Behavioral Analysis: Is Claria Building the Next Great Search Engine?

Claria's RelevancyRank, a search technology under development, challenges Google, Yahoo, and MSN with a comparison of where they would rank the sites that RelevancyRank (based on behavioral indicators that Claria gathers by following users around with its adware) would rank in the top ten for the phrase "cheap tickets."

Did Ask Partner With Looksmart For New Ad Service?

Since the announcement of Ask Jeeves launching their own branded search advertising service, many were surprised Ask would elect to leave Google's AdWords service seeing how financially successful the partnership was for both parties.

How Does Flickr Rank Your Interestingness?

Yahoo's photo sharing service, Flickr, added a couple of interesting features yesterday to help surfers navigate the immense number of photos uploaded onto the site. The more, um, interesting feature rates a photo's "interestingness." Other words you didn't know existed: frogery, abligurition, euneirophrenia, flocinaucinihilipiliphication, and zenzizenzizenzic.

Mozilla Goes From Non-Profit to Profit

Mozilla, who has been a non-profit organization in the form of the Mozilla Foundation, has now changed about not taking in any profits, and has formed the Mozilla Corporation.