All search engines, to varying degrees, analyze links in calculating the relevancy of a page for a particular query. Seed the Web with enough links pointing to the same site using the same anchor text, and you alter the search results. The effect is magnified with less popular search phrases, since there are far fewer competing links.

Some Google bombs may have been accomplished with as few as 20 links. What is important is not the number of links, but rather the popularity of the sites doing the linking and the relative obscurity of the search term.

I wonder if us UK bloggers should do that for Blair, something on the lines of 'big liar.'

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Other title(s) for this story: Engineering Google Results to Make a Point

For the first time in Internet history there are more DNS rootservers outside the United States than within, following this week's launch in Frankfurt of an anycast "instance" of RIPE NCC-managed K root server.

The US still has the master A root server in Dullas, under the control of the US Dept. of Commerce.

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Other title(s) for this story: The World and the US internet balance of power

I think all of his arguments have been rebutted now.

Easy subscription is one I'd like to add to. I can subscribe to feed by hitting the coffee cup icon on a lot of sites, or, more usually pulling down a bookmark which looks in their headers for a feed. Sure lots haven't got this yet, but it's there and has been for two years.

I think there's still a ways to go, but for sure it's ready for prime time. This is why many large orgs like the BBC are publishing through it.

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Other title(s) for this story: 10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time

.Last year was yet another record-breaking year for text messaging, and this year is set to be bigger. A massive 20.5 billion SMS messages were sent over the four main mobile networks, said the Mobile Data Association, with 1.9 billion sent in December alone.

I wonder how much mobile firms make out of picture messaging?

 Source: BBC News | Technology | World Edition; 23/01/2004; 11:45:10.
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Other title(s) for this story: Text messaging reaches new high

From Metafilter I also found, some that are more appealing to me as a designer. Fuller of meaning and poignantcy. Here's a cheesy cheese example:

Found Typography (right) and if you liked that, please also try Hundreds of Thousands.

 Source: MetaFilter; 22/01/2004; 23:45:17.
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Other title(s) for this story: Found Typography