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Do you use gmail as your primary (or only) email server? Well, you'd better be careful because several dozen gmail users per month have been experiencing problems recently -- problems such as mysteriously losing some, most or all their email messages. What does Google have to say about this? According to a Google spokesman, as far as Google is concerned, "most issues like this are a result of phishing attacks or compromised passwords -- or sometimes simply messages mistakenly deleted or marked as spam -- not a data corruption issue." But unfortunately, the missing email problems at Google…
I just found out that the journal impact factors for 2005 were recently released, and as usual, the journals with the highest impact factors are not necessarily the ones that would be considered the most prestigious. Therefore, the following post from the archives, about an alternative rating scheme for scientific journals, seemed relevant. Enjoy! In regards to my statement below about my old site's PageRank, I did finally get one but apparently the new site hasn't made an impression on Google yet.... (17 February 2006) How do you know how important a website is? You probably already…