US Senate reins in ID card project

"The US Senate took a preliminary step on Wednesday toward reining in the controversial Real ID Act, which is scheduled to become the US' first federal identification card in a few years."

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Google Desktop Now Available For Linux

Google Desktop is now available for those running Linux as their operating system. Grab a copy of Google Desktop for Linux for download here.

Hmmm...I'd like to be giving it a whirl on Mandriva 2007, and hope it functions better than Picasa on Linux has.

Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google's Beijing engineering team and runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. The available languages include English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese.

Technorati Tags: google desktop, linux, mandriva
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Problems with Ranquest Toolbar

I just found and tagged this Ranquest Toolbar, but installing it screwed up the google toolbar as well as the firefox buttons, and so I removed it again.

http://www.rankquest.com/download-toolbar.html


Technorati Tags: Ranquest Toolbar, google toolbar, firefox buttons

Flickr-izing Image Search

"Now when you use Yahoo! Image Search, in addition to the billions of images we crawl from the Web, you've got access to over 300 million images from the amazing community of photographers on Flickr"

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000466.html

Technorati Tags: Flickr, yahoo image search

Search Illustrated: The Power Of Link Baiting

"Link Baiting is the latest in a procession of strategies search marketers have concocted over the years to ease the often laborious but absolutely necessary process of getting other web sites to link to your pages."

http://searchengineland.com/070626-095424.php

Technorati Tags: Link Baiting, seo

Seven Myths about Outsourcing

A court rules that e-mails deserve the same 4th Amendment protections as telephone calls

"A federal appeals court has reaffirmed that principle by ruling that
e-mail messages stored by an Internet service provider deserve the same
privacy protections as the contents of telephone calls. In both
situations, the legal touchstone is the same: whether users of a
communications service have a "reasonable expectation of privacy."

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Five Fundamental Questions of Keyword Research ?

"Keyword research and analysis are fundamental areas of SEO. From the viewpoint of your Web site, ask yourself the following questions.

1. What do I want to be known for?
2. What information, products, and services do I offer?
3. What keywords are my top ten competitors using?
4. What keyword phrases are people actually using when they search?
5. What types of actions are taken by people searching for each phrase?"

From: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626252

Technorati Tags: keyword, SEO, ClickZ, Searchenginewatch

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