Matt Cutts Reins In Googlebot

Ahead of Search Engine Strategies 2006 conference in San Jose, Google's best-known engineer suggested some basic approaches to making a visiting Googlebot behave when it drops by your website.

Making A Corporate Blog A Success

Nick Denton of Gawker Media , one of the first successful bloggers, recently made some changes to his blogging empire. Apparently editors at Gawker, Wonkette, Gizmodo and Gridskipper were moved or replaced.

Google Scares eBay Into Changes

PayPal's president has been replaced by Skype's president, while eBay drops Google Checkout into the laundry list of alternative payment services banned by the online marketplace.

AOL To Give Away the Cow?

How many lost customers would it take before you seriously reconsidered your business strategy and services? 1000? A million? For AOL, it looks like the magic number of bird-flipping subscribers, worn thin by shoddy customer service and slow connections, was around eight million.