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Google removes German BMW from search results

Monday, February 6, 2006 The search engine Google announced the removal of the official German BMW web site from its search results today. Google is reported to have removed the website due to the use of a trick to raise its website ratings in the search engine's results. The online version of Forbes magazine reported that the German word for used car, Gebrauchtwagen, appeared 42 times in a doorway web page created by the German car manufacturer. Doorway web pages contain many keywords designed to attract search robots. The page presented to Google's robot for indexing was

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What Are The Benefits Of Buying A New Home?

Click Here To Know More About: Home Builder Toowoomba QLD Best Home Builders In Toowoomba byAlma Abell In your search for a hew home, you are bound to come across tons of foreclosure properties and distressed homes. While these are ripe for the picking and come a lot cheaper than newly built homes, they also come with a lot of work attached. This is why many people are finding it advantageous to purchase newly built homes. The Benefits of Buying a New Home are numerous. If you have even been considering having a new home built, this information can help you make

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White House accepts judicial review of NSA eavesdropping

Thursday, July 13, 2006 The US President George W. Bush agreed to sign a bill that would allow for a limited judicial review of the National Security Agency's controversial eavesdropping program, said the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R). A White House spokeswoman also confirmed the same. Sen. Specter said that the bill will clear the way for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to "consider the program as a whole and to make a decision on it." Under the "Terrorist Surveillance Program", NSA conducts surveillance on international a

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Investigation into US Airways river ditching in New York completed

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has completed its investigation into the ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 into New York's Hudson River. The fifteen-month probe began after the Airbus A320 performed a water landing when bird strikes damaged both engines in a move dubbed the "Miracle on the Hudson" by the media. Nobody was killed. The NTSB's final report, adopted after a board meeting today, concluded that a combination of safety equipment better than the mandatory minimums and good reactions by the crew were the main reas

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Jeff Jones resigns as president of Uber

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 Jeff Jones, president of ride-sharing company Uber Technologies, announced his resignation on Sunday. Jones was hired last October to helm the company that is known for their ride-sharing application, Uber, which has a reported 40 million monthly users. Recently in Jones's presidency of Uber, the ride-sharing company was involved in numerous controversies surrounding an alleged culture of sexism at the company, stemming from allegations blogged by Susan Fowler, a former Uber engineer, claiming sexual harassment against her and other women working

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Canada’s Don Valley West (Ward 25) city council candidates speak

Friday, November 3, 2006 On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward's councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto's ridings is Don Valley West (Ward 25). Three candidates responded to Wikinews' requests for an interview. This ward's candidates include John Blair, Robertson Boyle, Tony Dickins, Cliff Jenkins (incumbent), and Peter Kapsalis. For more information on the election, read Toronto municipal election, 2006.

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‘Piano Man’ speaks and is identified, returns home to Germany

Tuesday, August 23, 2005 The man known as just the 'Piano Man' has left the hospital where he was staying and has returned home to his native Germany. He has finally spoken after four months of silence. It turns out, according to British tabloid The Daily Mirror, that the man, aged 20, was from Germany but after losing his job in Paris, traveled to the UK through the Channel Tunnel. He was going to commit suicide when he was found by police on a Kent beach. He refused to talk to authorities due to his distressed state. It appears that he had formerly worked with mental pa

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Wikinews interviews New Zealand Paralympic skier Adam Hall

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Recently, Wikinews spent time with with New Zealand Paralympic skier Adam Hall who was at Copper Mountain, Colorado for the IPC Nor-Am Cup. ((Wikinews)) We're interviewing famous Kiwi Paralympic legend Adam Hall, Paralympic skier. What classification are you? Adam Hall: An LW1. ((WN)) LW1. So you are a standing skier? Adam Hall: Stand up skier. ((WN)) And how does a Kiwi end up skiing? Because it's not known as the world's greatest country for skiing. Adam Hall: Oh, actually we have quite a lot of good resources down in New Zealand for

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Microsoft to track legal marijuana with new partner Kind Financial

Sunday, June 19, 2016 Microsoft announced on Thursday they are partnering with KIND Financial to help governments track the production and distribution of legal marijuana. Kind Financial, a California-based start-up company, began selling its Agrisoft Seed to Sale software three years ago. Microsoft is admitting Kind's software on the Government portion of its Azure cloud service. Although Kind Financial CEO David Dinenberg stressed to The Guardian they "absolutely do not touch the plant", his company does business with growers and distributors of marijuana, as well as the