EU Says Internet Can Boost Economy

More than half (56%) of Europeans are now regular Internet users compared to one third in 2004, according to a new report from the European Commission. Half of households and more than 80 percent of businesses now have a broadband connection. The most active Internet users are those between the ages of 16 to 24 with 73 percent of them regularly using advanced services to…

New Delicious Search and Homepage Features

Delicious has unveiled some new feature enhancements to the homepage, including a new system to aggregate and rank recently bookmarked links every minute. This feature can be found under the new and default Fresh tab.

Google News Organizes a Lot More of the World’s Information

Last year, Google News began digitizing newspapers to make them accessible and searchable online. Those interested in the online news industry and its relationship to newspapers will be interested to know that Google has quadrupled the number of articles included in the Google News Archive Search since the initiative began in September. Articles are coming from new sources like: