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After facing criticism that its new policy of penalizing pirate sites might unfairly favor Google-owned YouTube, Google has come out to say that most popular sites are unlikely to be penalized. It hasn't clarified exactly why or how, though. To try and clear things up about the whole link demotion thing, Google told Search Engine Land that takedown requests filed agianst YouTube videos through YouTube's own system will be piled on top of DMCA requests to add up to one, big number of infringement notices. All of these requests have to be deemed valid by Google before they count, by the way. That makes it seem like YouTube would actually be in some hot water, considering how much content it has, and how often that content is getting pulled. It's not though, because there are other factors in the mix but what those factors are, Google isn't about to say. These factors will, apparently, make it unlikely that sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and IMDB will...

Photo: Jackie Booley Jackie Booley (right) is living out a different retirement than she planned. Ask 67-year-old Jackie Booley about life after retirement, and  within minutes her story paints an all-too familiar picture of the challenges faced by today's older workers: Widowed in 2006 after 42 years of marriage, Booley retired from her 15-year career as a call center specialist at AT&T. With a healthy $120,000 in her retirement account, she decided it was time to ride out her savings and leave her desk job behind. But a year into her newfound freedom, 2008's stock market crash turned half her savings to dust. "I was taking supplements from my 401(k), plus the Social Security my husband left me, but it wasn't quite enough (to live on)," Booley said. In the end, she wound up with only one viable option––going back to the workforce she'd left less than two years before. She's certainly not alone. Eighty-six percent of workers in their 60s say they will...