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Ten tips to improve your Google searches.
Guardian Online

Happy birthday to GNU
It's 20 years this week since Richard Stallman started to develop a free operating system called GNU (Gnu's Not Unix) though it ended up being called Linux.
Schofield column
Guardian Online

Media on the go
Microsoft boss Bill Gates was expected to show off a portable video/music player during his opening CES keynote last night -- the same as last year.
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