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Google now lets TechCrunch pretend we don't exist [Toogle Many Googlers]

With a name like SearchWiki, you know it's going to be clever, yet stupid. Google has spent ten years and I don't know how many hundred million dollars refining a rocket-science algorithm for ranking Internet search results. Now, a few Google coders have whipped up a feature that lets you boost o...

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Valleywag — 23 hours ago

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How Ashton Kutcher killed a startup guy's Hollywood dream [Ooma]

It was a fantasy left over from the last boom: Hire a movie star to pitch your startup, and the dusting of tinsel will turbocharge sales. Those William Shatner ads sold plane tickets for Priceline, right? But the career of hard-partying entrepreneur Andrew Frame did not follow that script. We hea...

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Valleywag — 23 hours ago

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Live from the Herbst Pavilion, it's ... YouTube? [Valleywag Calendar]

What, someone's hiring? Fixya, which is doling out the free food at Lunch 2.0 today, is hiring. Grab a bite and a job. Tomorrow indulge your YouTube habit. Your favorite timesuck is streaming live from the Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Watch the new product launch/party featurin...

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Valleywag — 23 hours ago

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Cisco kills Christmas [Meltdowns]

"There should be no Business Group, Technology Group or Business Unit-funded holiday parties." That's the extra bullet through the heart in an email being sent around Cisco. I've screencapped only part of it, because I promised not to provide any pointers to my leaker. Here's the ASCII ...

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Valleywag — 23 hours ago

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Abraham Biggs's webcam suicide note [Sad]

Last week, a 19-year-old young man in Florida killed himself live on the Internet, broadcasting the event by connecting a webcam in his bedroom to Justin.tv, a lifecasting site. Viewers who tuned in and egged Abraham Biggs on, presuming it was a prank, were shocked to see police arrive on the sce...

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Valleywag — Yesterday

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Verizon employees snooped on Obama's cellphone account [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

It wasn't his BlackBerry, it was a non-smartphone. But Verizon has confirmed that several employees used their access to view President Change's private records for a cellphone account. Verizon's spin is that the account had been inactive for several months, and the phone didn't have email or dat...

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Valleywag — Yesterday