Live.com Plays Referrer Stats Games

While it is common, nowadays, to whine how Google shouldn't tell people how to make money with their websites (like selling links), this time Microsoft has done the same. Lately, it's been noticed that Live.com spams the referrer logs of the websites, claiming that it is only about quality check.

Google and BizRate.com Break Up

Google Checkout Makes Shopping Sites Undesirable As Google Checkout ramps up, many thin arbitrage / shopping aggregator sites are going to see a significant love loss from Google. In September Andrew Goodman wrote a piece on how paid search and organic search quality criteria may play off each other, after coming across a post on Inside AdWords where Google stated that some types of sites…

Google Helping the Autistic with Project Spectrum

Take a look at this video, where Google explains Project Spectrum, an effort by Google to help those with autism take advantage of their gifts for working and expressing themselves visually using Google SketchUp, its free 3D modeling software: