In September 2011 Santorum asked Google to intervene by altering the indexing of the content, saying, "If you're a responsible business, you don't let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country...To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can't handle but I suspect that's not true."[4] In response to Santorum's request, a Google spokesperson asserted that Google does not "remove content from our search results, except in very limited cases such as illegal content and violations of our webmaster guidelines."[4]
This story strikes me as a kind of keyboard democracy. Its the popularity, interest and linking to this page that is resulting in the high search result. And perhaps some future business for reputation managers out there.
A new smartphone app will help mobilise and co-ordinate volunteers during an emergency or disaster in the future, and it could also prove profitable for Queensland. The Ready Qld app, developed by Volunteering Queensland with assistance from the University of Queensland, is free and serves several purposes, Premier Anna Bligh told reporters yesterday. The application was designed following the unprecedented volunteer response to last year's floods when, within three days, 55,000 people, dubbed the "mud army", turned out in force to clean houses, roads and buildings across the state.Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/app-to-coordinate-disaster-volunte...
Saw "Big tree" in Tasmania and it was mind boggling. 87 metres tall! The tree in this story is 36 metres.
anyone who knows my polaroids knows what this means to me. Must submit some photos.
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