YouTube Scopes Out Concept Of Movie Rentals

According to a fresh report, YouTube is in talks with some of Hollywood's biggest movie studios to make more new releases available through the site.  What might be problematic in many users' eyes is that YouTube and the movie studios are also weighing the idea of charging a rental fee for access. 

Bing Readies Sharing Feature for Search Results

Microsoft is working on a new feature for Bing called "Bing and Ping." This is a means to share your search results with friends. Bing's "decision engine" nature provides plenty of content that users may actually want to share. Nicholas Kerr of the Bing Team explains:

Digg Nofollow Links: Matt Cutts Approved

Yesterday, Digg announced that it was changing the way it handles some links with regards to the nofollow attribute. The point of the changes is to cut down on Digg spam. Digg is now adding rel="nofollow" to any external link that they aren't sure they can "vouch for." This means:     - External links from comments     - External links from user profiles

Google Celebrates a Year of Chrome

Today Google celebrated the first birthday of Chrome, the company's web browser. Google shares the following stats for what Chrome has seen over the past year:

Is PageRank Affected by Google Links?

In the latest Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel upload from Matt Cutts, he talks about whether or not Google places value on its own links with regards to Pagerank. Cutts took on the following user question: Question: Does Google value its own links for PR/Linkjuice? Google Bookmarks, Google Profiles, etc. Reason - Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools.