In that e-mail was a share customer number, and a link to the Lloyds TSB registrars website, where shares could be sold, albeit on a conditional basis pending formal acceptance of Egg on to the stock market on 19 June.

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Since Google ranks results based on the number of Web pages that link to them, cyber-criminals added thousands of links to their pages on forums and blog comment sections around the Web, pushing their pages to the top of the search engine's results.

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More recent research, however, has challenged this assertion with a number of studies suggesting the link is either very small or non-existent.

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While the study did indeed identify a striking correlation, researchers were unclear what actually drove this cause-and-effect relationship, with skeptics pointing out that a number of factors may have caused this link which were uncontrolled for in the study.

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As a partner of the LeWeb'11 exhibition, Europe's number one showcase for digital entrepreneurs, Renault has chosen the Parisian show to reveal R-LINK, the tactile, integrated, connected tablet that is poised to equip its forthcoming models.

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