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Slick Search Engine Carrot2–You Gotta Try This One

Posted by Bill on January 29, 2008

internt.jpg  Thanks to Alt Search Engines for reference to this beauty. 

They write:  “Then I remembered hearing about Carrot2, an open source search-results-clustering engine, just recently out in beta. In a nutshell, it takes search results, analyzes them and, on the fly, creates groups of the most common concepts or terms from those results. Since this is all done by algorithms rather than by humans, expect the odd result every once in a while, but I found the clusters to be consistently useful.”

 Read Review/Notes Here/

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Woman Charged With Punching Police Horse-Shades of “Blazing Saddles”

Posted by Bill on January 29, 2008

police-horse.jpg  Shades of “Blazing Saddles.” 

 Woman punches police horse say police

TAMPA – A 26-year-old Tampa woman was arrested this morning, accused of punching a police horse outside an Ybor City nightclub.


Angelica Rene Ayala

The incident started at about 3 a.m., according to an arrest affidavit. That’s when three police officers riding horses were trying to clear a crowd from around officers arresting people who had been outside Club Prana, 1619 E. Seventh Ave.

Angelica Rene Ayala grabbed the reins of a horse called “Buddy” and punched the horse on the neck, the report states.

Ayala was charged with an offense against a police animal, a first-degree misdemeanor, jail records state.

There were two other reports of offenses against police animals that happened Saturday night around Bayshore Boulevard and South Orleans Avenue, according to jail records.

Rick Keller, 46, and Sendhil Kumar Krishnan, 28, both of Tampa, were charged with offenses against police animals.  See Tampa Online Story Here

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More Telephone Pretexting–When Will They Learn

Posted by Bill on January 29, 2008

telephone.jpg  The Federal Trade Commission is at it again.  The FTC announced yesterday that a District Court ordered Accusearch in Wyoming not to pretext phone companies and sell the information.  Folks, people or firms who get telephone customer information by pretexting the phone company are not within the law.  Do not deal with them.  See FTC Press Release HereSee PC World Story Here

See Court Order Here

Later I will post other misdeeds or trials for other wayward private investigators.  If anyone wants to hire private investigators make sure they do the work legally and within the law.

Bill Lowrance

President PIAVA

Information Insights Inc.

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