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NR Top 10 MARCH, 2008
James Loving - National Radio Text Service - Monday March 24 , 2008
As a change of pace on this Top 10 we listed the most popular stories viewed that were published during the period January 1, 2007 to March 15 2007. Overall Dr Beat Richner tops the list and has done so for most of the Top 10 rankings over the past two years. - SEARCH ENGINES GUILTY OF INTERNET THEFT?
NR TOP 10 Our Top 10 reviews are gaining momentum and this month took the top four spots on out National Radio Top 10 rankings. The January NR Top 10 took the top spot and February NR Top 10 ranked second making it the fastest riser on our Top 10 polls. Former American Idol Antonella Barba was features in that column as well as the Philippines sexy girl Wendy Valdez. As a change of pace on this Top 10 we listed the most popular stories viewed that were published during the period January 1, 2007 to March 15 2007. Overall Dr. Beat Richner tops the list and had done so for most of the Top 10 rankings over the past two years. Our focus on the England national football team took the fifth position as Fabio Capello took over the reigns. Our Video Beat column took three of the remaining five places. Renowned television talk show host Larry King returns to the Top 10 in or June Biz Who Is column. The Ronan concert at Phnom Penh's Olympic stadium continued to hold down the sixth position. This month we added one for good measure with one of the year's most popular stories regarding former Chelsea football manager Jose Mourinho and the plight of David Beckham. The focus is also on the managerial changes in English foot that cost Martin Jol his job. Overall Racist Radio continues to hold down the spot for the oldest story viewed. That story is 10 years old but the subject matter lives on. Considering that Major League Baseball (MLB) has been signing a significant number of Asian players since that story was written and given the fact that the MLB World champion Boston Red Sox are playing in Japan this week reinforces the ignorance of some in the media regarding the subject of race relations and appropriate subject material. . The most interesting change this month is our Phnom Penh section moved to the top of the sections that were most visited overall. This is the first time this section has reached such a lofty position. The Freshie and Thai sub pages each moved up a notch. The Features section was the fastest riser in this category escalating from the ninth spot to fifth. New entries to this grouping are Major League Baseball at number nine and the Los Angeles Lakers at number 10. This is the first time they have made the list. The Top 10 most visited sections are: 1 . Phnom Penh 2. NFL (National Football League) 4. Thailand 5. Features 6. Boxing 7. Travel Tips 8. Travel 9. MLB ( Major League Baseball) 10. LAKERS The PREVIOUS Top 10 most visited sections were: 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 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 Wanderaugh 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 ˇ¤ 7/14/2007 o ˇ¤ 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 ˇ¤ 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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