More Baby Boomers Embracing Web 2.0

Google Enacts New Privacy Precautions

You've probably seen more gracious behavior from 6-year-olds who have lost a game of Monopoly.  Still, even if the company's not thrilled about it, Google's agreed to take new steps to protect users' privacy.The main development relates to anonymizing IP addresses on corporate server logs after nine months instead of eighteen.  It's no secret that the EU regulators and other watchdogs pushed Google on this…

Google Gets More Integrated Into TV Advertising

As more television makes the transition to the Internet, Google is doing its part to bring a little of the Internet back to television. It is doing so through a newly signed deal with NBC Universal (NBCU) in a move to help NBCU attract "new kinds" of advertisers.

Yahoo! News Getting Redesign, Good for Blogs

Yahoo! News has a new redesign in the works, and in a move that will make many bloggers and "citizen journalists" happy, they are giving some love to blog posts that are covering popular news stories. On what appears to be each article page, there is a section for "most blogged" within the particular category you happen to be in.

Company Loses Competitor Keywords In Metatags Dispute

In a reversal of what is generally considered the real world and what is virtual, metatags suddenly matter in a court of law, even if they haven’t mattered online for some time now. For one defendant, they matter as much as just under a half-million dollars matters. Dropping keywords into the metatags of a website is an old school SEO technique. And by old school…

Google’s New News Archive

 Google announced they’ve expanded their Google News Archive search to now show much more historical newspapers.