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Are Web Ratings Dangerous To Sites? 54

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @08:43PM from the a-million-different-ways-to-count dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "For website publishers, a poor web rating can be disastrous. Bad television ratings mean television shows get canceled, bad web ratings mean websites go out of business. For advertisers, accurate web ratings are critical to optimize spending. Inaccurate ratings data means advertisers will overspend on poorly performing sites or not advertise on smaller sites whose numbers are really much higher than reported. In the case of Canadian web site Digital Home, already hit with an advertising boycott by Bell Canada over the site's pro-consumer editorial content, the site's owner is now in danger of ending operations, apparently due to the inaccuracies of ComScore rankings. For example, Google Analytics reported Digital Home served up over 2.7 million page views in January to almost 250,000 unique visitors. A web buyer at one of Canada's largest advertising agencies confirmed that ComScore reported just 32,000 visitors. Added to this is ComScore's secretly-installed spyware troubles."

Journal Journal: Dazzling image captures violent birth of stars

Journal by slayermet420 on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @08:20PM

CNN is reporting about the amazing new image captured by the Hubble telescope. The image, released by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, is more than 50 light years wide. It shows the chaotic Carina Nebula, through the birth and death of stars. It really is an amazing picture, available directly

Submission + - More battery problems for Sony

Submitted by nevillethedevil on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @07:02PM

nevillethedevil writes: Looks like more problems for Sony batteries. According to pcmag, Acer are the ones who are doing a recall on their laptops. .From the article:
"Just as Sony seemed to be putting its battery recall behind it, Acer announced on Wednesday it would be recalling close to 27,000 of its Sony-made lithium-ion laptop batteries"

Submission + - First Successful Demonstration of CO2 Capture

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @06:57PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The "air extraction" prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere. This is GRT's first step toward a commercially viable air capture device."

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