The story about Department of Justice attorneys filing suit in federal court for access to Google’s databases exploded across the Internet, and it appears they out of the big four search engines resisted prior requests for that information.
Up Against the Jordan Bulls of Search
I don’t think there’s anything inherently virtuous in rooting for the underdog (unless that underdog is journeyman Paul Shirley) but I loathed the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls.
Google Stock Brushing Against $400
Investors could be partying like it’s 1999 again if GOOG manages to clamber over the $400 per share barrier, hitting a price that even the height of the dot-com era would have seen as excessive.
Revolting Against Blog Spam
Call this one “How I learned to quit kvetching about spam filled blogs and actually do something about it,” courtesy of one blogger’s call to arms.
Cutts Up Against The Wall
Over the weekend, Aaron Wall got a chance to talk to Google’s “Mick Jagger of Search”, Matt Cutts, in an in depth interview. The interview covers a variety of topics including SEO and spam, algorithms and the evil that Google does.
Sun Turns Up Volume Against Windows Vista and Office 12
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s COO: The Value in Volume (this was posted Saturday, and definitely teases us about what’s coming today).
Microsoft On Offensive Against EU
The European Union request for Microsoft to share source code with third parties has drawn a second appeal from Redmond.
Email Delivery & The War Against Spam
The war is afoot between legitimate senders of mass email and spammers. There is an ever-increasing number of tools, in the form of algorithms and list management tools. These tools will affect email delivery and reduce the amount of spam that has hijacked the email industry.
MSN Blogs Against it’s Customers
Honestly, I couldn’t give a crap about MSN. Anyone who blogs there, or reads them, doesn’t know the whole story.
Yuan Now Pegged Against a Basket
After a decade of being pegged to the U.S. dollar, China’s yuan currency has now been revalued by 2.1%, pegged against what they call a “basket of currencies”.