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Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals – washingtonpost.com Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment by the White House last month adequately [...]

Anyone who doesn’t know the call sign WDRE didn’t live in the Philadelphia area in the 90s. WDRE was a Philly alternative rock station which introduced alot of amazing artists to the area. Regrettably, the media consolidation of the late 90s made WDRE a liability and they changed their format. However, due in part to [...]

Written by Ben D’Angelo, Search Quality TeamFirst, a brief recap: In late 2005, we started emailing webmasters to let them know that their site is violating our Webmaster Guidelines and that we have temporarily removed some of their pages from our inde…

Written by Trevor Foucher, Webmaster Tools TeamI’m happy to announce that Webmaster Tools is expanding support for webmasters outside of the English-speaking world, by supporting Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). IDNA provides a w…

Written by Jonathan SimonAs summer inches towards fall and in many places the temperature is still rising, you’re probably thinking the best place to be right now is on the beach, by a pool or inside somewhere that’s air-conditioned. These are all good…

Posted by John Blackburn, Webmaster Tools and Matt Dougherty, Search Quality We’ve improved Webmaster Central’s robots.txt analysis tool to recognize sitemap declarations and relative urls. Earlier versions weren’t aware of sitemaps at all, and unders…

Great tip from Better Homes and Garden, found by way of Lifehacker. Hanging pictures on a blank wall can be rough, especially with all of the hit-and-miss involved in aligning your frames and hammering in your nails. Better Homes and Gardens has a tip for getting your wall hangings right the first time so you [...]

According to the associated press, people in 41 countries are living longer than we are. A baby born in the United States in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years. That life expectancy ranks 42nd, down from 11th two decades earlier, according to international numbers provided by the Census Bureau and domestic numbers from [...]

Written by Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Anti-Malware TeamIn the past year, the number of sites affected by malware/badware grew from a handful a week to thousands per week. We noted your suggestions to improve communication for webmasters of affected sites …

If you’ve ever called a customer support number and were stuck navigating through endless messages then the Gethuman website is just for you. The Gethuman database contains a list of company phone numbers and – more importantly, the instructions for bypassing the phone system to speak with a human. Powered by ScribeFire. Technorati Tags: Productivity, [...]