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Interesting resource plus gator/countryliving gardener

These two bits of interesting news were taken from the writenews.com newsletter. This newsletter is a good one for publication industry info including sales stats etc.

I included the gator data because many people have installed gator and don't know its capacities and tendency to control those annoying popups. :-)

Doug


Country Living Gardener magazine has laid off about ten employees, including the Editor in Chief. Frequency will be reduced to quarterly from bimonthly. Source: AdAge.com 5-22-03

Harvard Study Discovers Gator Secrets
A Harvard study on Gator's spyware software has uncovered that the software does allow a company to place pop-up ads that will be displayed after or during a user's visit to competing websites. Gator also targets search engines and shows pop-up ads when users enter a particular keyword or phrase. Gator's pop-ups only show for web surfer's that have downloaded its software. However, not everyone who has Gator downloaded it intentionally -- Gator has been accused in the past of hiding its software in the downloads of other software. Experts have also said that Gator's software can be difficult to remove once it has been installed. Source: News.com, WWForums Pop-ups Discussion 5-16-03


Doug Green,

Your gardening questions answered http://www.gardening-tips-perennials.com
Syndicated gardening columnist, award-winning author


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