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    Magister: Why would or should Twitter care, if someone could easily hack into your twitter account. I admit that I only use Twitter relatively sparingly, but o... more »
    econdave: abc123 Tito is bumming. more »
    DennyCrane: No. 22 (abgrtyu) seems sort of difficult, no? I'm sort of surprised. more »
    badasscat: Wow, there are a lot more fans of the film Victor/Victoria out there than I thought. more »
    homoviper: 40 & 41 are the same: asdfgh so bad they had to ban it twice? more »
    OMG! Ponies!: Thank goodness they didn't ban "Sugartits". I've been using that for all my accounts. more »
    kremlin-king: Can someone explain the difference between #19 and #20 I've stared at it for a while and can't figure it out. more »
    Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan: nice to see that "Pencil" still remains secure as ever. more »
    shostakobitch: I didn't see "8=====D" on that list. more »
    snugbug: The best password I ever came up with is a Charles Bukowski quote. No way any password-cracking bot can figure out how to combine words like that. I h... more »
    lobstr: Pointless to have a list when they can just encode the backend to bounce back any PW that is not alphanumeric. That would solve the problem. Oh, twi... more »
    Brian Moylan: Both "iloveyou" and "lovers" are on the list. What is Carrie Bradshaw to do! more »
    Botswana Meat Commission FC: 171. Jenkem more »
    Smitros: But not Rockwell? Hm. more »
    ethanhein:   more »
    Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The very list they used to crack the GSM encryption! more »
    BlowJoy: #216 and #217 means people just really love monkeys. more »
    Swifter: They forgot Julia Allison's password, cupcake, and Denton's, 23skidoo. more »
    TheSometimesWhy: I long for the good old days when a tweet was merely a bird's song.... more »
    Shadowlayer: I dont see why google has to buy this half-assed company thats only relevant to a few parts of the US and not that popular at all. A google version, ... more »
  • #crime

    Legendary Valley Escort Ordered To Lay Around House

    Cristina Warthen, who worked her way through Stanford Law as an escort and later pled guilty to tax evasion, has been sentenced to one year home detention and ordered to pay $243,000 in back taxes and fines. More »
  • #search

    Why Pamela Anderson can't beat Google

    Remember AltaVista? The search engine, long swallowed up by Yahoo, once hired professional trashy babe Pamela Anderson to win our affections. What that terrible TV ad tells us: TV ads don't build Web brands.
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  • #search

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  • #sextrade

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  • #earnings

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  • #acquisitions

    Ask.com buys reference site Lexico

  • #captioncontest

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  • #chadrickbaker

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  • #dontbelatino

    Google doesn't care about Mexican people

  • #search

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  • #valleywagmascot

    Chadrick loves helping Diana Furka launch tech blog Oddistry.com

  • #strategery

    You're not the only one confused about Ask; so are employees

  • #exits

    Barry Diller: I could be gone in a week

  • #thechart

    While bloggers fret, Google's market share grows larger

  • #layoffs

    Ask.com cuts jobs, targets housewife demographic

  • #videogames

    Search isn't working, so Diller tries another flooded market

  • #iac

    Ask.com layoff whispers grow yet louder

  • #rumormonger

    Layoff rumors stir the herd at Ask.com

  • #stats

    Google up, Yahoo down in U.S. search share

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