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An attack on Twitter which prevented users from "tweeting" on Thursday could have been the work of a teenager in their bedroom, an expert has said.
The micro-blogging site went down for several hours in the afternoon after falling victim to a "denial of service" attack.
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1   Link   Google
United Kingdoms version of the popular utility and search engine. 		250
2   Link   Yahoo
Yahoo UK 		233
3   Link   bing
Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions. 		237
4   Link   Ask
Ask UK. It's the one with everyone's favourite butler. 		236
5   Link   Dogpile
InfoSpace created the Dogpile search engine which returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask, so you find what you’re looking for faster.

Each search engine has its own method of searching and each will return different results. Dogpile looks at all of them, decides which are most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and reveals them to you. In the end, you get a list of results more complete than anywhere else on the Web. 		243

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