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Maybe I’m slow on this - but has anyone else noticed this ‘highlighted quote’ feature before at the top of Google News results? (please excuse the poor reproduction - you get the idea).

I like the way it tells you how many news sources have included the same quote - kind of shows up the […]

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Now I’m as partial to the odd cheeky piece of optimisation as the next digital marketing agency-based journalist, but the lengths to which some news feeds are being stretched is hilarious. Kwik-Fit Insurance News for example, which a colleague alerted me to earlier this week.
So dogged is their determination to rank highly for ‘women’s car […]

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On one of the sites for which Charlie and I write, we also moderate reader comments. Aside from the genuine responses and the occasional shameless plug for people’s own projects, there’s an increasing influx of spam.
Now, I consider myself fairly liberal when it comes to smut, but some of the links in our moderation queue […]

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Dear God I’m addicted to Scrabulous.
For anyone who hasn’t been playing (or reading Charlie Brooker), it’s a Scrabble plugin for Facebook. Except, inasmuch as I can be bothered to find out, it started out as a turn-based email game.
Whatever, our Charlie’s “no Facebook till lunch” note to self is still as apt as a couple […]

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