You've seen them on the Eyewitness Morning News. Over the past twelve months, I've paraded an amazing assortment of utilities, gadgets, and web sites across your screen every Thursday morning on the Eyewitness Morning News. Google reasons that if a lot of pages link to a particular site on a specific topic, that site must be relevant. Consequently, Google gives it higher placement in the results.
Search engines are like prizefighters.
Napster is a tool that allows users to share Mp3 music data files in an online community. Like the argument whether guns are harmful in themselves, the decision to commit copyright infringement with Napster is largely up to the user, but regardless of how the controversy plays out, there's little doubt Shawn Fanning's creation deserves to be on this top ten list. The RIAA's lawsuit against Napster may be a moot point anyway, since distributed serving models Gnutella and Freenet are ready to create communal structures that would be almost impossible to trace. There's no software to buy, but only computers running Windows are supported. You download a small Java applet when you sign up.