links for 2008-05-24

"The publishing site - money.co.uk - specifically stated in its terms of service that 'every attempt is made to ensure that the information published is correct and up to date'". It lied and hopefully the FSA will smite them for dodgy linkbait. It lied.

"Today's the day we're supposed to take down the original post. We're not going to, obviously - Danny's still not even received an apology. However I intend to draw a line under the matter. It's been fun but we've made our point."

That oft-quoted 4.2m cameras is apparently "only an out of date guesstimate, made over 5 years ago, but the Labour government Surveillance State has never bothered, or perhaps never dared, to research a more accurate or up to date figure."

"Remember when AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data back in August of 2006? Well, that story is now back in the news...a play has been created around one of those searches, specifically searcher number 927."

The details are a little hazy to me after a brief skim, but basically it appears that on a couple of mortgage calculators, Googlebot is generating new pages by prodding the FORM elements with values, and then indexing the results

"The other mistake people make is thinking that the order of the pages listed when you use the 'site:' operator in the SERP shows the order of importance of those pages".

"Starting today, NewsGator will start recommending stories and feeds for you to read and subscribe to. Using some Harry Potter magic sauce from SenseArray, NewsGator will start showing suggestions based on things other people think are interesting."