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As you’ll recall, we recently introduced new formats for AdSense ads. This week, we’ve added a new dimension for publishers in customizing these ad formats. You’ve long been able to customize the size and colors of your ad units; now, you can also customize the shape by selecting between square, slightly rounded, or very rounded corners.
To get started with these new ad shapes, visit the ‘AdSense Setup’ tab in your account. As with all format options like sizes and colors, different corner styles will perform better for different publishers. We recommend that you choose the corner style that best matches the look and feel of your sites. Please keep in mind that if your page background color, ad background color, and ad border color are all the same, these new corners won’t be visible.
This new option is part of our ongoing effort to improve the look and feel of our ads. We’re also working to give you even more choices to customize your ad formats while maximizing revenue and user satisfaction. We hope you enjoy the new corner options, whether you choose to go edgy or bubbly.
Authorities are investigating who changed professional wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before police found the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
Benoit’s Wikipedia entry had been updated early Monday to say that the wrestler had been absent from a match two days earlier because of the death of his wife.
A Wikipedia official said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Connecticut, where the World Wrestling Entertainment has its headquarters.
The bodies were discovered in Benoit’s home in Atlanta and Wikipedia said they do not know the origin of the posting. Benoit’s page on Wikipedia was updated just after midnight Monday, around 14 hours before the bodies were found, according to authorities.
The original posting reads,”Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.”
Reporters alerted the Fayette County district attorney’s office of the Wikipedia posting Thursday, and they communicated the information to sheriff’s investigators who are looking into the matter.
On Benoit’s Wikipedia page there is a note that says editing of the entry by unregistered or newly registered users is disabled until July 8, 2007 due to vandalism.
Here is an update to this story.
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Original post by Mike Sachoff and software by Elliott Back
Brian Retkin of domain registrar Dotworlds had been criticized for offering .USA domains for sale and spamming people with sales pitches after September 11, 2001. He has claimed Google’s links to this criticism amounts to defamation.
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If this case were in the US, where search engines and other websites generally can claim no responsibility over third party content, Retkin’s case probably wouldn’t make it out of a lawyer’s office. British law works a little differently.
A report in The Independent said that in Britain, the same legal protection is conditional. If a company does not have notice of a complaint and time to act upon it, they have some insulation from these claims.
Retkin has complained about online postings accusing him of running a fraudulent business appearing in Google’s search results. Though the report said Google claimed to have removed material and blacklisted links to it, a query for ‘Dotworlds registrar’ at press time turned up a mailing list post with those accusations as the top result.
Google’s response made the usual claim that the company is not responsible for the results of a query. "Google has absolutely no connection, control or ability to direct or influence the content of web pages which may be shown as links within any given set of search results," Google’s legal counsel Harjinder Obhi said in the report.
UPDATE: For commentary from Retkin, see our chat with him here.
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Original post by David A. Utter and software by Elliott Back
