A New York legislator with an apparent history of odd child-protection measures (like a war on tanning beds) has dropped his lawsuit alleging that Google is the “world’s largest facilitator and distributor of child pornography.”
Gannett Discovers Local Search
The newspaper publisher picked up Planet Discover, a local search and integrated advertising technology company, for its publication websites.
PBS.org Discovers The Joy Of AdWords
An experiment in using contextual advertising to raise funds for the Public Broadcasting Service brought Google’s ubiquitous advertising to the broadcaster’s website.
NYT Discovers SEO
A story that ran in last Sunday’s New York Times shows that the world of mainstream journalism is finally waking up to the importance of SEO.
IBM Discovers What Willis Is Talking About
The same day as PubSub’s announcement about a similar service aimed at harnessing the ever-evolving information-overloaded blogosophere and using that power for good, IBM introduced new software enabling businesses to make sense of and manage information emerging from social networks about their company-a type of gossip monitor, called Public Image Monitoring Solution.
FoxNews Discovers Googlebombing
One big network arrives just a teensy bit late to the search engine party as it discovers odd links to “failure.”
MSN Discovers The Joys Of Whitespace
White is the new blue, as MSN experiments with a new look for its home page with a beta test.
Discovery Discovers Problem, Launch Canceled
The first NASA space shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster of 2003 was delayed again today as a problem with Discovery’s fuel sensors surfaced.
NASA Discovers Alien Light
According to NASA, their Spitzer Space Telescope has for the first time captured the light from two known planets orbiting stars other than our Sun.