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NR Top 10 FEBRUARY, 2008
James Loving - National Radio Text Service - Thursday February 21 , 2008
National Radio TOP 10 rankings top the February NR TOP 10 list with the July edition taking the top spot and May notched second place - Our December 2007 edition of Sports Notes was our fastest riser this month. The column features England hiring Fabio Capello - VIDEO BEAT took the ninth and 10th spots with the focus being American Idol, Cambodia's beauty contests - This month we've added an 11th spot since it is largely about American Idol's Antonella Barba who created quite a stir last season given her sexy looks. Racist Radio is our oldest highest ranking story. - SEARCH ENGINES GUILTY OF INTERNET THEFT?
NR TOP 10 National Radio TOP 10 rankings top the February NR TOP 10 list this month with the July repeating as the top choice and edition held on to the top spot. The May edition notched second place giving that column the longevity title having been on the list since it was published and is one of our fastest risers. The July edition features Dr. Beat who builds children's hospitals giving them free health care. Beat maintained the NR TOP 10 number one spot overall for the longest period during the past year. The Freshie contestants Wholesome Look and Paris Hilton meets Larry King and the Philippines Big Brother TV show are also included on the July list. Richner toped the May list as well on a Top 10 list that included Racism one of the oldest stories that we've published that remains accessible on the site. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman also made an impact on the list. Rodman has been out of the league since March 8, 2000 when he was waived by the Dallas Mavericks yet we continue to receive mail about our coverage of him. Cambodia's ex national team football star Hok Sochetra made an impact in the issue with two stories regarding his career. Sports dominated the middle of the pack and our Sports Notes column registered four of the top 10 positions taking 3-5 and the seventh positions. Our December 2007 edition of Sports Notes was our fastest riser this month. The column features England hiring Fabio Capello and the status of Jose Mourinho. KAKA winning the FIFA WORLD PLAYER Award is also included in that piece and well as Pele and our choice for the NBA INTERNATIONAL NBA ALL STAR TEAM is also included. Entertainment was very prominent is this months report with our Phnom Penh column taking the eighth spot. That story focuses on Ronan's first concert in Phnom Penh. It was also a fast riser. VIDEO BEAT took the ninth and 10th spots with the focus being American Idol, Cambodia's beauty contests and NBA PLAYERS TO ENTERTAINMENT rocked that column featuring our man Dennis Rodman again as well as Shaquille O'Neal and NBA star Ray Allen who was featured in the film White Men Can't Jump. This month we've added an 11th spot since it is largely about American Idol's Antonella Barba who created quite a stir last season given her sexy looks. At this time American Idol is currently in the elimination process to cut 24 down to the final 12. It was at that point that Barba was eliminated. We've expanded our most visited sections to 10 this month on a look see basis. Soccer/International Football takes the top spot. The FRESHIE Girl & Boys section took the fourth position moving up one spot. The contest is now in its seventh season and we have included the 2008 contestant's pictures on that page. The Top 10 most visited sections are: 1 . International Football-Soccer 2. Phnom Penh 3. NFL (National Football League) 5. Thailand 6. Boxing 7. Travel Tips 8. Travel 9. Features 10. Business The PREVIOUS Top 5 most visited sections were: 1. NR TOP 10 2. Soccer 3. Phnom Penh 4. FIFA stories NATIONAL RADIO PUBLISHED IN 5 LANGUAGES National Radio is published in five languages, English, Thai, French, Russian and Khmer (Cambodian language). Any of our foreign language material and our Roman Wabderaugh columns are legally available ONLY on our National Radio site.
INTERNET THEFT? In researching the findings we have found that search engines Yahoo, Google and MSN are all guilty of misleading the public. They have linked our story information to other sites without our permission. Those sites include Thai Visa, Washington University in the USA and UNESCO. We have tried to contact Yahoo regarding this matter but there was no response. For our story on Digital Divide Data titled Bridging The Digital Gap Yahoo linked our information to UNESCO and Washington University web sites as noted below. Cambodia (PDF) 13 James Loving, "DDD - Bridging the Digital Gap of Have and Have. Notes," (by James Loving, National Radio Text Service, 8 April 8, ... www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/Metasurvey/CAMBODIA.PDF - 117k - View as html The questions are: 1. Why would a company that is valued at billions of dollars employ dishonest practices? 2. Who is responsible for manipulating information that is misleading to the public? 3. Who is responsible at UNESCO in permitting the practice? Yahoo used the same story to mislead the public to the Washington University (USA) web site as noted below: Cambodia (PDF) 13 James Loving, "DDD - Bridging the Digital Gap of Have and Have. Notes," (by James Loving, National Radio Text Service, 8 April 8, ... www.com.washington.edu/ict4d/upload/2004052712430458_03760155.pdf - 117k - View as html WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Our Roman Wanderaugh columns have been linked to other web sites by all three search engines without our permission. The most flagrant violator is Thai Visa. We have contacted them in the past but they have ignored our request to take our stories off their site. All three of the mentioned search engines have used our story information and linked it to Thai Visa without our permission. Thai Visa actually stole our story and posted it on their site. In the past they not only stole our Cambodia By Land & Sea story but also used our photo. Since that time the photo is not on our story on their site. Google provides advertising for the site. The question is why would a company that is worth billions of dollars resort to supporting a web site that steals? The information of our information page on the Google site also had the following endorsing going to the Thai Visa site. ©2007 Google - Google Home - Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google FRONT PAGE WITH THAI VISA MSN did the same. They listed incorrect information and linked our work to Thai Visa as noted below: Thaivisa.com The latest updated Thai visa immigration news; work permit and residence permit in ... Friday, 15 December 2006 Cambodia visa trip "TRAVELING AROUND" by Roman Wanderaugh o www.thaivisa.com/344.0.html o ¡¤ 7/14/2007 o ¡¤ Cached page Cambodia visa trip "TRAVELING AROUND" by Roman Wanderaugh "AN INEXPENSIVE TRIP from BANGKOK to CAMBODIA by LAND & SEA" If you're an adventurous traveler the trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia from ... o www.thaivisa.com/border-run/page_2.html o ¡¤ Cached page o +Show more results from www.thaivisa.com MSN also listed the headline TRAVELING AROUND on the Cambodia Land & Sea story. It raises the question why was it necessary to make two listings on the same story to link to the Thai Visa site? Roman Waderaugh and any other National Radio columns are only legally available on the Internet on National Radio. We DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION for any other web site to use our material including soliciting our photos to the public. We negotiate directly with interested parties for use. We are published in print in five languages. We do not approve of Thai Visa using our material and all of the search engines misleading the public to other web sites using National Radio information. Isn't a search engines job to lead the public to the information they seek? It is clearly stated on our National Radio web site: © Copyright: National Radio. Any use of these materials, whole or in part, is prohibited unless authorized in writing by National Radio. Contact: nationalradio@yahoo.com All rights reserved. The questions are: 1. Where is the integrity of these companies? 2. Why should people do business with web sites that employ illegal practices? 3. If search engine companies render misinformation regarding linking the public to web sites they aren't searching for while stealing the traffic from the site the public intends to reach does that reflect on the accuracy of the value of their business that could inflate the value of their stock? 4. Is there an ENRON in the house? We believe that a search engine should take the public to the web sites they are trying to find and not misdirect them. FULL STORY NEXT MONTH.
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