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The Official Google Blog:
Finding more high-quality sites in search — Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update — In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with “shallow” or “low-quality” content. Now the company is delivering, announcing a change to its ranking algorithm designed take out such material.
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Demand Media:
A Statement About Search Engine Algorithm Changes — How our content reaches the consumer - whether it's through direct visits, social media referrals, apps or search - has always been important to and monitored closely by us. We also recognize that major search engines like Google have and will continue to make frequent changes.
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BoomTown, paidContent, WebProNews and DomainIncite.com
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Sources: iPad 2 lands in thinner body with spec bump and cameras, SD slot and higher resolution display are out — The Apple rumors game can be a volatile thing. Just as we'd heard about last minute alterations to the Apple TV before it hit the market, we've gotten word from sources …
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Fonehome, BlogsDNA, Pocket-lint, 9 to 5 Mac, Redmond Pie, Electronista, MacRumors and iClarified
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Eleventh Hour — I like Josh Topolsky, and I like Engadget, but this is a bit much: … Eleventh hour, my ass. Nothing in these regards has changed in the iPad 2 since January. Nothing. There was never going to be a higher resolution display in the iPad 2.
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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Google eyes UK launch of YouTube movie service — Google's YouTube is eager to launch an unlimited subscription service for movies similar to Netflix and Amazon and is considering starting it overseas to cut down on the competition, The Post has learned. — The search giant …
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SAI, Reuters, SlashGear and The Next Web
Zach Epstein / BGR:
New evidence of Android apps running on BlackBerry phones emerges — Mobile app developer ShopSavvy reports that its Android application has recently been tested on multiple BlackBerry devices. BGR exclusively reported last month that RIM may be working on a solution that would allow Android apps …
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Examiner, @loic, Fortune, 901am, Electricpig.co.uk and Know Your Mobile
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
What Thunderbolt Means for End Users — Apple and Intel today took the wrappers off of Thunderbolt, a new wired connection technology that combines data transfer and video output capabilities. Thunderbolt appears standard in Apple's new MacBook Pro models, replacing the Mini DisplayPort …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Intel details Thunderbolt as exclusive to Apple until 2012
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Electronista, Webomatica and Computerworld
ifixit:
MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Early 2011 Teardown — We got our hands on Apple's newest MacBook Pro 15" on February 24, 2011. This is Apple's first laptop to sport a quad-core processor, and also adds a brand-new I/O technology with a Thunderbolt port.
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MacRumors, Engadget, Electronista, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, ThinkMobile, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and CNET News
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Myspace Music President Courtney Holt Leaving — This one was only a matter of time: Myspace Music head Courtney Holt is stepping down. — Sources say Holt doesn't have another post lined up. But the real news is that he was still at the site, which is a joint venture between Myspace and the major music labels.
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thinq_, paidContent, TechCrunch, Digits and WebProNews
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
News Corp kicks off Myspace sale process
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Inquirer and The Register
Financial Times:
Apple, Google and Spotify race to music market — The digital music market is set to be shaken up as soon as this summer as Apple, Google and Spotify race to deliver new services that labels warily hope may reverse a decade of declining revenues. Each of the technology companies is taking …
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SAI, MacStories, Electronista and iLounge
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple reportedly clarifies its cloud strategy to the music labels
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
New MacBook Pros get GeekBenched. Outrunning last year's Mac Pros — Some lucky people out there in Internetland are Geekbenching their new MacBook Pros Quad i7s with average Geekbench scores coming up right around 10,000 — The 2. GHz Quads coming in a little lower obviously at around 8000 …
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Primate Labs Blog, MacRumors, Electronista, Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk and AppleInsider
Anuj Nayar / The PayPal Blog:
PayPal Statement on Courage to Resist Situation — While it is generally not our policy to comment publicly on account dealings, we are sharing the following statement to clarify information regarding the Courage To Resist organization's PayPal account and their claim that this is somehow associated …
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thinq_, Cryptome and TechCrunch, Thanks:paypal
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Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
PayPal reinstates fund meant to help U.S. Army's Manning
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SAI, Mashable!, Softpedia News, The Huffington Post, ReadWriteWeb, Techdirt, Pulse2, Help Net Security, ArabCrunch, WL Central and Bradley Manning Support …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Feature: All this has happened before: NVIDIA 3.0, ARM, and the fate of x86 — At a dinner this week with members of the press, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang laid out his view of NVIDIA's past, present, and future in light of recent developments in the processor market.
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VizWorld.com
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Android Market adds e-books; movies and music soon to come? — The Android world's been a-buzz this last week over a few new Android Market URLS, including http://market.android.com/music/ and http://market.android.com/movies/. In case you thought there was nothing to this tip, guess again …
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IntoMobile, Electronista, eHomeUpgrade, TeleRead and Know Your Cell
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Google Pulls VoiceMail App in Possible In-App Payment Move — In a move that could signal Google is taking a hard line on in-app payments similar to the way Apple has outlined new subscription rules, Google has pulled the popular Visual VoiceMail app from Android Market, citing a violation of the developer payment rules.
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Matthias Galica / ShareSquare Blog:
How Microsoft, Mobile Tag, and AT&T are Killing Consumer QR Code Scanning In Utero — Sidebar: This post contains rhetoric that is more opinionated than our standard blogs. However, this is something we at ShareSquare feel strongly about, and we believe the truth needs to be told.
Thanks:lockergnome
Paul Paliath / GeekSmack:
Microsoft ups WP7 Marketplace free app submissions limit from 5 to 100 — Microsoft announced through its Windows Phone Marketplace Developer Newsletter that it has upped the limit on free app submissions to the WP7 Marketplace from 5 to 100. The following is what was said in the newsletter by Microsoft:
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LiveSide.net, The Windows Blog, Electronista, WMPoweruser.com and SlashGear, Thanks:paulz0r
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Meet the 13 Companies that Came Out on Top at Launch — Nearly 50 companies have presented over the past two days at Jason Calcanis' LAUNCH conference. We've seen everything from well-established companies like StackOverflow launch a job-finder service for its existing members to companies sign $100,000 deals on stage.
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google Cloud Connect moves Microsoft Office files to Google Docs, as long as you're not using a Mac — Google is continuing its advance on Microsoft Office with Cloud Connect, a software plug-in that moves Office files to Google Docs. — Cloud Connect, released Thursday …
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Google Operating System, SlashGear, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, WebProNews and Softpedia News
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Shan Sinha / Docs Blog:
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office available to all
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Wall Street Journal, Mashable!, BetaNews, InformationWeek, The Official Google Blog, The Register, Techland, Google Enterprise Blog, V3.co.uk, Techie Buzz, Pluggd.in, Lifehacker, Liliputing, Erictric, Seattle Times, CNET News, Download Squad, Digital Trends, WinRumors, Pulse2, eWeek, The Microsoft Blog, InfoWorld and NewEnterprise
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Discontinuing MobileMe Retail Boxes, Preparing for Free Overhauled Version? [Updated] — Apple today notified resellers that it has discontinued the retail box version of MobileMe, shifting entirely to digital sales. Existing stocks of boxed MobileMe can continue to be sold while their supplies last.
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Between the Lines Blog, AppleInsider, Technologizer, Examiner, PC World, GigaOM, MacRumors Page 2, Data Center Knowledge, TUAW, Apple Bitch, Engadget, MacStories, TiPb, App Advice, Digital Trends, iLounge, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Loop, iClarified, The Register, Ars Technica, Electronista and Digital Daily
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
On hiring spree, Google expands in Seattle and Kirkland — To accommodate new employees that it expects to hire this year, Google is expanding its offices in Seattle and Kirkland. — The company's been talking up its growth plan over the past month, saying it expects to add more than 6,000 employees this year globally.
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Seattle 2.0 and The Microsoft Blog
