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[Search Engine Watch Blog] But my complaint is that this is something that you don't want everybody to know about, because you know that it's deceitful, and it's not about providing value for people. It's not about providing a great information resource that will be the #1 site on the Web. It's about flooding the Web with crap, and in that sewage, [they're] going to bury everyone else. That's my main concern.
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee] Companies Subvert Search Results to Squelch Criticism: "Eric Janssen is the driving force behind Quixtar Blog and became interested in the company when his wife became an independent business owner (IBO). Janssen is also a longtime journalist and online creative manager for the Memphis Commercial Appeal's Web site, so when he was pitched to join Quixtar, he was curious why no one would directly answer his questions. He found that unbiased online information on Quixtar was scarce -- with most sites being strongly for or against the company's practices as a multi-level marketing organization for energy drinks and cosmetics.
[LeliaThomas.Com] See Your Crap in a Whole New Light: Since I cannot be sure of web articles not having expiration dates, where they are taken off of the web, I have posted the full article here, along with pictures at the bottom. ”Mr. Floatie protests sewage dumping Broadcast News Friday, May 06, 2005 VICTORIA ” The dumping of raw sewage
[Networkworld.com] Oh, crap!: According to an article in New Scientist magazine, University of Pennsylvania Researchers have developed an electricity generator fueled by, well, crap. The thing takes in raw sewage, breaks it down using a similar process the body does when it digests food, then captures the electrons. It's basically doing the job of a sewage treatment plant with the added bonus of electrical generation. It's still in development, but we can smell success when we see it.
[Techcentralstation.com] TCS: Tech Central Station - Content Is Crap: Creative Commons is based on a naive ideology that believes that raw content is gold, which then gets stolen by the evil media companies. In reality, the economics of content are that most of the value-added comes from the filtering process, not the creation process. If you want to overthrow incumbent publishers with Internet-based alternatives, you are better off starting from the assumption that Content is Crap.
[Urban75.org] Asia earthquake disaster. 'Our honeymoon in the Maldives', a first ...: We waded through shit and piss to get there (it was only much later that we worried about the effects of the wound I had on my toe from scraping it on coral while snorkelling) via a delay where we met up with Ronan and Lynda again and they accompanied us to the bunker. I actually shit myself and wiped my arse on a passing floating towel.
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