RIAA’s Newest Enemy: The Social Network

They've been railing against peer-to-peer for some time now, and more recently have put the squeeze on webcasters via royalty hikes, but it looks like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has added a new foe to its ever-expanding list: social networkers.

Politics Play In Kentucky Net Bans

State workers in Kentucky's capitol have been suspended for using the Internet. Not for illegal or questionable activities, but for reading news, doing searches, and shopping.

Google Tweak Decimates Answers.com’s Traffic

A small tweak here . . . and a 28 percent plummet there.  Yeah, that’s right - Google adjusted its algorithm, and according to Answers.com itself, traffic to the Answers “information portal” has dropped dramatically as a result.

The Broadband Gap In The U.S.

The U.S. ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Almost Half of Search Queries Are Repeats

Forty percent of all search queries are repeat queries from users trying to find information they have found before, according to a new study. But if there has been a change in search result rankings since the last time the query was entered, it significantly hinders the searcher from re-finding the information they seek.