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WHAT a disgusting disgrace! Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google. A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. According to a court document in the case, in August [...]

One of the biggest complaints I have with search engines is that a LOT of the material I get is dated. I am constantly searching for news, current events, and forum help postings, and it is SO frustrating to get stories from 2007, 2008, and even earlier. And there doesn’t seem to be any way [...]

Bing is the new search engine, released by Microsoft. I’ve been reading about it but I never checked it out thoroughly until today. It’s so great to see Google get some really healthy competition, and I had high hopes that Bing just do that… but there’s a caveat to Bing. CNet did a nice review [...]

Ever wonder where it “all” happens? I found this really neat video about Google’s vast data center base, located in Mountain View, California. This is the Google-released video of their data centers tour. The guy speaks like he’s is from Upstate New York. Hm. The next video is a compilation of photos with an independent [...]