Tag: BAN

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Of all the sites a major mobile ISP could block, Verizon has probably picked the worst. Verizon mobile customers have found themselves unable to access 4Chan's infamous prank-filled, NSFW image board, /b/, and the ISP won't say why. 4Chan's founder, Moot, has even been unable to get a straight answer about the block. However, it's been confirmed that this was an intentional move by Verizon. At ...

Like all other music-loving residents of North America, I spend half of every day foaming at the mouth with jealousy over Europe's access to the streaming music service Spotify. Well, now I have at least one university full of Europeans to be a little less jealous of: Oxford University has banned Spotify on campus. Was free, legal music undermining the historic school's educational mission? Nope, ...

At the University of Brighton, Professor Tara Brabazon has taken it upon herself to purge the classroom of the likes of Wikipedia and Google, saying that, "Too many students don't use their own brains enough. We need to bring back the important values of research and analysis." Apparently, the work of students has been "banal" as a result of search engines - which caused her to ban them altogether ...

Search engine optimization (SEO) isn't really my scene, but here's a handy tool if you have a sneaking suspicion that your web site has been banned from Google search results: Google Ban Checker. It's a free Windows app that will take a list of web sites and see if they're indexed by Google. On top of that, it will crawl your site(s) and check all of your outbound links to see if you're linking to ...