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In 1999, when the Web was still merely a small part of some people’s lives rather than the behemoth it is today, GeoCities was the third most-visited Web site on the Internet. Today, Oct. 26, 2009, it is being killed off forever, not just decommissioned and archived but actually deleted from the Web altogether. R.I.P. GeoCities – you will be fondly remembered.I cannot remember the date or even year when I first had the pleasure of venturing. Although, in

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Bosses of some of the internet’s best-known websites have called for the Federal Communications Commission to stick to its plans to enforce net neutrality principles. It follows lobbying by 72 Democrat congressmen asking the FCC to go easy on the policy.

The congressmen letter (PDF, via Wall Street Journal), which follows similar feedback from 11 state governors and 18 Republican senators, does not outright condemn net neutrality: the principle that internet carriers should treat all types of traffic (besides illegal content) equally. However, the writers

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As anyone who has ever tried to lose weight will know, it’s not the easiest thing in the world, no matter how much drive and willpower one possesses. Sometimes, something else is required, be it a new way of eating such as The Atkins Diet or an innovative use of technology. Tweet What You Eat does exactly that by utilizing Twitter to help people lose weight effectively.

There are literally thousands of different diets and methods of losing weight out there. There are experts on the subject, shelves worth of books, and tricks and tips by the bucketload that are meant to help you lose weight.

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This paper will show comparisons of search engine results for the search parameters of dissertations written in the field of distance learning from the year of 1990 and greater. The comparisons will cover the following criteria: accuracy of displayed results; the number of relevant results; ranking of results; topicality of results; usefulness of the advanced search parameters. The search engines to be reviewed will be: Google; Bing; Yahoo; AlltheWeb; Alta Vista; Vivisimo; Teoma.

 Google finds the exact words in the search parameters within the Scholar section of Google. If using all of Google, it finds the exact search parameters. The Google Scholar found 53,000. The regular Google found 105,000. Google Scholar ranks according to wording of search with some

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