2005] Keyhole (owned by Google) announced on Wednesday the release of a new version of their collection of satellite images of the Earth, what is "likely the largest scale, highest resolution, natural color database of the earth's visual appearance and terrain surface ever assembled".

The Unofficial Google Weblog - google.weblogsinc.com _: The home-page personalization thing, part of a broader Google initiative called Fusion, is getting trendous, ubiquitous play in the ‘sphere, as expected. I stand by my initial impression, which is a combination of bewilderment and distress. The product is painfully immature, even childish by industry standards, and on my mahcines does not work properly. (The personalization is not persistent unless Itype in a special ”/ig” suffix to the google.com URL, and the “toggle” between the personalized and traditional pages described by Marissa Meyer is not a toggle at all, but a one-way switch away from the customized page.) And is RSS delivery really so hard to master that Google is struggling at this late date to provide it?

ResearchBuzz: News and Information about Search Engines, Databases ...: Further, While the blurbs for the different house resolutions are okay, I find myself wanting more information. Take H.R.1814, which on Plogress is described as "To allow travel between the United States and Cuba." A quick Google search for "hr 1814" 2005 site:house.gov brings relevant results. Further, examining a bill summary URL -- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:hr1814: -- shows that the HR number is embedded in the URL. I don't know too much about WordPress, but would there be any way to make the HR number a keyword of your entry, and then create a Thomas.Loc.Gov URL for each HR that's mentioned on the site?

  Google, Yahoo, MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links: 2) As for PageRank calculations, it's important to remember that PageRank is a pure popularity score (other search engines have similar scoring mechanisms, just not catchy names other than Yahoo's Web Rank). The nofollow attribute means that a link will not be counted as a "vote" in this popularity contest. That can have an impact on ranking, in cases where the impact of other factors beyond pure popularity come into play.

FlickrBlog: The precious DNA we've got -- that of the Ludicrew -- is on side and revving up for building Flickr. Having the team building out the team's vision for Flickr has been stressed as our number one priority, and keeping us around -- in spite of our wiseassery, tomfoolery and tendency to hoot spontaneously -- is crucial for preserving the Flickrness that is Flickr.  They're not going to replace any of us with suits, nor induce us to wear them. Lapel? I don't know what you mean.

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