And that's the reason why I don't buy apple products. Apple has used many toxic/nature killing compounds in the past as well.

Seven? I could spot 8 seperate google text ad blocks and 3 graphical google ad blocks.

I didn't count ad blocks, just the keyword stuffing with the whole "powered by google" areas

Looks like mahalo is a prime candidate for a google PR = 0 and deletion from the index treatment.

What's keeping them ?

I think vaksel's comment "Mahalo is monetized through Adsense..." at least partly explains it. Other than that, is anyone lodging policy-violation complaints when they find dodgy pages?

Google should simply pull the plug.

Internet users would benefit more from this than pulling the plug from google.cn.

They have 5 adsense blocks on their site, blended into the content. Good luck trying this as well if you are a "small" adsense customer!

when you have more than 5 million uniques, you qualify for Adsense Premium, at that point Google pretty much tailor fits the ads for your site

Thanks for the information!

Yeah, 'regular' adsense publishers have a limit of 3 blocks per page.

They are regulated by the CSSF.

Eurodns

A friend just told me today that he got his iphone stolen by a class mate. He went to the police, gave them the UID of the phone, and he got it back 3 days later.

Apperantly, as he told me, the police contacted apple which gave them the exact position of the mobile phone through the build in gps device, so the police could just pick it up.

"Fill your newspaper with news from around the world, about the news topics you care about."

Using somebody's else copyrighted content and then charging for the newspaper? Good luck with that!

We have explicit partnerships with a large percentage of our content providers. We also have partnerships with some for full text. We continue to reach out to more sources every day - we're not in the business of harvesting feeds without permission.

The whole idea is that we allow people to write, edit, curate and also aggregate content. A simple analogy would be HuffingtonPost. I realize people have strong opinions about HuffPo as well, but that's another debate.

I guess we will be seing baiduu news, baiduu image search, bmail, bdrive sometime soon! :-)

I'd say it's a safe bet that stealing Google's source code wouldn't help much with replicating their datacenter infrastructure.

Baidu already uses Hadoop's HDFS and MapReduce. They also support Hypertable. I would guess that they could probably put "something" together over time.

HDFS and MapReduce have nothing to do with building and maintaining datacenters.