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Microsoft and Yahoo both employ intelligent, well-educated men and women. Carl Icahn's pretty sharp, too. Recent acquisition dealings seem to have turned…
Google search engine ranking team Google Fellow Amit Singhal published a blog post “Introduction to Google Ranking” at the official Google blog. While not going into the specific nuts-and-bolts factors influencing SERPs (or search engine results pages), Amit outlined a number of broad principles to keep in mind when optimizing your web pages.
That possible sanction for Comcast's admitted use of traffic shaping software to interfere with customer broadband accounts when using peer to peer software apparently evaporated after further review.
Fake Steve Jobs, outed some time ago as Forbes' Daniel Lyons, is retiring his satirical blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" thus ending one of the more enduring runs as pop Web iCon.
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts—those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence—then why bother existing? Fortunately, computers have yet to match us in music or writing or dancing or even drawing—the lines are straighter, but that's not even the point, and good luck uploading an actual right-brained imagination.*
The US Senate is holding a series of hearings on online advertising, behavioral targeting and privacy to determine whether they should consider legislation protecting consumers online in these areas. The Senate has turned to Google, Microsoft, the FTC, Facebook, privacy watchdogs and others for their opinions in the matter. Some, like Google, welcomed a “comprehensive privacy law that would establish a uniform framework for privacy…
