Twitter Used To Report Earthquake

Twitter doesn't always work well; its frequent outages have earned it all sorts of negative attention.  It has at least partially redeemed itself, though, as Twitter was one of the first sites on which news of the earthquake in China appeared.

Powerset Follows Hype With Debut

After a lot of blog buzz, Powerset finally launched its search engine with the initial aim at pulling information out of Wikipedia more effectively.

Cutts: Money The Root Of Spam

The profit motive drives spammers to do anything they can to get their offers in front of an audience, because somewhere out there, someone probably will buy into their scams.

Google’s Safe Search Filters

Over the past few months, some webmasters have complained that images on their sites were wrongly nabbed by Google Images' safe search feature. This means, of course, a significant reduction in audience size.