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Answers - Answers - Answers! Where to Find some answers!

Posted on March 17th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Google, Web Service.

Well, everyone"s got questions - But where to ask the hard to answer questions? - You tried the google search, the yahoo search and every other type of search out there and still not able to answer your questions! - Well head on over to Answerbag. Even if you don"t have a question you are sure to learn something here. Soon after reading the latest questions you will become the Cliff Clavin at your local bar.

A few Sample questions listed for the past several days off of Answerbag:

Is it possible to determine what someone is typing by listening to the clicking of the keyboard?
Why do guys get sympathy pains when they hear about someone getting kicked in the testicles?
Is it generally true that larger dogs breeds don"t live as long?
Is there a minimum age requirement to be a video game tester?
How is it that cats move like ninjas?

Technorati Tags: Anything Else, Google, Web Service

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Way to Go Steelers - Google Posts the Ads

Posted on February 5th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Football, Google, Pittsburgh, Search Engine, Steelers, Super Bowl.

Now we can watch the ad’s on Google Video.

As we all watched this exciting game and missed some of the commercials. (Bathroom Breaks, more beer and munchies)

It was just announced on the Google Blog that all the videos of the Advertisement can be found here.

By the Way - Way To Go Stillers - Way to go.

Official Google Blog: This Bowl’s for you

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Google Helping To Stop Spyware

Posted on January 28th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Computing, Consulting, Google, Search Engine, SpyWare, Web Service.

Well Google keeps getting better and better. Announced today via Official Google Blog was that Google will Co-Sponsor with Sun Microsystems and Lenovo, STOPBadWare.Org. StopBadWare.Org is a new initiative aimed at combating the growing problem of spyware and other deceptive software. This project is led by Harvard’s Berkman Center and the Oxford Internet Institute. And Consumer Reports WebWatch is serving as an unpaid advisor to the effort.

According to their FAQ page: StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers make better choices about what they download onto their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

Learn more here : Official Google Blog: Putting a stop to spyware

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