Google Maps Getting More and More Popular

According to Hitwise, Google Maps is growing in popularity rapidly. While they have a long way to go to overtake the leader in the maps sector, Google Maps is the only major map site to see an increase in traffic over the last year.

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Facebook Especially Slow, Inaccessible?

WatchMouse monitored a total of 104 sites for performance issues, and many of them were entities that you probably haven't heard of (Rummble, Sconex, Woophy, etc.).  Now, guess which site scored worst?  Got a name in mind?  Did you think (this article's title aside) of Facebook?

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FCC Looking into Comcast

Back in November, we mentioned how Free Press and other groups wanted ISP/cable company Comcast brought before the FCC for the way the company imitated users on BitTorrent to terminate downloads. And now, the FCC will be looking into it—at least according to Chairman Kevin Martin, speaking at CES.

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Google vs. MSN on Paid Links and Cloaking

Don't buy paid links! Paid links are bad! Don't cloak either. Search engines don't allow it. You've all heard this before right?>>> What are your thoughts on paid links? Do you agree with Google's hard line? Comment here...

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Reznor’s Bad Internet Tax Idea

There’s a great interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails up at CNET, in which he talks about his experience with the Saul Williams album he recently released as a “pay what you want” download (which I wrote about here).

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