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Submission + - Google: Um.. err... better now? (bbc.co.uk)

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markhb

on Thursday September 04, 2008 @08:34AM

markhb writes: "Google has rescinded the "We have rights to everything you look at through our browser" portion of their EULA for Chrome. As some commented, they just reused their global Terms of Service, apparently without thinking too much about it. Those readers who are programmers might recognize this as a "copy and paste error.""

Submission + - Like Google Maps for the 19th Century

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markhb

on Friday October 06, 2006 @07:37AM

markhb writes: "Sure, Google can show you your house, but can they show you what where there before your house? A Maine company is building a database of historic maps, making them scrollable and searchable much like Google is. The plan, as reported in today's Portland newspaper, is to eventually make it into a 3-dimensional map database: length, width and time."

Submission + - BBC News Domain Hijacked

Submitted by markhb on Thursday September 07, 2006 @07:30AM

markhb writes: While the BBC homepage at www.bbc.co.uk appears to be working, squatters seem to have taken over the Beeb's News domain, as a look at news.bbc.co.uk will show. The BBC News site is one of the most heavily-viewed sites in the world, so this is likely to be disruptive — or at least disturbing — to many until it is fixed.

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