In other words, it may be that the search engines are reflecting society's own prejudices - as the advertising results Google serves up are often based on the most popular links previous users have clicked on.
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This gem, however, traded in a nether region of the investing world called the OTC Bulletin Board, a newly popular electronic service that links marketmakers in the shares of small companies.
The business is barely break-even, but the service links customers to nearby Popular branches so that customers might open savings and checking accounts.
The move to revive commercial air and rail links follows the restoration of a popular bus service between Delhi and Lahore last summer.
He dropped out of Stanford University and founded a startup, Infogami, that was acquired by Reddit, a site where readers post links to articles and the most popular rise to the top of the page.
The software, originally spread through classic methods such as spam, has moved on to more sophisticated attacks by providing links to infected web sites through popular social media content such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, by feeding a corrupted advertisement into an ad network for web sites, and by poisoning search results called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning.
Schwartz says that the popular sites whose pagerank dropped Wednesday likely all sold links to earn extra revenue.
Investorama, one of America's most popular financial websites, alone boasts over 4, 300 hypertext links to other sites.
Back in September, Facebook closed its acquisition of Instagram, the uber-popular and quickly growing mobile online photo sharing social network with links to Facebook and Twitter.
Digg is by far the greatest source of links and traffic among social media sites: A popular story on the site gets as many as 100, 000 unique visitors.
Music, for instance, offers Zune Xbox Music Pass subscribers quick links to new releases, a top 100 playlist and popular music videos.
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The app I created took statistics from the gazillions of bit.ly links shared on Twitter and figured out which news stories were most popular on the web at any given moment.
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Looking at the most popular tracks is a great way to find new music, and each song links to different ways to purchase the music and various ways to share the song on social media.
Before the change, when people searched for "cameras, " for example, the top-five most popular cameras from the shopping page often would appear underneath a few search-results links.
Of course, one of the most popular shorteners in the world is the widely used bit.ly, which creates millions of links to content every single day.
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After developing an easy-to-use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) App that links to Google (GOOG) Mail, his Insightly is one of the most popular ones on the planet.
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Gracenote MusicID identifies songs and also facilitates direct links for apps to songs and artists in iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and other popular services.
Apple's stylish iPod is the most popular digital player, with more than 4.5m sold in the last quarter of 2004 alone, and it links seamlessly with Apple's music-download service, iTunes, which sells more than 1m songs every day.
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