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Digg announced a seemingly small, but rather interesting change on its blog today: It has added a “rel=nofollow” tag to every link on the site that it doesn’t trust. What this means is that all the spammers who submit their stories to Digg, are now basically out of luck.

Sure, all spammer who submit...

Google (GOOG) is very close to bringing movie rentals to YouTube, reports the WSJ.

The new service would compete with products from Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Netflix (NFLX).

Google is so close to launching the new service that it scheduled a 10,000 employee, three month test of the product...

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Even though Gmail is down, you can still get your email. Here's how you can check your Gmail:

1. Just go to igoogle.com and log in with your gmail password.
2. Look at the series of boxes on the site. Your gmail is probably in the second column from the left, one block down.

If...

When Gmail went down today, it caused more than a minor panic. People, like me, who use Gmail as their primary email couldn’t get much work done. There’s nothing like an outage to make you realize how much you rely on something.

So what happened exactly? Isn’t Gmail supposed to have multiple points...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- It's not a surprise, perhaps, that "John Hughes" and "Inglourious Basterds" were breakout search terms on Google (GOOG) in the past month or so.

What is surprising: While searches related to movies, games, music, TV and celebrities account for a big percentage of traffic to...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- It will be at least nine months -- and probably closer to a year -- before Microsoft takes over Yahoo's search infrastructure, theoretically consolidating 28% of the U.S. search market and mounting the first credible challenge on Google in a decade.

But it's not too early for...

Finding restaurants, learning recipes, hunting down local food, eating with a conscience, feigning culinary expertise, and everything else food -- there's an app for that.

On August 27, 2009, Facebook announced plans to further improve people’s control over their information and enable them to make more informed choices about their privacy. These improvements will include new notifications, additions to Facebook’s Privacy Policy, and technical changes designed to give...

Everyone knows that Facebook has become absolutely massive, but it’s easy to lose sight of just how big a number like 250 million is. Buzzpoint, a social media marketing firm based out of Los Angeles, has put together an impressive visualization that shows off just how large Facebook has grown. The company...