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Have you ever checked out Google's Insights for Search? Basically it's a set of tools launched last summer that let you look…
Microsoft has been in the St. Patrick's Day spirit this month. On the Live Search Blog, they recently reported that the number of people searching for green beer increased by 940% when March started. Microsoft has also taken the opportunity to map out the routes for St. Patrick's Day parades and highlight items like Irish pubs in Live Search Maps.
Online video has grown by 10% in the UK in terms of its audience during the past year. It is up to 29.6 million unique viewers age 15 and older according to research from comScore. 4 billion videos were viewed online in the UK in January alone. 99.5 million (2.5%) of these were watched on the sites of the top 5 TV broadcasters: the BBC,…
Google is now showing ads on Google News pages that show full-text articles. These are the articles which Google itself hosts. In case you're unfamiliar with these Google-hosted articles, back in 2007, Google News started offering original source content from a variety of publishers like the AP, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association, the Canadian Press, etc. This was to give special treatment to "original sources."
The World Wide Web turned 20 years old last Friday, and its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, says its potential is hardly reached. His next vision, a vision he’s been talking about for years, is the Semantic Web, which on the surface seems as simple as herding cats. But don’t let the specifics bog down a perfectly good concept with just the right amount of vagueness to…
Still waiting for change you can believe in? Well, believe this: the White House just declared an intellectual property treaty a state secret and denied Freedom of Information Act requests asking that it reveal the details of an international treaty that could have huge effects on how information is disseminated online.
