Seven Ways To Manage Your Wiki-Rep

Because of its high ranking in the search engine results, Wikipedia has become as necessary a place to be listed as the phone book. But a user-edited source can backfire when unfavorable information pops up in those same results, especially if the information is untrue.

New Search Engine Has Answers

A new search engine has launched called QueryCat that has indexed frequently asked questions (FAQ) from across the web and made them searchable.

Behavioral Targeting Becoming ‘Essential’

Now is the time to do some behavioral targeting before it's regulated. (Da guvmint is froggy on both sides of this issue, wanting at the same time to limit how much digital information is stored about users and to glean all they can from it for their own surveillance purposes.) Though people tend to be creeped out by how much marketers know about them, if…

Google Joins Linux-Oriented OIN

Google loves Linux, and as long as you share its enthusiasm, the search giant is willing to give you a hand.  That’s the gist, anyway, of a new agreement that makes Google a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN).

Check Your Email For Nuclear Secrets

Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory just can't seem to keep control of its data, as a consultant dropped an email into the inboxes of board members for a firm charged with keeping such data secure.