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In addition to the Blog Demographics changes discussed in the previous entry, the second part of our continuing index improvement has been the release of brand new, much more detailed voting documetation pages a few days ago.

Quoting from the official announcement:

These are a veritable treasure. written by Rantz based on his mentorship with kucinichworldpeace, whose understanding of voting and the Index is virtually unparalleled in the game, and on Rantz' many months of voting and cleaning the Index followed by many more months of refining, testing, and amplifying his knowledge as he taught it to many players who participated in the Friends of the Index program.

The documents are not just an incredible resource guaranteed to increase your voting accuracy and efficiency, and your karma. They are an historic legacy of two great players.

If you haven't already done so, please take a look at the new docs. They start here.

Posted by MrPilot at 02:29 PM | IM News | Permalink

Several months in the works, today we launched a new top-level industry: Blog Demographics.

Blog Demographics is a top-level industry for which votes cannot be cast. Its sub-industries contain information about Gender, Language, and Place as those pertain to the blog and its blogger(s)

This called for some re-organization. As the description indicates, the Gender, Language and Place industries are now subs to Blog Demographics and likewise non-votable. All the sub-industries of these three, however, are still votable.

We also created several new industries today -- several subs of the Gender Industry as well as Hometown Blogs and Communications

And to retool the Artefacts associated with the formerly votable "Language" and "Places".industries, we created an opportunity for players to participate for a chance to win B$50 billion. Check it out!

Posted by The IM Team at 03:50 PM | IM News | Permalink

Our three sets of duplicate artefacts have been fixed, and some coding fixes should prevent future duplicates. For your information:

Country Music > Grand Ole Opry
Nashville > Grand Ole Opry Music Row

Music Row, an area just southwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, is home to hundreds of businesses related to the country music, gospel music, and Christian music industries. A major music recording and production center, the city is known as the home of country music.

Nashville's music business district is so central to the country music industry that the words "Music Row" are sometimes used to refer to country music as a whole.

Google > PageRank
Search Engines > PageRank Web Spiders

Web search engines work by having automated scripts or programs, often called "web spiders" (aka web crawlers, web robots), move out across the World Wide Web, "spidering" it (visiting links in an automated, methodical way). The spiders travel from link to link, making copies of the pages they visit to be downloaded and indexed by Search Engines in such a way that searchers may retrieve relevant data from the search engines through the use of queries (words, phrases, or other search strings that define a search).

Poker > Royal Flush
Gambling > Royal Flush Bookie

Legal or illegal, regulated or unregulated, state-run or private, the bookie is a fixture wherever gambling is the order of the day. A bookie, or bookmaker is a person or oganisation that takes bets and pays out winnings depending upon results and odds. Regardless of whether you fancy a flutter on the horses, a long-shot on the dogs, or a spread bet on the football, the bookie's your man.

Posted by The IM Team at 03:47 PM | IM News | Permalink