Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Medstory

Seeking no doubt to improve upon its dismal figures in the search market, Microsoft revealed plans today to acquire Medstory, a company that develops search technology for those operating specifically within the healthcare sector.

Controlling How Your Site Is Indexed

Over at the Google Blog, Dan Crow is publishing a series of how-to's about controlling what the Googlebot says about your site through the Robots Exclusion Protocol. This is the cheap-and-easy version. Don't Index That Link!

YouTube Shoots For The NBA

The National Basketball Association has teamed with Google’s YouTube for the launch of “Post Up the NBA” which will be on the new NBA Channel on YouTube. The new channel will allow fans to show off their skills by submitting video clips of their best basketball moves. It will also offer original NBA content for the remainder of the season.

Adwords Editor Version 3

Google have now released Adwords Editor version 3. I am a little suprised the Inside Adwords blog does not accounce these new releases straight away so everyone can update. So whats new with version 3?

TechCrunch, Others Love Linux, MySQL

A survey by Pingdom of seven heavily visited websites found plenty of Apache web servers and PHP coding on their platforms, where Linux carries the platform and MySQL handles the database needs.