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 Do a 30-secs search before you say something you're not sure about!
My morning browsing started with a interesting discovery. Google News is finally available in Greek, covering news from over 100 sites with news in Greek. Curious about when this happened (and I hadnt noticed) I started googling for "news.google.gr" I found this article from a site posting about the expansion of the service.
The funny part was when (hopefully out of ignorance) the author of the article wrote that Google's new service is "familiar in philosophy with Site-x". A statement that can be refuted with a 30-secs search which produces the following results
- Google News is a news aggregating service, indexing thousands of sites in multiple languages, since 2002.
- Site-x is a blog using Wordpress to gather news from other Wordpress blogs using RSS, evolving from a simple blog in 2005
Apparently, the opposite statement is true...
So our tip of day: Do not use un-checked information or exaggerate or (even worse) lie when you post about yourself or your company on the Internet. With each action we take every day (publication of pages on our sites, forum posts, blogs, e-mails, etc) we "spread" an incredible amount of information, which most of the times is out of our control after our action and can easily be checked with a few seconds of search. Even more, this information is available for years to come.
Do a test, search for your full name or the username you regularly use on sites! ;)
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