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Al-Jazeera most sought-after in Internet searches
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| LiquidX |
| quote: | (AP) -- In spite of being mostly knocked offline, the Web site of Arab satellite news network Al-Jazeera was among the most sought-after on the Internet last week.
The Web portal Lycos reported that "Al-Jazeera" and variant spellings became its top search term last week, with three times more searches than "sex."
Al-Jazeera drew intense interest from Web surfers after it carried Iraqi TV footage of dead and captive U.S. soldiers in Iraq. U.S. television networks had decided not to air footage of the corpses. Al-Jazeera later honored a U.S. request to stop until families could be notified, a statement from the network said.
The Internet's leading search engine, Google, said "Al-Jazeera" was the term that showed the greatest increase in the week ending March 31. Google does not report absolute rankings of search terms.
Hackers also homed in on Al-Jazeera, bringing down its Web site early last week in what the Web host called an attack characterized by a flood of bogus traffic.
Hackers calling themselves the "Freedom Cyber Force Militia" later diverted visitors to the English site to a page with a U.S. flag.
The English-language Web site for Al-Jazeera was hacked last week, with users diverted to a page displaying a U.S. flag.
The managing editor of Al-Jazeera's English site, Joanne Tucker, said it would be back up by Wednesday and that steps were being taken to make the Web pages impervious to hacking attempts.
Al-Jazeera is based in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. It is funded by Qatar's government but is an unusually independent voice in the Arab world. Its English Web site launched last week with the aim of giving Western audiences an Arab perspective.
At least one other regional site, Arabia.com of the United Arab Emirates, was blocked by hackers last week, said Duri al-Ajrami, the site's marketing manager.
U.S. Internet users are visiting foreign sites in huge numbers for news on the war, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project released Tuesday.
In the conflict's first six days, 10 percent of Americans who use the Internet visited the sites of foreign news organizations, the study said. This compared to 32 percent who visited Web sites of U.S. television networks for war news. The telephone poll surveyed 999 Internet users and had a 4 percent margin of error.
Besides Al-Jazeera and Arabia.com, there are plenty of English-language news sites with an Arab perspective.
Jennifer Salan at the Arab American Institute in Washington said they include Lebanon's privately owned Daily Star newspaper, as well as The Jordan Times and Saudi Arabia's Arab News, both government-owned.
As the Web troubles mounted last week, Al-Jazeera launched a subscription service that sends brief news items in Arabic or English as text messages to cell phones.
Text messaging is a popular form of communication in Europe and Asia, but has yet to catch on in the United States. The service was not accepting subscriptions to U.S. cell phone numbers. source cnn.com |
I hope this solves as an answer to the hacking of this site.
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| LiquidX |
| Okay.. this TA server is making me crazy.. sorry about the other threads... moderator, please delete the other ones for me, as Im not allowed to DELETE any of them, thank you, and sorry for the inconvenience to everyone that's visiting this forum.. sorry, it was the SERVER that made me REFRESH because of the error messege.. ggrrr |
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| occrider |
Yea it's irritating as hell. What you can maybe try doing is to open a new window to see if your post was submitted but has yet to say it was completed in your old window.
Can't you delete the origninal post and then that deletes the entire thread? Or is it lockign up on you there too? |
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| LiquidX |
| I can only edit the post but not delete it, says I don't got the permission, I contacted a MOD but he couldn't do it either, so Swamper is the only one I guess. |
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| ahlamalek |
For those who might be intrested. The Iraqi govt decided not to let Al-Jazeera comment or make reportage in Iraq. They're allowed to film and that's all. Seems that the govt didn't like the criticism from Al-Jazeera.
Next time you say Al-Jazerra is pro-iraqi or pro-arab, think twice about it. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by ahlamalek
For those who might be intrested. The Iraqi govt decided not to let Al-Jazeera comment or make reportage in Iraq. They're allowed to film and that's all. Seems that the govt didn't like the criticism from Al-Jazeera.
Next time you say Al-Jazerra is pro-iraqi or pro-arab, think twice about it. |
Well CNN was banned as well ... that doesn't really mean anything. If anything it just shows how much of the truth the Iraqi government is trying to hide. |
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| occrider |
| Geraldo was forced out of Iraq by the Pentagon ... does that mean he and fox news aren't pro-american? :) |
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| ahlamalek |
I was trying to point out what happened to answer those who were criticizing Al Jazeera.
CNN being expelled isn't a surprise:rolleyes: |
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| LiquidX |
| CNN was expelled?!?!?!:eek: |
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| ahlamalek |
| welcome to yesterday :) |
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| LiquidX |
| quote: | Originally posted by ahlamalek
welcome to yesterday :) |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by ahlamalek
I was trying to point out what happened to answer those who were criticizing Al Jazeera.
CNN being expelled isn't a surprise:rolleyes: |
And what I'm trying to point out is that just because the Iraqi government expelled al-jazeera doesn't give it cridibility as to being an impartial news source. Trying to spin Iraq in a good way is like trying to hide an elephant in a closet, eventually every news organization would get expelled. I still am critical of al jazeera as being biased much as I'm critical of cnn, reuters, bbc, etc. |
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