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Blogger Freed After 226 Days in Jail For Contempt 224

Posted by Zonk
from the little-site-big-stand dept.
frdmfghtr writes "Over at CNN is a report that a blogger has been freed after spending 226 days in jail — a record for a journalist held in contempt. 'Wolf had been found in contempt for refusing to obey a subpoena to turn over his video from a July 2005 protest during the G-8 economic summit where anarchists were suspected of vandalizing a San Francisco police car. One city officer was struck during the rally and his skull was fractured ... California's shield law allows reporters to keep sources and unpublished material secret. But there is no federal shield law protecting reporters from federal investigations. The National Writer's Union, which represents freelance writers, said in a statement that Wolf should never have been jailed. "The abuses visited on Josh and other journalists are part of an effort by governments at all levels to control the volume, flow and content of the information that reaches the public," the union said.'"
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Google is varying results!

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Sellout Bessie
Sellout Bessie writes "On doing some searching trying to adjust rankings for some of our websites, we have noticed huge discrepancies in the amount of results we were given from different search terms, even to the extent that a given search to google from 2 users in different areas could not even have one result the same on the first page of results. Some google ips our sites are on the first page, others they are not listed at all. To reproduce this we tried searching for cow from google ip http://64.233.167.99/ then searching it again from a regular round robin http://google.com/ we find the results can vary by up to 2 or 3 million results! Can anyone else find crazy first page of results variations?"

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