Google vs. Apple : Epic Battle of Droids, Tunes & Systems
For several years now, Google and Apple have been complimentary partners. Google was expertly integrated with the Apple iPhone, and the company’s engineers work tirelessly...
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The End is Here: Yahoo Closes Geocities
This past summer I wrote about how Yahoo was going to finally shut down Geocities this fall. That day is finally here, and the internet...
The Data Liberation Front Frees Your Google Content
Has Google taken over your life? Have you eagerly signed up for every new Google service as they’ve been announced and now have tons of...
Gazopa Similar Image Search Enters Open Beta
Imagine conducting an image search whereby the search engine uses features from an image to retrieve similar images. If you thought to yourself “That’s already...
4 Reasons Why Including Social Networking Results is Smart
Just when you think that everything that could be done to ramp up a search engine’s search capabilities has already been done, they come up...
Mary Kay Sues Yahoo for Trademark Infringement
Here’s a new twist on the oft repeated whine of many businesses regarding the use of brand names to trigger online ads. Cosmetics company Mary...
Yahoo to Shut Down GeoCities This Fall
GeoCities web hosting has been around since the very early days of the internet and while it’s not widely used anymore, it’s name still arouses...
Google Launches My Location for Google Maps
If you’ve ever used Google Maps on your iPhone or other mobile device, you’re probably familiar with My Location already. For those that aren’t, when...
Women & Our Online Behavior and Social Media Habits
SheSpeaks.com conducted a great survey of women’s online and computer habits, and published the results in a comprehensive 65-page document. It’s a fascinating study that...
Websites Where You Can Watch the Michael Jackson Memorial Online Today
Today is July 7, and if you’ve been paying any attention to the news in the past week, you’d know that that means today is...
Microsoft, Real, & Yahoo All Sued for Music Store Copyright Infringement
On Tuesday, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Real were named in a lawsuit filed by some music publishing companies claiming that each of their online music stores – Zune,...
Twitter Unveils New UI; What This Means for SEO
Yesterday Twitter sneakily unveiled a new user interface for both the “followers” and “following”. While I personally believe that their efforts could have been better...
Digg Rolls Out Revamped Content Duplication Detection Technology
On Tuesday Digg announced that they were finally rolling out some major updates to their duplicate detection technology, and let’s be honest – it’s about...
Google Android Version of Firefox Likely to be Developed
Google Android applications are currently written in Java and run off Google’s Dalvik Java virtual machine, however, that will soon change. Last week Google announced...
Google Invites News Publishers to Share Videos on YouTube
Google currently has more than 25,000 news sources that contribute content for Google News, and now they are inviting them to share professional news videos...
Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site
And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad. Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more...
Got Good Credit? Google Wants to Serve You Targeted Ads.
As a website owner myself, I have explored several different contextual ad platforms, and Google has always seemed to be ahead of their competitors in...
Hakia Serves Credible Results in New Search Interface
Recently Hakia extended a call to librarians and information professionals to help them in their quest to bring credible search results to the web on...
Google Launches “Google Moderator”, Posing the Question “What would YOU ask?”
I don’t know if I am slightly abnormal or just more politically interested than most, but I generally enjoy watching the presidential debates. I like...
Hakia Hopes to Expand Coverage, Enlisting the Help of Librarians
The semantic search engine known as “Hakia” currently generates credibility-stamped results for health and medical searches, which aims to point users in the direction of...
Will Google Renew the Browser Wars of the 1990’s?
After the introduction of their Chrome browser, some have suggested that Google may have just kicked off the beginning of a new era of the...
Google Maps’ Latest Addition: Walking Directions
Google Maps is a great tool for finding driving directions, as well as for getting a general overview of an area. Now they’ve added another...
Green Google Invests in Environmentally Friendly Plug-in Cars
Google has invested an undisclosed sum in two U.S. companies developing technologies for plug-in electric vehicles. The investment is a part of the company’s “RechargeIT”...
The GPhone May Not be Such a Myth Afterall
Last year tech sites were abuzz with rumors of the mythical Gphone – a mobile phone created by Google. Nothing came of it, and Google...
Court Orders YouTube to Hand Over Complete User Logs to Viacom
Viacom, if you recall, filed a $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube not too long ago. As part of the lawsuit, a court as now ordered...
Would the AP be better off owned by Google or another web company?
The newspaper business is slowly fading away and out of relevancy. By the time a story gets printed, it’s already broken in the online world. ...
Lawmakers Express Concern Over Yahoo-Google Deal
Following months of fending off a Microsoft takeover, Yahoo announced last week that they had entered into a non-exclusive advertising agreement with Google. Much in...
Microsoft Wants in on TV Ads, Snaps Up Navic Networks
Microsoft isn’t keen to be left behind in the yet to be fully explored area of targeted TV advertising. Google has been looking into this,...
BlackHat SEO: Is it really pure evil?
BlackHat SEO has a reputation, and it’s usually not a good one. Those who practice so-called “blackhat” SEO techniques are often branded as social outcasts,...
Google: YouTube Still Isn’t Making Us Money
One of Google’s biggest goals this year was to make YouTube profitable. Well the year is nearly half over, and they’ve still yet to figure...