Public Speaks Out On Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission's official Net Neutrality inquiry ended Monday, but not before a deluge of public comments in support flooded in.

What’s Up at Yahoo?

I have a personal policy of not investing in companies in the tech industry (I own some Microsoft stock, but that’s just cause I’m too lazy to sell it) but if I did I’d be buying some Yahoo tonight. I met several employees, including Jeff Weiner, executive vice president, and they were more upbeat about the company’s prospects than I’ve seen from Yahooians in years.…

What Semantic Search is Not

You may have heard the term "semantic search," but do you really know what it is? Some people have very big ideas of how computers will understand the meaning of text, but today's semantic search falls far short of that. Regardless, what's possible today is still very useful. To understand how hard it is for computers to really understand the meaning of text, let's not…

Google Expands Print Ads

Google said today it would expand its Google Print Ads advertising initiative. The program launched in November 2006 with a test of 50 newspapers and a small group of advertisers.

Adsense in Password Protected Areas

Google just posted up on their Adsense blog that there is a new feature called site authentication. The gist of it is that this feature will allow you to set up a user name and password for the Adsense robot. It can then go in and crawl your password protected pages (much like a registered user) and thus begin showing relevant ads.