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submission
KarmaRundi writes:
According to a recent blog post, My Space is censoring the My Space version of the Post Secret blog. Post Secret is a popular blogspot blog that posts a number of post cards with secrets that people have submitted anonymously each week. Post Secret has a sibling blog on My Space with additional secrets.Last Monday, the PostSecret Blog on MySpace was the most visited Blog on MySpace. The next day MySpace administrators removed postcards and comments from the Blog and prevented more than 100,000 people from viewing it.
Many people have emailed me concerned about what happened. I am posting a response here because I am unsure if an explanation on the MySpace Blog will go uncensored.
As I write this, the MySpace Blog is unblocked but the latest postcards and comments have been removed completely.
I will try and post more secrets on the MySpace Blog next week (November 15th) and see what happens. I hope you will email your friends about this and encourage MySpace to repost our secrets.
208073
submission
KarmaRundi writes:
Study shows Yahoo and Google search results are deemed better than MSN even when they're not.
Penn State researchers did a study and found that web searchers who evaluated identical search-engine results preferred Yahoo first and Google second even though more claimed to use Google regularly. These results, they say, provide evidence that branding matters as much on the Internet as off and that there is "carry over" branding in effect too.
Here is their method — they copied identical Google results pages ("camping Mexico," "laser removal," "manufactured home" and "techno music") and attributed them to four different search engines — Google, MSN Live Search, Yahoo! and an in-house engine they created for the study.
Then the researchers showed the faked results to 32 participants who were asked to evaluate the engines' performance in returning relevant results.
Despite the results being identical in content and presentation, participants indicated that Yahoo! and Google outperformed MSN Live Search and the in-house search engine.