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The light at the end of the tunnel may be weak, but you can still find it in this pick of this week’s happenings on the online frontier.
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The Soviets didn’t stop at just making some of the most accurate and detailed maps of the day.
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Once inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are in, what will they use to detect any hijinks?
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So many hacks, so few days in the week to write alarming stories about each one. Here’s our roundup of what you have may missed this week.
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With millions of visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is arguably the most visited torrent site on the Internet, outranking even the notorious Pirate Bay.
After several domain hops KAT has been operating from the KAT.cr domain name for a few months now. However, in recent weeks many infrequent visitors have experienced trouble locating the site, leading to all sorts of problems.
Traditionally, the site has been easy to find through Google by entering the search terms “KickassTorrents” or “Kickass Torrents,” but this is no longer the case.
In fact, the official KAT.cr address is nowhere to be found in the top results. Instead, people see the unknown and unaffiliated Kickasstorrents.eu domain on top in many locations, as the screenshot below shows.
Google’s KickassTorrents search results
The KAT team informs us that Google began to penalize its pages a while ago, for reasons unknown. Perhaps there are ways to solve the problems, but the site is currently not doing any search engine optimization (SEO).
“It’s already about five or six months since we started to experience some kind of penalty from Google. The issue is that we were not performing any SEO activities at all,” KAT says.
What makes matters worse is that .eu site which tops Google search results is a scam. It doesn’t offer any torrents but instead prompts visitors to download File_Downloader.exe, which appears to be malware.
The KAT team finds it unfortunate that Google is sending tens of thousands of visitors to a shady site and encourages people to check the official Facebook and Twitter accounts for the latest official domain name.
Interestingly, not all search engines treat KAT the same. In Bing the site’s official domain name is not on top either, but it’s listed on the first page. DuckDuckGo does the best job, identifying the correct domain and even tagging it as an “official site,” which is quite useful to estranged KAT users.
DuckDuckGo’s KickassTorrents search results
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Gawker pulled a controversial post as the media company navigates a maturing Internet culture that demands higher standards and accountability.
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If you’ve used the online photo services of either of these Canadian sites, check your bank statements.
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Topics this week include the rebirth of the iPod Touch, the ahead-of-its-time Turing Phone, and that strange Commodore handset.
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In what could be the first domino, on-demand housecleaning service Homejoy shuts down after facing a cash shortage and labor lawsuits.
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Google needs to do everything it can to convince companies not to think of Amazon first when they need services in the cloud.
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