Google Helps Identify Anonymous Blogger

Free speech has always been an irritant to those who become the target of it; freedom in general is a frightening concept to some because of the broad blanket it throws over the righteous and the sinful alike. And as always it seems many people support the freedom concept so long as it supplies protections for the liberties they themselves choose to enjoy—enjoy the wrong…

Google Takes Google Update Open Source

Google Update, which is now being referred to as Omaha, is a program that installs requested software and keeps it up to date. It comes with Google products like Google Chrome and Google Earth for Windows.

Google Goes the Privacy Route for YouTube in South Korea

Last month, reports came out indicating that Google might have to make YouTube users in South Korea confirm their real identities if they wanted to upload or comment on content. There is a law in that country that went into effect on April 1st, that requires users to provide their ID numbers and would require Google to turn over information to the South Korean government…

Facebook, MySpace Make Profile And App Recommendations

Some VIP-ish individuals and application developers are about to become a lot more popular.  In what seems like a pair of noncommercial moves, Facebook and MySpace are starting to direct users towards various profiles and apps. 

Matt Cutts Answers Canonicalization Tag Question

Google's Matt Cutts continues to post helpful videos at Google's Webmaster Central YouTube channel, in which he answers user questions. The latest question he tackles comes from a guy in Chicago who asks: Does the new canonicalization tag make it safe to add tracking arguments to some of my internal links without fear that Google will split the quality signals between the two addresses?