Google Rolls Out New Experimental Search Features
Google has created an experimental search page and has added some new features to its "alternative views" experiment from last May.Map view is one of the new features described in the official Google Blog. Andrew Hogue writes," you’d like to sit back and enjoy some jazz around town. This information is on the web and accessible through regular web search, but probably spread out over many sites and pages."
FCC Sends YouTubers Searching For Butt Scene
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) thought long and hard about whether Charlotte Ross’s buttocks were both shocking and titillating. Five years later, they’ve decided they were indeed, and are fining 52 ABC stations $1.4 million.
SiteTruth Wants You to Know Who You’re Dealing With
It’s no wonder that your customers have learned to be a bit wary on the Web. Spam steals their attention. Scams steal their money. Phishing steals their very identities. Some of your customers are relying on search engines to separate the wheat from the chaff. If your company shows up at the top of the search results, searchers assume that it’s because your company is reputable, but John Nagle thinks Google needs some help.
Books Most Purchased Item Online
Globally, the most popular items to purchase online are books with 41 percent of Internet users doing so in the last three months according to Nielsen Online.Among U.S. Internet users 38 percent bought books in the past month. In the UK 45 percent of Internet users have bought books online and in Germany 55 percent had done the same.
Steve Jobs Says You’re Out of Touch
That’s right. As you’re reading this, let me be the first to tell you, you’re hopelessly out of touch with the world according to Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. 40% percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Local Ads To Increase Faster Than Online Ads
Local advertising will increase by 13 percent from 2007 to 2012,faster than online advertising as a whole, which will see 12 percent growth during the same period according to a JupiterResearch report, "US Online Local Advertising Forecast, 2007-2012."
Has Target Learned its Lesson?
Last week I watched the blog storm surrounding Target’s decision not to talk to a blogger, because it only focused on traditional media outlets.
The SmugMug Privacy Hole
There’s a massive privacy hole over at photo hosting site SmugMug.com.
How Bloggers Will Save Journalism
After declaring (again) the death (or at least the dying) of print, bloggers and academics have clothed their straw man with proposals that include even government subsidies. It’s not just print that’s in peril, but real, investigative, long-form journalism. But print’s not dead yet, neither is the argument, and bloggers might just lead the resuscitation efforts for journalism itself.
One Laptop Per Child Needs a Spreadsheet Solution
Dan Bricklin has ported the SocialCalc spreadsheet to the OLPC XO as an Open Source project.