don't get me wrong, i suspect this is bs (unless they can prove their rankings were individually affected)
BUT, noone forced google to take money from them for running their ads.. but they did
wendy's and bk couldn't be forced to put mcdonald's ads on their placeholders - but it wouldn't be good business to do so
if they did take money to show mcd's ads and then didn't, that'd be a different story.
thing is, this lawsuit would be hard to prove - it's not like you can walk into the restaurant and just see the placemats
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I think that most astronomers (at least all the ones I know)
Who are you kidding? Who actually knows an astronomer?
don't get me wrong, i suspect this is bs (unless they can prove their rankings were individually affected) BUT, noone forced google to take money from them for running their ads.. but they did wendy's and bk couldn't be forced to put mcdonald's ads on their placeholders - but it wouldn't be good business to do so if they did take money to show mcd's ads and then didn't, that'd be a different story. thing is, this lawsuit would be hard to prove - it's not like you can walk into the restaurant and just see the placemats
"Trusted Computing" ... "DRM" ... "fingerprinting"
the irony is all too overwhelming
The quote should read: "Carnegie Institution has released a 'top 10' list of potential habitable star systems"
...because it can't be inhabitable, if ET lives there.