Online Newspaper Traffic Up 10 Percent

While the newspaper industry continues to struggle, one bright spot is online visitors to newspaper Web sites increased 10.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009 attracting an average of 73.3 million monthly unique visitors, according to a report from Nielsen Online commissioned by the Newspaper Association of America.

Google Shows Off 2 New Toolbar Labs

Google has introduced two new Google Toolbar Labs features. There is one with "My Location," and a simplified Chinese Toolbar. "One of the best things about working on the Google Toolbar team is that when someone says 'Wouldn't it be great if Toolbar could...,' our answer is usually 'Yes! Let's build it!"' And then it's just a question of when," the Toolbar Product Team says.

Bloggers Replacing the AP?

Yes, the AP (Associated Press) is desperate. Yes, the AP has lost control of the news. And yes, bloggers are more and more going local with their focus. That leads to an obvious question, will bloggers eventually replace the AP and other news organizations?

Google Profiles Go to the SERPs

Google as a social network has been getting a bit more play recently as they have made certain moves like giving users the ability to create vanity URLs for their profiles. One wild card that Google has that trumps all other social networks is that it is the largest brand on the web. Furthermore, it is the largest search engine.