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YouTube told to shut down by Brazil court

Jan 4, 2007Comments

As if this day hadn’t been crazy enough! Apparently a Brazilian court ordered YouTube to shut down until it removes a sex video of Daniela Ciecarelli.
Cicarelli and her boyfriend have filed a suit to get the video taken down and also want $116,000 in damages for each day that it stays up. [...]

Should Digg Pages Be Listed on Google?

Jan 4, 2007Comments

I was reading over on SEO Roundtable this morning about a discussion concerning whether or not Digg pages should be listed on Google.
From the discussion over at Search Engine Journal there are a couple different points of view. Allen Stern believes that Digg adds no value to the story and should not be indexed. [...]

Ask X the Ajax based Search Engine

Jan 1, 2007Comments

Ask.com has launched a new Ajax based version of its search engine - Ask X.
Overall the speed of the app is not too bad. The initial search that I did took a little while to appear. At the same time, I’m not sure that even an Ajax approach could get me to take [...]

Store Owner To Sue Blog Owner Over Google Ranking

Dec 11, 2006Comments

Over on the SEO Roundtable website there is an entertaining article about a recent WebmasterWorld & DigitalPoint forums thread. Apparently a blog owner has received an e-mail from an online store owner requesting that he lower his ranking for a keyword phrase that his blog is ranking well for. The store owner seems [...]

Tagbulb a Tag Search Engine

Dec 8, 2006Comments

Tagbulb is a search engine based on searching tags from various sources like Flickr, YouTube, Magnolia and others with a pretty decent interface.
It’s a YUI-based implementation, but I do not like that from the main search it takes you directly to the image search and then you have to choose from the other content types [...]

Ajax Report Viewer

Dec 6, 2006Comments

Erik Swenson of Open Intelligence has recently launched an Ajax Report Viewer called OpenReports Report Viewer.
The OpenReports Report Viewer is a functional demo application created to illustrate the use of the new report generation and scheduling API available in OpenReports 2.1.
The example uses an Ajax interface and YUI and YUI-EXT. Go ahead and check [...]