Though there’s concern surrounding Internet "click fraud," there is no agreement on how to define it, how prevalent it is or who to blame for it. Online click fraud occurs in pay-per-click advertising, when a person or automated program clicks on an advertisement. Internet advertisers pay for each click, or inquiry, and the more clicks, the higher the cost of that advertisement. Most advertisers agree pay-per-click advertising is one of the most effective and verifiable forms of Internet advertising, so the worry is that fraudulent clicks will discourage its use.
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It was sloppy and sometimes lacking in the smarts department, but the Washington High School baseball team could shoulder a few baserunning blunders and mental mistakes on defense.For the first time since Washington upset Lowell in the 2001 Academic Athletic Association championship game at what was then Pacific Bell Park, the Eagles beat the Cardinals 12-7 at Nealon Diamond at Big Rec on Friday afternoon. "They knew this year that our team was better and that if we played well we could beat them," winning pitcher Lorenzo Ubungen said after the Ealges improved to
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This pre-20th century condo was built by architect Julius E. Krafft, who some say is largely responsible for the stately way the Pacific Heights neighborhood looks today. Krafft, who was born in Germany and came to San Francisco in 1874, had two distinct styles. This home was done in his lavish Park Avenue style. The building was originally one of the Queen Anne Victorian mansions. Only a few still remain and they have mostly been converted to condominiums or office buildings.
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Suppose for a moment that you live on one side of the Caltrain tracks that run from San Jose to San Francisco, but many of the places you regularly go are on the other side. Perhaps you need to cross the tracks to reach your favorite stores, your school or bus stop, your friends’ homes.The nearest marked pedestrian crossing is likely to be three or more blocks away. And even there, the only thing preventing you from entering the tracks while a train is coming is a lowered crossing arm meant primarily as a vehicle barrier.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to create a new park in the eastern neighborhoods of San Francisco such as Bayview, his administration said Friday. The park, which would be modeled on Chicago’s Millennium Park, would be open space as well as a cultural destination to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Great Quake in San Francisco, said Marshall Foster, director of City Greening. Foster said the park would likely be more than an acre, but it is not clear exactly where it will be placed. Foster said the Mayor wanted to place it in the eastern neighborhoods because the area lacked parks.
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San Francisco police have solved a 33-year old murder — one of the oldest in the department's history — through a database that matched the DNA of the suspect with a Stockton felon, according to police.Police arrested John Puckett, 71, Friday morning in connection with the death of Diana Sylvester, a 38-year-old University of California nurse, who was killed on Dec. 22, 1972 in her apartment in the 1200 block of 6th Street.
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A city bus ticket program intended to reunitehomeless people with family and friends to help them get back on their feet has sent a handful of homeless to shelters in other cities, according to documents obtained by The Examiner.Program officials also appear to have violated their own guidelines in hundreds of cases by not following up to see if the homeless people arrived at their destination or if they are being cared for.
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City officials have reached a pact with a developer to preserve the cultural character of two Japantown malls and a hotel whose sale had neighborhood residents worried about the demise of one of the nation's few remaining Japanese enclaves.This week, Mayor Gavin Newsom's administration finalized a covenant with Los Angeles-based 3D Investments, which is in the process of purchasing the Kintetsu and Miyako malls and the Radison Miyako Hotel and the Best Western Miyako Inn from Kintetsu Enterprises Inc.
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The California Gambling Control Commission granted Colma’s Lucky Chances card room a permanent license Thursday and found it in compliance with a state-imposed $200 betting limit, even as the club is preparing to fight that limit in court.Lucky Chances attorney Michael Franchetti plans to go back before the commission to get the $200 cap removed after the certification of an April 11 election in which Colma voters overwhelmingly voted to allow no-limits betting.
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OK, that qualifies as the mother of all double whammies. First we got the delayed Tax Filing Day on Monday followed by the Anniversary of the Quake on Tuesday. And by Wednesday everyone is shaken every which way. As far as the former is concerned, Sterling Bank's Steve Adams checks in with the following idea for the IRS: "Enclosed is my 2005 tax return showing that I owe $3,429.00 in taxes. Please note the attached article from USA Today, wherein you will see the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet seat.
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As many as 200,000 area residents could be infected with bird flu in the event a pandemic strikes the Bay Area, hospital and Health Department officials in the county reported Thursday.The overwhelming numbers, equivalent to about one in three people, came from a countywide exercise to prepare for a worst-case scenario. A pandemic on that scale could force hospitals to close to new patients, shut down schools and have far-reaching impacts on government services and the economy, officials said.
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Skipping long lines at airport security checkpoints will soon be more than a dream for some Bay Area frequent fliers under a new "registered traveler" program to be rolled in at airports across the country this summer.Mineta San Jose International Airport will be among the first in the nation to implement the registered travel program, which will be implemented using private companies, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday.
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Michael Brodeur, the pastor of Promised Land Fellowship church in San Francisco, has spent his April cutting back his hours, talking to lawyers and driving every day from a hotel in San Bruno to his abandoned home in Broadmoor to feed his cat. Now, he’s worried that this could go on for months.
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If Joan Barnes’ company gets too big, she has faith that the nature of her business will be her saving grace. Barnes owns a branch of yoga studios called Yogastudio. "I’m in the yoga business so my yoga practice comes first," she said. "I schedule a yoga practice before anything. That has really kept my balance. When I make myself come first, I have more energy for everything else and I feel more sane. I would be a crazy oxymoron if I were not in balance."
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After more than a decade in the works, a massive redevelopment plan for the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco is poised to receive final approval, kicking off a 30-year period that would transform a neighborhood that has suffered for decades from civic neglect and high crime rates.
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