<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, webpronews]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, webpronews]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/webpronews http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/webpronews <![CDATA[NY Times 'Google bomb' Was 3 Days Behind WebProNews]]> As reported early this morning on Valleywag, the NY Times did a half-ass job covering Google bombing of GOP candidates by liberal blog, MyDD (Direct Democracy). WebProNews writer Jason Miller emailed Valleywag to tell us he had covered this story almost 4 days ago. NY Times reporter Tom Zeller, Jr. did not cite WebProNews in his article with the standard "As first reported in...". Perhaps bloogers should Google bomb NY Times with the phrase 'Thieving Hack*'?

Dems To Set Off Election Google Bomb [WebProNews]
Liberals Drop The Google Bomb [Valleywag]
Manipulating Google Data [NY Times]

*This is assuming Valleywag can be knocked out of the #1 slot for 'thieving hack'.

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<![CDATA[AOL creepy user watch, volume 8]]> Marvin Gaye - ValleywagThe tech world continues to condemn AOL's exposure of private search records, then gleefully sift through those records. Here's more of what we've found digging through AOL's garbage.

  • AOL users don't know shit about search. Pretty much every user entered at least one web address into their search bar instead of their address bar.
  • Also, one user searched for "want to see the new gm. site," thinking that if he asked nicely, maybe AOL would finally return a decent search result. That was User 21319088, who also searched for "bill gates," "chess" (over twenty times) and "hot girls." Judging by later searches for "Marvin Gaye" and "Al Green," he may have actually scored.
  • A reader found User 16536165, who spent two evenings searching for naked kids (which, frankly, is getting cliched. The world needs a new horrific sexual perversion).
  • Journo Jason Lee Miller wins at AOL coverage by writing the following paragraph in WebProNews:
    We might conclude that User C is a teenager heavily into the urban scene, as many of his searches focus on financing gold and diamond teeth, information on how to become a rapper, female buttocks, gang pop culture, car hydraulics, and how to roll a "blunt."
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