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| UK Survey Shows Public Expects Google To Remain Search Leader |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 10:21 am |
| Tags: Google Outside Us |
| An online survey of approximately 1,100 people in the UK commissioned by bigmouthmedia found that 61% of respondents believed that Google would still be the leading search engine in five years. When asked "Do you want Google to be the leading search engine in five years time?" the response was somewhat different, with a smaller majority (53%) |
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| Got Milk? |
| Published: July 5, 2007, 11:09 am |
| Tags: Outside The Church |
| I stop at Speedway convenience stores several times a week. When I drove in this morning, I noticed a mini-van, luggage carrier on top, sitting at the gas pumps; it had New Jersey plates. I thought about families vacationing together, and visiting family in Indiana for the 4th if July. Such pleasant images. Well, it wasn't the case when I walked |
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| Rosie Discusses Whoopi’s Hiring on her Blog |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:10 pm |
| Tags: Celebrities, T V, Rosie O Donnell, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Pretty On The Outside, Rosie Odonnell, The View, Whoopi Goldberg |
| David from Pretty on the Outside’s latest rendering or how Rosie O’Donnell’s blog is likely to look now that ‘The View‘ has hired Whoopi Goldberg to replace her. |
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| Pregnant Jailbird Nicole Richie |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 8:10 pm |
| Tags: Celebrities, Nicole Richie, Celebrity Arrests, Baby, Celebrities, Celebrity Baby, Diane Sawyer, Illustration, Joel Madden, Poto, Pregnancy, Pregnant, Pretty On The Outside |
| Another one of David Gilmore’s perfectly hilarious illustrations. Pregnant jailbird Nicole Richie looking rather hot in her stripes. More Funny POTO Illustrations Pregnant Jailbird Nicole Richie Rosie Discusses Whoopi’s Hiring on her Blog Lindsay Lohan Freckled Felon (Funny) Paris ‘Lochness Monster’ Hilton Tara Reid Pretty |
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| Google Building Out Non-US Maps Data With Users |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 1:11 pm |
| Tags: Google Outside Us |
| Brady Forrest at O'Reilly Radar reports on Google's GPS-based "crowdsourcing" strategy to get local data on Maps outside the US (specifically in India). While Google has enormous amounts of data for the US and EU, in selected countries there's much less data to plot on Maps. Accordingly Google is relying on users (e.g., My Maps) to create the data |
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| Finnegan’s Market |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 7:37 pm |
| Tags: Chair, Flea Market, Oka Beach, Finnegan S Market, Outside, Live, Life, Friends, Colin, Montreal, General |
| Colin and I went to Finnegan’s Flea Market today. Colin hates this stuff, but he did it anyways. Because I like them. I’ve been looking for chairs. I’d like to buy 6 different and unique chairs, and refinish them the same. I’ve always loved the look of the different chairs on “Friends” in |
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| FAST Misses Q2 Revenues, Changes Accounting Practices |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 12:24 pm |
| Tags: Search Engines Outside Usa |
| FAST Search & Transfer said that Q2 earnings were off based on a change in accounting practices. The company had formerly booked MOUs (memoranda of understanding) as revenue and that practice has been eliminated. We were informed but have been unable to substantiate that the company's accounting practices are now under investigation. Q2 revenues |
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| Get Physical: Plan a Day Outdoors |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 6:30 am |
| Tags: Get Physical, Plan An Entire Day Outside |
| If you're like most everyone with a 9-5 job, chances are that you spend a good majority of the day breathing the stale air of your office. On the weekend, take advantage of not having to be in the office by forcing yourself to stay outdoors for the entire day. Recruit your husband, boyfriend or best friend to join you so you don't get bored (or |
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| Preventing breast cancer can be as easy as going outside |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 2:35 pm |
| Tags: Breast Cancer, Breastcancer, Inside, Outside, Sun, Tanning, Vitamin D, Vitamind |
| Filed under: Breast Cancer, Environment, Vitamins and nutrientsThough spending time in the sun is generally considered a bad thing as far as skin cancer goes, it can help prevent breast cancer. A study shows that women who stay inside more often are at a high risk for breast cancer than those who spend time outside. What's more, breast cancer is |
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| David Beckham Shirtless and Sassy |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 2:31 am |
| Tags: David Beckham, Sports, D C United, David Beckham, Football, Hollywood, L Galaxy, Pretty On The Outside, Sexy, Soccer, Sports |
| David from Pretty on the Outside with another great caricature. This time featuring the Major League Soccer’s marketing toy that is David Beckham. |
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| Jenna Jameson is so ‘Duckalicious’ |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 1:48 pm |
| Tags: Jenna Jameson, Naked, Nude, Celebrities, Boob Job, Boobs, Brests, Bumpshack, Daffy Duck, David, David Gilmore, Duckalicious, Jenna Jameson, Naked, Nude, Porn, Pretty On The Outside, Pussy, Rack |
| David from Pretty on the Outside’s latest creation claims just how ‘duckalicious’ Jenna Jameson and Daffy Duck are together. The ever thinning Jameson was spotting looked a bit like Skeletor on the beach over the weekend. |
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| Qihoo Wins Unfair Competition Suit Against Yahoo China |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 10:05 am |
| Tags: Yahoo Outside Us |
| Qihoo lawsuit win closes chapter in dispute with China Yahoo from Interfax reports Qihoo has won an unfair competition lawsuit against Yahoo China. Yahoo China has to pay Qihoo $9,210 and post an apology on their home page. Click to continue reading... |
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| Google To Buy Chinese Companies To Compete Better In China |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 4:20 pm |
| Tags: Google Outside Us |
| Google Increases Stake in China from PC World reports that Google will be investing heavily in China over the next couple years to try to take market share from Chinese search leader, Baidu. Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google China, said, Over the next year, Google will acquire one or two companies in China, and invest in four to five companies." |
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| Heckuva Job, Goodie |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 12:34 pm |
| Tags: Terry Long, Justin Strelzyk, Julian Bailes, Football Dementia, Worker Safety, Chris Nowinski, Dr Bennet Omalu, Andre Waters, Roger Goodell, Concussions, Mike Webster, Outside The Lines |
| This past Sunday, the typically outstanding Outside the Lines devoted its program to a discussion of concussions and their potential impact on dementia and suicide, specifically focusing on the NFL. This is not the first time OTL has reported on this story and, as I mentioned in criticizing a recent Michael Farber piece in SI, the issue has |
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| This Morning on OTL: Why, Ms. Hill, Why! |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 11:20 am |
| Tags: Michael Vick, Jemele Hill, Racial Bias, Espn, Sports Media, Outside The Lines, Racism |
| Just a tidbit (sorry, J) for today. On Outside the Lines this morning ESPN’s Jemele Hill was on a panel with Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Dr. Todd Boyd, professor at USC and ESPN.com Page 2 columnist. The topic of discussion on OTL’s first segment? Why Michael Vick, of course. I have to admit, I didn’t |
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