Countries are ranked on "perception" of corruption because statistical collection of illegal activities "are deliberately hidden and only come to light through scandals, investigations and prosecutions, " the Transparency Index web site says.
The 15-person staff at Craig's List, the popular community message board, acts as a rapid response team to keep people from harassing each other by name before one of the 150 search engines that index the site grabs the offending page.
The second problem in the new privacy settings is that Facebook is letting search engines index content from the site.
This module offers six headline stories from local news sites and a link through to the news index from the same site.
Distinguishing between legitimate and paid links embedded in text is practically impossible, especially on the scale of Google's massive index of every Web site.
Finally the site returned to Google's main index last June, though Jhalani has no way of knowing just what finally caused Google's algorithm to forgive him.
But he does know that his site has been condemned to the supplemental index, a dreaded backwater region of Google search results that goes by another name in online marketing circles: Google Hell.
Google recognizes the Web's power to publicize and offers Web masters a simple interface to remove their own pages from its index. (Type "remove" into Google to get started.) Other preventive measures include putting sensitive info behind password-protected walls and attaching so-called robot files to Web sites that tell search engines not to index a particular page or site.
The Internet Activity Index (IAI) at the Online Publishers Association site has historically monitored category shifts in traffic month to month.
The small-cap index remains above the 700 mark, which is the site of its 60-month moving average (equivalent to a five-year moving average).
These data are available through a site called Google Trends, which allows anyone who cares to do so to download an index of the aggregate volume of searches for particular terms or categories.
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