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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.
With the new security feature — slated to take effect Tuesday — people who search the Internet using Yahoo..
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BBC News
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People searching the web for information on suicide are more likely to find sites encouraging the act than offering support, a study says.
Researchers used four search engines to look for suicide-related sites, the British Medical Journal said.
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BusinessWeek
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Can more targeted pitches on Facebook and other sites reverse the shrinking response to online ads?
In June, Luke Mitchell's student marketing service, Reach Students, ran a series of Web ads to promote an offer from a major parcel delivery service. Th..
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Ars Technica
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender has sent a flurry of takedown notices and legal threats to P2P web sites that are facilitating the propagation of a 700MB archive of internal MediaDefender e-mail that was leaked onto the Internet this we..
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Ars Technica
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Antispam community sites that help combat phishing scams and spam are being targeted with denial of service attacks by malware botnets presumably operated by spammers. The trend was reported last week by antispam site SpamNation.
SpamNation believes th..
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MSNBC
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YouTube, which has had to pull copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, a survey found.
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New York Post
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Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.
The search giant has notified a number of Web publishers in the last few days that they will be dropped from its popular..
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BusinessWeek
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MySpace and Friendster’s runaway popularity and exposure have helped spawn an array of targeted networking sites. Advertisers are noticing
Andrew Anker knew he had too many "friends" when business associates, looking to curry favor with his blogging..
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CNET
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The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned...
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CNET
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Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites...
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CNN
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About 1 percent of Web sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit, according to a U.S. government-commissioned study...
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CNN
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Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired? There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October...
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MSNBC
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An undisclosed technical glitch blocked users from logging on to Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail service and other sites Tuesday.
After several hours, the software maker was able to reduce but not completely fix the problem that left Web surfer..
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MSNBC
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Some greeting-card Web sites had trouble meeting demand on Valentine's Day, although one apparently prepared for the rush and did better than usual Thursday, a performance-measurement company said.
Keynote Systems Inc., whose automated probes in 10 U.S..
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BusinessWeek
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Sports-related sites are quickly drawing new users—and high-caliber advertisers
After years of trekking from Jacksonville to the ski trails of Appalachian Ski Mountain in North Carolina, Brandon Witkovich, 24, is moving from Florida to Colorado with..
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BBC News
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Online video sharing sites are reaping the benefits of the ongoing writers' strike in the US.
According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.
The new..
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BBC News
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It is not just the average net user who is a fan of social network sites, so are hi-tech criminals.
So say security professionals predicting what net criminals will turn to in 2008 to catch people out.
The quasi-intimate nature of the sites makes pe..
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BusinessWeek
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Food sites are hugely popular on the Web. Fueling the growth: social networking tools that let home cooks share recipes, tips, and comments
Bonnie Bucqueroux is the Internet's own iron chef. Doubt it? Just watch the woman cook a Christmas turducken...
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BBC News
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Social network sites are moving to make it much easier for software developers to write add-ons for the hugely popular web destinations.
Bebo, Facebook, Meebo and Friendster have unveiled plans to help them become more than places to keep in touch...
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BBC News
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More adults in the UK use social networking sites such as Facebook than in other European countries, a report by communications watchdog Ofcom says.
Four out of 10 UK adults with internet access use social networking sites compared to 17% in France, 12..
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