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Monday, June 03, 2024

“Donald Trump, Felon” - Huge Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm

My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity? 


Millennials are giving pricey capital cities like Sydney and Melbourne the flick and leading the exodus to regional areas. The trend, which gained momentum during the pandemic, is continuing to be fuelled by high house prices and cost-of-living pressures.

The number of city-dwellers moving to the regions has hit a 12-month high, the latest Regional Movers Index from Commonwealth Bank and the Regional Australia Institute (RAI) found. Relocations surged in the first quarter of this year and are now sitting 20 per cent above the pre-pandemic average.

Sydney is losing the most people, accounting for 67 per cent of those who moved from the capitals to the regions over the year to March. This was followed by Melbourne, which made up 30 per cent.

Young Aussies abandon Sydney, Melbourne in major ‘societal shift’



Masters of War: In search of the new world order in Munich Harpers 


These Factors Could Be Behind The Military’s Shockingly High Suicide Rates ScienceAlert 


Americans Are Paying Billions to Take Drugs That Don’t Work Mad in America

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Rinsed by Geoff White — how Silicon Valley wizardry helps launder dirty cash

A riveting look at not only the nuts and bolts of cons and crimes but the techniques detectives use to stalk cyber criminals


Go-Getters Get Going At 5 A.M.: The Power Move Of Working The 5-To-9 Before The 9-To-5



MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said on air, “He became the first president ever convicted of a felony. And then seconds later, the first president ever convicted of two felonies. Then every few seconds for a few minutes thereafter, he kept breaking his own brand-new old record for the most crimes any American president had ever been convicted of.”

Trump guilty on all counts: breaking down the media coverage of the historic trial

Despite the lack of cameras in the courtroom, the on-screen guilty counters and reports from the trial painted a vivid picture of a historic moment.

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Huge Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm

Search Engine Land: “A trove of leaked Google documents has given us an unprecedented look inside Google Search and revealed some of the most important elements Google uses to rank content. 

What happened. Thousands of documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were released March 13 on Github by an automated bot called yoshi-code-bot. These documents were shared with Rand Fishkin, SparkToro co-founder, earlier this month…

Why we care.We have been given a glimpse into how Google’s ranking algorithm may work, which is invaluable for SEOs who can understand what it all means. In 2023, we got an unprecedented look at Yandex Search ranking factors via a leak, which was one of the biggest stories of that year. This Google document leak? It will likely be one of the biggest stories in the history of SEO and Google Search…”

The Verge: “Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real. Until today, the company refused to comment on the authenticity of the trove of documents.”


NASA Welcomes Slovakia As New Artemis Accords Signatory