Nothing’s Certain ‘Cept Wikipedia and Taxes

Humans are predictable creatures, but it's interesting nonetheless to see seasonal trends depicting where everybody's going online. January 2007, according comScore, was for taxes, job-hunting, and vacation planning, among a couple of trendy surprises. But the most significant change in traffic was to Wikipedia, which entered the top ten domains for the first time. Also, as somebody-anybody sentiments rise, visits to potential presidential candidate websites…

Yahoo India Denies Stealing Recipes

Following claims that Yahoo India stole content from some other businesses’ blogs, the company’s representatives want everyone to know that “we do not admit of [sic] any copyright violation.” The content in question, by the way, was a recipe.

Search Tool Increases Online Sales For Retailer

Fry, Inc, a ecommerce design, development and managed services provider, has announced that the Web site design and re-launch of ShoeMall.com increased sales for the online retailer by 44 percent in 2006.

Google Reader To Report Subscriber Numbers

Publishers asked for it, and the Google Reader team listened. Engineer Justin Haugh announced earlier today that the company’s crawler now “reports the number of Google users subscribed to the feed.”