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Twitter attack affects thousands
Twitter users have been warned not to click links in some tweets, after the microblogging service fell victim to its second phishing attack in a week. Cyber criminals are using the service to trick people in to giving away their username and password for the site. Users have been receiving direct messages from friends on the site which contain a shortened link. When users click on that link, they are directed to a malicious website, which … Read entire article »
Filed under: News and Advice
Yahoo! and the future of search
Yahoo! and Microsoft’s multi-million pound search deal was given the green light last week by both the US and European regulators. The arrangement, which will see Microsoft’s search technology power Yahoo!’s search engine for the next decade, will probably go totally unnoticed by users of both services, as it is no more than back-end tweaking. But what does the union really mean for the future of Yahoo!’s search offering, ambitions and the overall search market? To … Read entire article »
Filed under: News and Advice
Top tips for long-distance cycling
1. Keep it cheap. Expensive bicycles with top-of-the-range parts can be a disadvantage if, for instance, they break in rural Turkey where there’s no hope of finding suitable spare parts. 2. Set off with a little bit too much. You can always sell or give away things en route if the going gets tough. 3. Save yourself the pain. Buy a second-hand saddle that’s already been worn in by someone else. 4. It doesn’t have to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Guides
How Google ranks its search results
Google has offered a general explanation of how it ranks its search results, one day after the European Commission said it was looking into antitrust complaints against the company. In a blog post Thursday, Google Fellow Amit Singhal also referred to a recent op-ed piece suggesting that regulators should control how search engines rank results. He stressed that developing search rankings is very difficult, implying perhaps that regulating search would be hard for any government to … Read entire article »
Filed under: SEO
20 fashionable words in English
1.Mori girl(森女) Mori girl is buzzward originated from a social networking website in Japan two years ago, referring to women in their 20s who pursue a simple and natural lifestyle. Mori in Japanese means “forest” and a Mori girl is a girl who looks like she lives in forests. You might have seen her dressed in earthy colors that attest to an artistic sensibility at one with nature. She’s part Little Red Ridinghood (although she prefers dark … Read entire article »
Filed under: Vocabulary
How Do You Pronounce 2010?
I have been deluged with questions about how to pronounce the name of the year. The two main contenders are “twenty-ten” and “two thousand ten.” Before the turn of the century, most people pronounced the years by chunking the first two numbers together and the last two numbers together. So we had “nineteen fifty,” “nineteen eighty-five,” and so on. After the turn of the century, we started commonly pronouncing the years the long way: “two thousand … Read entire article »
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