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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...