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Best Programming Practices For Web Developers 210

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 10, 2007 @05:18AM from the using-hard-won-knowledge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Web pages have become a major functional component of the daily lives of millions of people. Web developers are in a position to make that part of everyone's lives better. Why not try using traditional computer programming and best practices of software engineering?"

Submission + - Google In Aus Federal Court for deceptive conduct (brisbanetimes.com.au)

Submitted by biggles266 on Monday September 10, 2007 @03:53AM

biggles266 writes: Internet goliath Google claims to rank search results by relevance, but the search engine engages in deceptive conduct by selling off the top positions to commercial partners, a Sydney court has heard. The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) is taking world-first legal action in the Federal Court against Google Inc over allegedly deceptive conduct related to sponsored links on its websites. The ACCC has brought a two-pronged case against Trading Post and Google — including subsidiaries Google Australia and Google Ireland — for potentially misleading consumers. The consumer watchdog alleges Google does not do enough to differentiate "organic" search results — those ranked by relevance — from sponsored links which appear at the top of the results page.

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