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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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NewsGrange, @rafat, @percival, @vwadhwa, @fromedome and WebProNews
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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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SAI, Bits, TechCrunch, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Marketing News, Daring Fireball, V3.co.uk and Gizmodo
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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MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN, Redmond Pie, iClarified and Electronista
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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.
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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eWeek, Technologizer, Computerworld, ITworld.com, FT Tech Hub, dylan tweney, Digital Trends and Crave
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Intel details Thunderbolt as exclusive to Apple until 2012
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Electronista and Webomatica
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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TechCrunch, Digits, paidContent and WebProNews
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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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Electronista and Electricpig.co.uk
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Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro with Next Generation Processors, Graphics & Thunderbolt I/O Technology
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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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ITworld.com, Cryptome and Help Net Security, Thanks:paypal
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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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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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Fortune, @loic, 901am and Electricpig.co.uk
Shan Sinha / Docs Blog:
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office available to all — Many of you already use Google Docs for editing your documents, but there are still many people that are tied to desktop applications and haven't experienced the numerous benefits cloud applications to bring.
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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
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Tim Anderson's ITWriting, SlashGear, WebProNews and Softpedia News
AppleInsider:
Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault — Apple on Thursday released a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, which takes some of the best ideas the company has conceived for the iPad and brings them back to the Mac for the eighth major release of the flagship operating system due this summer.
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
AOL's First Big Change for Huffington Post: Bigger Ads — News Aggregation Site Will Get ‘Project Devil’ Ads, but Will Anyone Else? — After months of negotiations with advertisers and agencies, AOL is starting to roll out “Project Devil,” a larger ad format it hopes will deliver …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Exec David Eun Out - Here's His Email To Staff
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Instagram Unveils Realtime API With Foodspotting, Fancy, Momento, Flipboard, About.me And Others — It really is kind of amazing that Instagram has shot past two million users in just a few months with only an iPhone app. No Android app, no website, no real third-party support.
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instagr.am, SAI, ReadWriteWeb, NetworkEffect, Mashable!, GigaOM, The Next Web, ProgrammableWeb and Bits, Thanks:chrismessina
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.
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Google Recipe Search Cooks Up Next Gen of Search — Stepping into the kitchen now, Google introduced a recipe search engine Thursday that serves up dishes based not only on the ingredients you may have on hand, but the calories you want to consume and even how much time you have to cook.
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, TeleRead, eHomeUpgrade and Know Your Cell
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
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Anonymous hacks church Web site during live interview — Defiant Westboro Baptist Church says Anonymous had to try ‘mightily’ to hack its site — Computerworld - The Anonymous hacking collective this morning defaced the Web site of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in the middle …
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The Escapist and Naked Security
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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