Google’s Cutts Apologizes For Paid Post Snafu

Jaws dropped last week upon the news Google penalized its own Japanese site in Google search results after discovering Google Japan participated in a pay-per-post blogging scheme. Webproworld Video caught up with Google’s anti-spam-team captain, Matt Cutts, who offers his apologies.

Yahoo Celebrates Five Years Of In-House Search

Google became Yahoo's default search results provider on June 26th, 2000.  On February 18th, 2004, Yahoo ended the deal.  Now, the Sunnyvale-based company is celebrating the five-year anniversary of its decision to tackle search technology on its own. 

eBay, eTrade, Priceline Bottom Of Customer Satisfaction Heap

For the first time in three years, overall customer satisfaction with e-commerce has fallen, ending steady growth over the same period, according ForeSee Results’ annual American Customer Satisfaction Index. At the bottom of the customer satisfaction barrel: eTrade, eBay, and Priceline.