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Google to Build Massive Undersea Internet Cable Across the Pacific Ocean

Project Unity cable – a plan by Google to build a massive, undersea Internet cable across the Pacific ocean, was outed this week as sharp-eyed Google watchers pieced together clues which lead to the discovery of the Unity cable project.

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Hotmail Down Yet Again – Third Time in Three Months

For the third time in as many months, Hotmail is down, and users across the country cannot get to the Hotmail servers to read and retrieve their email. Users across the world are flocking to our site, searching for information and help with queries such as “hotmail down”, “hotmail down?”, “hotmail is down”, “is hotmail down”, “is hotmail down?”, “hotmail servers down”, “hotmail down today”, “hotmail servers”, and “hotmail outage”. If this has affected you, then it probably really is time to switch to Gmail or Yahoo.

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Gmail “Message left on server” Message – What it Means

If you use Gmail, it is likely that on occasion you will get an email that says something like ‘Message left on server: “(no subject)”‘ or ‘Message left on server: “Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender”‘, or ‘Message left on server:” followed by some random subject. The message, which comes from “Gmail Team “, will then invariably instruct you that the message “contained a virus or a suspicious attachment. It was therefore not fetched from your account” and that it has “been left on the server.” Here’s what it means.

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Why You Should Switch from Hotmail to Yahoo, AOL, or Gmail

If you must have free email, we strongly recommend switching from Hotmail to another free email service provider such as Yahoo, AOL, or Gmail. We personally recommend either Yahoo or AOL.

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How to Whitelist in Gmail

Now that you’re all set up with your gmail.google.com account, you’re going to want to know how to whitelist something, or how to whitelist someone, in Gmail. It’s not difficult to whitelist with Gmail – in fact, it’s much harder to figure out how to whitelist with Gmail than it is to actually do it! So here’s how to whitelist in Gmail. (P.S. It’s actually mail.google.com, but gmail.google.com will get you there.)

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How to Use Gmail as a Spam Filter for All of Your Email!

Did you know that you can use Gmail as a spam filter? Among Gmail’s many wonderful features, one of the most useful is the incredible spam filtering. I’ve not come across any spam filtering solution that’s as efficient as Gmail’s and there are a number of ways you can take advantage of this free service without having to change your current email address!

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It Doesn’t Take a Google Scholar to Go to Google and Get these Cool Google Gadgets for Everyone from Google.com!

Did you know that Google,com offers more than 600 cool Google gadgets and Google widgets for your use, for free? And you don’t even need to put them on a Google desktop or your Google home page! You can put them on your own website (or put them on a Google homepage and your own website! And it doesn’t take a Google scholar to go to Google and get these cool Google gadgets from Google. com! It’s easy! (By the way, gmodules.com is the Google gadgets domain.)

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How to Set Up Google Adsense Referrals – the New Way to Get Top Paying Google Adsense Payouts

Google Adsense Referrals is a new program with the potential for top paying Google Adsense payouts. The Google Referrals program allows Adsense publishers to hand-pick the Adsense ads that they want to appear on their site, and get paid per action (i.e. sale or sign-up) rather than per click. Setting up your Adsense Referral ads is not hard, but the site is not as straightforward as it could be, so we’re here to help you figure it out.

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Is Flixster a Big Fat Spammer? Are They Accessing Your AOL or Hotmail Address Book? The Answer to at Least One of These is Yes!

Recently I started getting invitations to join Flixster from complete strangers. Obviously, this was spam, but why were these complete strangers sending it to me? And why were they always from AOL and Hotmail? Now people are asking – is Flixstr accessing your AOL and Hotmail contacts list and spamming them in your name?

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Google M for Murder – Google Search Results Help Identify Alleged Murderess

Melanie McGuire is currently on trial for the murder of her husband, William McGuire. And while many people now know that your Google and other search engine searches can be discovered, apparently back in 2004, Melanie McGuire did not. For among the searches that the prosecution has found on her computers – searches which she conducted on the days leading up to the murder – were searches for “instant poisons”, “undetectable poisons”, and “fatal digoxin doses.” And while those alone don’t necessarily prove intent, another search, “how to commit murder” is pretty unambiguous.

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Zooming Google Maps

This week it was discovered that you can zoom Google maps by zooming Google Earth to a degree that you can actually see people’s faces, and lots of other interesting stuff. Zooming Google Maps and zooming Google Earth is possible in several areas, although not in all locations, but finding the locations in which you can zoom Google maps is half the fun. Check out these pictures of camels in Chad and secret of the famed Treasure Island boat in Las Vegas for examples!

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Has Your Gmail Email Disappeared? You’re Not Alone

Over the holidays, many people logged in to their Gmail accounts only to find that their email had vanished. Gone. Nowhere to be found. Their Gmail email had completely disappeared.

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Online Maps and Directions Blamed for Man’s Death in Snowy Oregon

James Kim, his wife Katie, and his two daughters, found themselves snowbound and stranded on Bear Camp Road, between Grants Pass and Gold Beach, Oregon. But were they mislead by an online mapping service such as Google Maps?

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Is Google Eavesdropping? Is it True that Google Can Listen In to Your Room Through Your Computer’s Microphone?

Is Google eavesdropping? Google researchers recently announced a method to allow them to listen in to your life by listening in through your computer’s microphone. Is Google listening? Will they?

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Spammers Use Google URLs in Spam to Trick People

There has been a recent increase in the number of spammers who are using Google URLs in their spam in an effort to trick people. They way they do this is to camoflage their URL so that it looks like a Google URL. After all, nearly everyone knows, recognizes, and trusts Google. How sinister could clicking on something which appears to be a Google search result be?