Wikipedia Results Good or Bad for Google News?

Well, the news organizations must love this one. With all of the controversy that has been going on in the online news world, and in particular, the tension between big news organizations and Google, it must have come as a surprise to a lot of people to learn that Google News is now featuring Wikipedia entries in its results.

Google’s New Cloud Table Collaboration Experiment

Google has introduced a new Lab called Google Fusion Tables, which is described as "an experimental system for data management in the cloud." It allows users to upload tables of up to 100MB and share them with collaborators.

Killing Bad Search Results with Reputation Management

A company called Visible Technologies has just released a new online reputation management solution. It's called TruRepuation, and aims to provide individuals and companies alike an effective way to manage their reputation in search engine results.

Feds Freeze Online Poker Payments

Federal prosecutors have ordered four U.S. banks to freeze payments of more than $30 million owed to people who play online poker. The frozen payments are owed to 27,000 online poker players at four offshore sites, including PokerStars.com and FullTiltPoker.com, according to John Pappas, the executive director of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), an advocacy group.