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Submission + - Stack Overflow admits it isn't very welcoming and plans to change (stackoverflow.blog)

Submitted by Paul Fernhout on Monday April 30, 2018 @10:52AM

Paul Fernhout writes: Jay Hanlon wrote at the StackOverflow blog: "Let's start with the painful truth: Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups. Our employees and community have cared about this for a long time, but we've struggled to talk about it publicly or to sufficiently prioritize it in recent years. And results matter more than intentions."

Submission + - Google Denies Demoting The Pirate Bay In Some Countries

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29, 2017 @02:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google and The Pirate Bay have had an interesting relationship over the years, to say the least. This week, users pointed out that The Pirate Bay can appear significantly lower down in search results (and definitely not on the first page), depending on which country you are searching in. We reached out to Google, which denied the allegations that it was demoting the site. TorrentFreak first spotted the odd behavior. The publication used Chrome in incognito mode to search for "The Pirate Bay" in Google with different IP addresses to see where the site's thepiratebay.org domain showed up. An IP address in the U.K., for example, would result in The Pirate Bay showing up on the fifth or sixth page, while an IP address in the U.S. would bring back The Pirate Bay as the top result.

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