A guidebook to pedophilia was offered on Amazon for a scant 24 hours before it was removed in the face of enormous protest from users of the enormous online platform. During that time, 3,000 copies of the book sold, and a firestorm on the difference between free speech and promoting illegal activities swept across the [...]
Google Does Employees Right
November 15th, 2010Last Year, Google employees got a phone. This year, Business Insider is reporting that the company has given all of its employees a $1,000 holiday cash bonus! In addition, Google employees will be seeing a 10% salary hikes starting in 2011, and the opportunity to earn additional salary next year. Business Insider claims their source [...]
Flash is now “Googleable”?
November 12th, 2010According to a post on the Google Webmaster Blog by software engineers Jifeng Situ and Sverre Sundsdal, great strides have been made in the ability to index Flash sites – and more improvements are on the way: “Last month we expanded our SWF indexing capabilities thanks to our continued collaboration with Adobe and a new [...]
Google Street View Catches Criminal?
November 10th, 2010A lot of people don’t care for Google Street View, saying it captures things best left unseen – but the popular mapping service has possibly aided in the apprehension of a crook! According to the UK Telegraph, “A caravan owner whose vehicle was stolen has spotted a potential suspect while looking at his house on [...]
