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Google To Create Sea Worthy Data Centers

DuPont Fabros, Datacenters, And Power Problems

Homeowners appreciate not having power lines all around them, and it turns out that the owners of datacenters feel the same way.  Only datacenters need a lot of energy, so in Northern Virginia, DuPont Fabros is kind of stuck.

Online Or Off, Star Power Overrated

Getting an A-list blogger to endorse your product isn't all it's cracked up to be, according to new research. And, according to another research paper, getting celebrities to endorse political campaigns can backfire.

SES Round-up

Jolina and Mike had a great time at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago. Not only is it the windy city, but a festive, cold and snowy one too by the sounds of it.

Google Reader Taps Power Of Blogsearch

New features from Google Reader include a process that recommends blogs potentially of interest to the user, based on subscribed feeds and one's Web History.

Google Not Perfect With Duplicate Content

Think Google is a good as they would have you believe they are about detecting duplicate copy, then take a look here [fireproof safe with power]. Since result two links to result one I’d say result two is probably the original and Google got it wrong.

Market Research Continues to Move Online

A few months ago, I wrote about online panels, and I am finding more and more marketers moving their market research online.

Rackspace Wrecked By Wayward Truck Driver

Plenty of popular websites suffered a couple of hours of unanticipated downtime when a truck hit a transformer and took down Rackspace's Dallas datacenter.

Yahoo Diversifies Into Wind And Hydro Power

A search engine company has become involved with wind turbines in India and a hydropower project in Brazil.  Now, want to hear the really surprising part?  It’s Yahoo, not Google, that is behind the environmentally friendly effort.

Dogpile Outranking Google

J.D. Power and Associates rated Dogpile with the highest rank in customer satisfaction among search engines for the second year in a row.