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Comment consider the Pagerank important (Score 2, Interesting) 86

by voodoosws on Saturday May 24, 2008 @10:00AM (#23527336) Attached to: Google Opens Up (Some) Search Algorithms

Accordingly, we must still consider the Pagerank important because it is the only part of the algorithm which we know and we know how to raise it. This is for all those who thought they no longer served the Pagerank for positioning in search engines.

YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos 676

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 20, 2008 @06:16PM from the how-the-interwebs-work dept.

hhavensteincw writes "YouTube has declined a request from Sen. Joe Lieberman remove videos from terrorist organizations. Lieberman said that the videos made by groups like Al-Qaeda show assassinations, attacks on US soldiers leading to injuries and death, and weapons training, 'incendiary' speeches, and other material intended to 'encourage violence against the West.' YouTube said that while it removed some of the videos highlighted by the Senator, most were allowed to stay because they did not violate YouTube's community guidelines. YouTube went on to note that they are strong supporters of free speech."

Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles 238

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 15, 2008 @11:44AM from the that-time-of-year dept.

voodoosws points out on Mark Shuttleworth's blog Shuttleworth's call for synchronized publication of Linux distributions, excerpting: "There's one thing that could convince me to change the date of the next Ubuntu LTS: the opportunity to collaborate with the other, large distributions on a coordinated major / minor release cycle. If two out of three of Red Hat (RHEL), Novell (SLES) and Debian are willing to agree in advance on a date to the nearest month, and thereby on a combination of kernel, compiler toolchain, GNOME/KDE, X and OpenOffice versions, and agree to a six-month and 2-3 year long term cycle, then I would happily realign Ubuntu's short and long-term cycles around that. I think the benefits of this sort of alignment to users, upstreams and the distributions themselves would be enormous. I'll write more about this idea in due course, for now let's just call it my dream of true free software syncronicity."

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