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Stole My Son’s Phone? We’ll See About That….

May 2, 2012 by Danny Sullivan

I guess I can add a story to the many out there about someone who tracks down a lost phone using a Find My Phone-type of service. In this case, it was my son’s. I tracked it down to the exact classroom where the kid who took it was sitting. My son calls when he […]

How Search Engines, Aggregators & Blogs Use News Content

November 23, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

Ahead of next week’s FTC workshop on journalism and the internet, I gave an informal briefing to several people from the FTC about the differences between how search engines, aggregators and news blogs all gather content automatically and through human editing. They seemed to find it useful, so I thought I’d share it more widely […]

Access Provider Disk Report

September 10, 1996 by Danny Sullivan

The Access Provider Disk Report was a site run by Danny Sullivan from August 1995 through April 1996 that reported on the disks that online access providers sent to him. What? See, kids, back in the old web days, internet providers sent software disks to build their subscriber base. The disks let you access the “walled […]