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Cobblestoned said:
Mambo95 said:The team sponsor regrets his night out with Schleck and O'Grady
Thanks, hadn't heard that story, looks like LA tried to force Bertie into a Pedrito 1989!Mambo95 said:Search for Contador Hotel and, unsurprisingly, most of the top hits are about Contador eating beef at his hotel.
Search for Contador Hotel 2009 and the top hit is an interview where Contador mentions the incident (on Steephill.tv).
Cobblestoned said:Parasites are an important link to the food chain, btw.
Anyway, you got the story wrong. But I think you were not yet here when I pointed out which animal I actually am.
I am right up here, watching the hyenas wasting their time with some cadavers and watching them how they wait for the pride lion-king to fall while besmirching his territory. The lion and me never had any problems and we had a good time.
See, hyenas can't climb.
If they wait for me down on the ground with their gang - I have more time than them and have a good supply or I can eat some birds up here.
But if I want to and if there are not too much of them, i go down and get one of them if they don't run too fast, so that I would waste energy.
I don't eat them because they taste awful.
Just for fun and because I don't like their ordinariness and yellowness.
Sometimes their whining disturbs my sleep or they are ruining my nice view over the landscape.
Dr. Maserati said:Thats the point - the mockup 'Lambstrong' t-shirt was not for sale - it was a joke between two people on a blog in the UK.
BotanyBay said:I've read precisely two published articles that mention or allude to his divorce. One mentions it directly, and the other made mention of his ex having been left with the Murietta McMansion that she's having trouble selling. They were by no means a main focus of the article. Other people make mention of his BEING divorced and having lost his marriage, etc. But no way those warrant Google search suggestions.
Orvieto said:First time poster here...
Orvieto said:First time poster here, so be gentle if this has already mentioned. Unlike the search results which are compiled and ranked based on page content, the auto-complete in the search box, is also based on what other people have typed. There may be only two results for a search, but if a million people search for it, it's going to be suggested.
You can use Google's Adwords Keyword Tool to see how often certain combinations are searched.
https://adwords.google.com/o/Target...000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS#search.none
I noticed Divorce actually was frequently searched in conjunction with FL. It was searched more often than Doping, but the absolute number of searches was quite low, about 1600 a month at its peak.
It occurred to me that that number of searches wouldn't be that hard to generate and that a clever PR company could effectively spam the autosuggest by generating lots of searches for a combination they want to seed.
Virtually all the Divorce searches came from North America. That makes some sense, but it also made me wonder if someone with an Adwords account could see more geographic details and see that they whether they were predominantly coming from Austin Texas.
Benotti69 said:i have just discovered the inbox on my gmail empty! strange as i didn't delete it.
It was the account for which i commented on the bikezilla blog about google and i see all the comments on bikezilla are missing!!!!
the plot thickens.
i emailed google and am awaiting a reply.
BotanyBay said:This is for ANYONE who thinks their email may have been hacked. If you have Gmail, there is a simple way (that few know about) to tell if someone has been breaking into your account from another location. Look at the image below. This shows you where on the Gmail interface to click. If you log-on to gmail from the same place each day, then the IP address SHOULD pretty much be the same. If someone in another location is logging into your account, it will stand-out like a sore thumb and be obvious.
If you end up seeing something fishy, feel free to PM me and I'll help you pinpoint who is doing it.
For those of you who suspect you're being email hacked, Gmail is actually the service to use, as few other net-based email services allow you to see this info.
-Bb