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During the week end the rumor that Facebook is going to close on March 15 started spreading. It seems that an on line tabloid started this rumor reporting alleged statements from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who allegedly stated that running the site has become too stressful. Well, considering that the same site reports that aliens are going to attack the Earth during this year that’s not prticularly shocking news.

Yesterday, people using Skype, the world leader solution in VoIP phone calls, started having big connection problems that left many millions with the impossibility to use Skype for their calls.

Blekko is a new search engine that’s entering a market dominated by Google with the intention of creating a good reputation giving search tools more sophisticated but in some ways simpler to use.

12 years ago Google was born from an idea developed since 1996 by Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page at Stanford University. It was the time of great development for the web with the birth of various search engines: in the results the ranking was generally given by counting how many times the words appeared in the pages but Brin and Page developed their search project using a mathematical algorythm that analyzed the relationship between the web pages creating the famous Google PageRank.