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Firefox 3 Goes For Guinness World Record - Max Downloads In A Day June 17 - (Found June 18, 2008 )

"All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours..."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/firefox_browser/3673261.htm

How Google Addresses Duplicate Content Due To Scrapers - (Found June 18, 2008 )

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3670477.htm

Yahoo Shareholders Want To Cut Severance Plan - (Found June 18, 2008 )

http://www.webmasterworld.com/yahoo-corp/3671196.htm

Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable To Block Access To Illegal Sites - (Found June 18, 2008 )

"The agreements will affect customers not just in New York but throughout the country."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3671192.htm

A New Way of Applying Trust Rank Understanding the Google Minus Penalties - (Found June 18, 2008 )

"I'm wondering if they signify how Google handles "Trust Rank" where entire sites fall into different minus levels."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3670232.htm

Significant Traffic Changes For Short Search Terms - (Found June 18, 2008 )

"WebmasterWorld members discuss how traffic is changing and explore traffic comparisons with last year to this. Members ask, is the market becoming more search savvy (-subscription required)
http://www.webmasterworld.com/supporters/3669874.htm

Google Trends Comes With Numbers - (Found June 18, 2008 )

"The Internet search leader is expanding its existing Google Trends service to allow users to see underlying numerical data on the popularity of any particular search in Google's vast database of search terms, relative to others."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3672223.htm

Google's Sergey Brin to Book Space Flight - (Found June 18, 2008 )

http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3672215.htm

Google's Eric Schmidt Says, "We don't have an 'Evilmeter" - (Found June 18, 2008 )

"Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on Wednesday detailed his theory of competition in the Web industry while saying Google's famous mantra of "Don't be evil" is often misunderstood."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/goog/3672834.htm

Russia's New President Medvedev Wants Cyrillic Internet Domain - (Found June 18, 2008 )

"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for Russia to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script on Wednesday as part of a Kremlin drive to promote Russian as a global language."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/domain_names/3672841.htm