Ask’s InterActive Could Buy Confused.com

There’s a fair amount of commotion surrounding Confused.com; the site, which is “a one-stop shop to help you find out whether you can save money on your car or home insurance this year,” may be accepting acquisition bids of well over $1 billion.  And a potential buyer may be InterActiveCorp, the owner of Ask.com.

The Best Way To Get Link Love From .edu

On the surface this seems a little shady – at worst, it's evil genius at work; at best, it's a great tip for the powers of good, legitimate SEO operations. Joe Whyte, over at HybridSEM, recommends taking advantage of .edu job boards to boost your website's ranking in the search results. "The Best Way To Get Link Love From .edu"

Google Maps Goes Off Beaten Highway

There’s nothing quite like a stretch of wide-open road, but a clogged, backed-up highway doesn’t elicit the same feelings.  Somebody in Mountain View apparently realized this - or felt the need to catch up with the competition - and Google Maps now has an “avoid highways” option.

Zuckerberg Announces Open Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, sent the blogosphere into a digileptic (digital + epileptic) episode yesterday evening, announcing that Facebook was now officially open for you to tamper with.