Stocks Up Thanks To GDP

Yesterday, U.S. stocks fell due as a result of rising oil prices, but today the picked back up thanks to a government report saying that the gross domestic product has grown more than expected.

Spitzer Goes After AIG

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed civil charges against American International Group (AIG) and its former CEO, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg.

Kevin Bidwell Responds To AdSense Hijack

A couple days ago, it was widely reported a certain Google result had been hijacked by another site using redirect technology. However, the site owner responsible for the presumed hijack disagreed with the assessment and would like to offer an explanation.

First Quarter GDP Beats Expectations

Last month, the gross domestic product for the U.S. was estimated to grow at a rate of 3.1% in the first quarter of this year. The rate turned out to be bigger than that according to a report released today by the Commerce Department.

Trouble at the ODP

The Open Directory Project is the largest human edited directory of web sites and documents existing online at this time. While many search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN maintain larger databases of electronically spidered sites, the volunteer editors at the ODP read, sort and classify all submitted content before it is added to their search-database.