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This is by far the absolute cutest video of a kitten I’ve ever seen. Epic Awwwwww!!!

Found at: The Cutest Video Of A Kitten You’ll Ever See

Watergate – The scandal began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The men were connected to the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President by a slush fund and investigations conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, House Judiciary Committee and the news media.

More info on June 17, 1972

Watergate: Brief Timeline of Events
June 17, 1972: Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National …

Watergate burglars arrested, June 17, 1972 – Andrew Glass …
17 Jun 2009 … On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, …

What else was going on that day?

June 17, 1972 – Elvis In Concert Chicago

Famous photo of Jessica Chobot licking a PSP

As a result of the photo of Jessica Chobot licking a PSP, she (real name Jessica Lynn Horn) shot to stardom online and ended up being featured in Ask Men as the 88th most desirable woman in the world, getting hired as an advice columnist for Maxim magazine and securing a spot as the anchor of an online video show for IGN.com called the Daily Fix.

According to Jessica Chobot’s Wikidea page:

Jessica Chobot became an overnight internet sensation when a tongue-in-cheek modeling photo of her appeared online licking the Sony PSP in 2005. The photo has been widely parodied since, even appearing on Sony-branded advertising. Supplementing her love of videogames is an obsession with Japanese culture, specifically anime and manga. In 2006 Chobot was hired full-time by IGN.com to take over hosting responsibilities for the network’s IGN Weekly show which is no longer running. Her segments included stand-up introductions as well as “woman-on-the-street” pieces. She now hosts a daily show entitled , “IGN Daily Fix”, the first episode aired March 23, 2009. While Chobot is the main host of the show Fran Mirabella and more commonly Daemon Hatfield have been known to host as well. The show does a weekly Friday giveaway asking questions about random fun video facts, the winner receiving a video game. In addition, she contributes columns, features and reviews and her IGN blog is one of the most visited on the site. Chobot is also a former contributor to FHM UK, Mania.com and has made multiple appearances on G4’s “Filter” and “Attack of the Show.” She has also hosted a videogame preview segment for Fuel TV’s, “The Daily Habit,” and co-hosts on Lifeskool TV’s, “Gamer’s Dojo.” She also contributes as a weekly guest on Maxim Radio, where she answers caller questions for an hour each Monday.

1. From Myspace.com – about 181,000,000

2. From americanidol.com – about 744,000

3. From AskMen.com – about 159,000

4. From Fox.com – about 83,300

5. From FoxSports.com – about 594,000

6. From GameSpy.com – about 824,000

7. From Hulu.com – about 225,000

8. From DrownedInSound.com – about 235,000

9. From PhotoBucket.com – about 77,500,000

10. From RottenTomatoes.com – about 3,990,000

11. From Scout.com – about 978,000

12. From SpringWidgets.com – about 45,200

13. From WhatIfSports.com – about 40,300

14. From WSJ.com (The Wall Street Journal) – about 939,000

15. From Sky.com (Sky News) – about 1,250,000

16. From TheSun.co.uk – about 1,120,000

17. From TimesOnline.co.uk – about 1,540,000

18. From NYPost.com (The New York Post) – about 457,000

19. From MarketWatch.com – about 1,140,000

20. From Barrons.com – about 411,000

21. From NationalGeographic.com – about 171,000

And that’s just a small sampling of the amount of News Corp content indexed in Google.

Imagine if or when all those high profile sites and content suddenly disappears from Google. Millions of people will be bewildered that they can no longer find anything from MySpace, the Wall Street Journal, Fox Sports, Sky News, National Geographic, the New York Post, PhotoBucket, Hulu, etc., etc. Users will have to either:

A. Stay loyal to Google and no longer be able to easily find the content they once happily consumed.

B. Move over to an alternate search engine, like Bing.com (who would no doubt jump at the chance to exclusively serve them that content in exchange for millions of new users and ad revenue).

C. Pay News Corp a small subscription or user fees to get the content they crave.

Many will pay, which will offset the lost ad revenue News Corp properties gained from the free google traffic. But most will move over to Bing.com where they’ll still be able to get most of, or all of what they got from Google.

How does Murdoch and News Corp benefit? By shoving aside the biggest search engine on the web, he now eliminates the competition for views of his content for the other search players. They now have a very compelling reason to actually pay to index News Corp content because Murdoch is offering them a chunk of the market share once dominated by Google. Murdoch makes the cash by selling that market share, and so does the new search engine that gets exclusive access to something they can offer current and new users who are loyal to News Corp brands, without the competition from Google.

The implications of the above are staggering, but what’s even more staggering is what Jason Calacanis talks about in the video below. Will other large content and media publishers follow suit?

Is this the beginning of an upset in the balance of power in search?

Murdoch doesn’t care about bloggers ranting that he may or may not be an idiot. He doesn’t care that by removing his content from Google will make way for their content to show higher in search results. He doesn’t care. He has the leverage to sell something that was once free because he’s now creating his own demand and fulfilling that demand at the same time. He’s a business man. Most bloggers are not.

List of News Corp web properties from Wikipedia.org

Pieces of content in Google – Google.com

Jewelry made from human teeth

Ecouterre, via WhackingYourBrain.com