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Matt Cutts:
UI fun: Remove result  —  One request we sometimes hear is for the ability to modify Google results, especially to block unwanted sites.  A few eagle-eyed people may have noticed a user-interface experiment on Google that adds the ability to remove results.  Here's what you'd see.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:   Google Testing Remove Results Feature
hackoff.com:
CHAPTER 1 - MORNING APRIL FOOLS DAY 2003 - EPISODE 3  —  Interview of Donna Langhorne by Detective Cohen (continued)  —  Q: When was the last time you saw the deceased alive?  —  A: When I left the office last night.  His office door was closed but I could hear him talking on the phone.
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software  —  Delay in New Windows Version  —  Drove Giant to Develop  —  Simpler, Flexible Product  —  Engineers Get Trip to 'Bug Jail'  —  REDMOND, Wash. — Jim Allchin, a senior Microsoft Corp. executive, walked into Bill Gates's office …
Federico Biancuzzi / onlamp.com:
RMS: The GNU GPL Is Here to Stay  —  In a recent interview, ESR shocked a lot of people when he said, "We don't need the GPL anymore."  Federico Biancuzzi recently contacted RMS, founder of the Free Software Movement and initial developer of the GNU system (the G in "GLAMP"), to talk about the past …
icwales.icnetwork.co.uk:
Have your say on the News Messageboard Office blunders caused by computer jargon  —  Office workers are baffled by computer jargon and make serious business blunders because they see 'IT speak' as a foreign language, a survey has revealed.  —  Among office workers 26% aren't sure …
Edward W. Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Google Print, Damages and Incentives  —  There's been lots of discussion online of this week's lawsuit filed against Google by a group of authors, over the Google Print project.  Google Print is scanning in books from four large libraries, indexing the books' contents, and letting people do Google-style searches on the books' contents.
Discussion: Infothought
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William Patry / The Patry Copyright Blog:
Google Revisited  —  On Tuesday, The Authors Guild filed suit …
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Friday's essentials from Silicon Valley  —  Lot of developments to report, so here's a smorgasbord:  —Socialtext wins SAP's backing: SocialText, the Palo Alto wiki and social software company, has finally scored more backing, this time from software giant SAP — more on this later.
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Microsoft Company Meeting 2005  —  (Updated: reposted with Post-Company Meeting immediate reactions.)  —  Pre Company Meeting  —  So I'm getting ready for the Microsoft Company Meeting, ready to get to campus early and jump on a bus and get my morning box lunch, feeling deep sympathy …
Discussion: Scobleizer and Microsoft Weblog
Dan / PSP Sony PlayStation Portable:
2.0 Overflow Found and Working  —  We have received an email from someone named 'foo bar' with a file made by unknown, which allows a buffer overflow to be run via the photos menu in Sony PSP firmware v2.0.  Although it is not currently possible to run homebrew code with this exploit, the door is wide open for the future.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Gadgetophile
Gizmodo, The Gadget blog:
Step Right Up For Gizmodo Comments  —  One of the best things about Gizmodo is that it is self-correcting.  In those extremely rare instances when I get something wrong, say eight times per day, a smarter and often more foul-mouthed reader sends a tip to set the record straight.
Discussion: Blog Tips and TurboBlogger.com
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
eBay Overbid  —  That happens sometimes in auctions but Skype would have been overpriced for eBay at half the price.  (Full disclosure: I envy and admire the Skype team).  Skype did manage to create a huge amount of value in a short amount of time.  Meg Whitman is usually both strategically …
Discussion: A VC and Clickety Clack
BBC:
Net takes power from music's big four  —  The internet has fundamentally changed the relationship between music's so-called "big four" labels, independents and consumers, industry analysts have said.  —  Seventy per cent of the world's music market is controlled by four companies - EMI, Warner, SonyBMG and Universal.
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Google branches out into television  —  Search me why  —  GOOGLE is apparently branching out into television.  —  A few bloggers have apparently seen an advertisement for a full time project manager for GoogleTV in Mountain View.  —  According to the blogs the job called …
Discussion: Engadget

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