links for 2008-10-28

"I don’t know why I did it, I guess I was just bored, but for some reason I decided to Google the term: blog to see what kind of results I would get. WordPress, TypePad or any other blog publishing platform is not mentioned on the first page results. In fact, the top ten results for the term blog have three instances that promote or have an direct affiliation with Google."

"When one of the big guys competes with Twitter, they will do everything Twitter does, compatibly".

"Edelman, however, disagrees. And, now, he's actually suing Google for allowing AdSense ads to be placed on 'typosquatter; domains. This lawsuit seems like a longshot. As has been seen in numerous lawsuits over AdSense and trademarks, suing Google is trying to put liability on the wrong party."

From the "d'oh the algorithmanity' files - this story about Google serving up anti-gay adverts on a gay community sites is accompanied by an AdSense advert asking "Are gays going to hell".

"'Fury after obscene call to TV Manuel,' the Sun spluttered today as it reported Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's calls to Andrew Sachs, in which the pair joked about Brand sleeping with the Fawlty Towers star's granddaughter Georgina Baillie. So enraged, in fact, that it dug out a topless picture from 2005 of Georgina auditioning for Page 3. The Daily Mail's website also got in on the act, showing its outrage at the telephone calls by publishing large pictures of Georgina in different scantily clad poses."

"More than 1,500 people have now complained to the BBC about a series of obscene messages left on actor Andrew Sachs' answerphone and broadcast on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show."

"Sach's agent Meg Poole said that she had emailed and written to the BBC to complain about the calls but the BBC insisted it had not received a complaint about the incident. The broadcaster said that, after the programme, it received two complaints unrelated to the phone calls".