Google In Court Over New AdWords Policy

Google's newest policy concerning bidding on trademarked slogans for AdWords purposes has come under fire. French insurance company AXA has filed suit against the search engine for allowing others to bid on keywords that AXA has trademarked.

Web Accessibility and Your Business

One of the things I find I'm most often fighting with my peers and competitors is the need for your website to be accessible. An Accessible website is a website that caters to the needs of handicapped individuals and people using alternative web browsing methods like third party browsers, PDA's and the like. As a business owner, it is important to have a website that…

File and Email Encryption With GnuPG (PGP) Part Four

GnuPG and other PGP implementations allow you to encrypt (scramble the data so only intended recipients can read it) and/or sign (provide proof that the data has been unaltered in transit). As you should remember, PGP keys are made up of two parts, a public key and a private key. The public key can (and in most cases should) be available to anyone - there's…

Google’s JewWatch Controversy Continues

Has Google manually intervened on the results of the keyword "Jew"? As reported here, this particular keyword search's top result was JewWatch.com, a site considered by many to be anti-Semitic.

Google’s Broken Heart: PageRank Under Attack

"The heart of our software is PageRank." This quote, from Google's PageRank description page, contradicts opinions and hypothesis posted on forums, blogs and articles around the web. One search developer even called PageRank "a silly idea in practice." Evidence points to Google not using "classic PageRank" in their algorithm at all these days, and many consider it all but dead.