The Daily Feed Issue #51: Search (the goverment kind), Google instant bugs, spam drops and stolen pizza

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This week I turned off Google instant, not because I don't like living in an instant world, but because it limits my search results to 10. If you're doing any kind of SEO research, 10 results just doesn't cut it. There's a bug that causes Google to continually show 10 results even if you asked it for 100 using advanced search. It's caused by Google instant and you need to turn it off to get back to all you can eat search results. 

In other news, a well known white hat hacker (that means he's mostly a good guy) was detained for several hours when re-entering the US this week while his laptop and cellphone was confiscated and searched. I did some googling and it turns out that the border search exception lets border agents ignore the 4th amendment which requires a warrant for search and seizure. Then a member on ycombinator's hacker news replied to a post of mine saying that in fact the border extends 100 miles inland. If you're a blogger on the coast relying on anything in the 4th amendment, good luck with that. 

Every now and then the government does actually get it right. The BBC is reporting that global spam email is down 47% after a combination of government arrests of spammers and work by private firms to shut down spam botnets. 

And finally, a Reddit member got back to their apartment and found their pizza eaten by their roommate with this note waiting for them (click it if your browser shrinks it).

Regards,

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

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