So the season finale of Britain’s got Talent is over and pretty well every blog and news site on the internet is reverberating the same headline: “Susan Boyle Lost…” For heavens sake, No, she didn’t lose. She placed a very admirable second place behind the Diversity dance troupe.

But no one is really talking about Diversity. When I was researching my Inquisitr post earlier about BGT, I actually had a hard time finding any information about the first place winner. By the way, I wrote a much more accurate headline than 95% of the other sites covering the story, because I actually conveyed who the winner is and who came second. Not only that, the bulk of the body of the post was about the winner:

I’ve been seeing a lot of these ad units on sites lately. It’s obviously an ad for some method of how to get money from the government of whatever country you live in, but take a look at the part of the cheque I magnified for you. It’s a cheque dated for April 2002 and the amount on it is for $2.48.

Huh? But the blue headline above it says “I got a cheque for $11,668 from the Canadian Government.” I mean, come on, if you’re going to use a fake cheque in your marketing material, at least make an effort to photoshop in the right amounts and dates.

Alexa recently made some big changes to their site and services offered. Now, there’s an obvious change in how the service calculates it’s traffic rank as well.

While surfing around earlier, I happened to check the Alexa traffic rank for a site I was viewing and was surprised at how much it’s numbers had dropped. I was so surprised in fact that I decided to check the traffic rank for a handful of other sites I visit on a daily basis and here’s what I found: