Before today, I don’t think I’d ever heard of the British National Party – guess I need to brush up on my racist, far-right organizations. But it would seem that Vodafone and five other major corporations know the name, and they pulled out of deals with Facebook after their ads were placed on the BNP’s profile page.
Porn Blogger Has To Pay While Others Get Off
We’ll try to get through this with as few inappropriate cracks as possible. The porn star/blogger Barbie Cummings, the one who a little while back opted out of illegal drug charges will still have to pay her speeding ticket.
Google Image Search Bests Others In Britain
In Britain, Google UK is king – no surprises there. What’s interesting is that Google Image Search is also doing incredibly well, and a report from Hitwise (released earlier today) examines the relationship between the two.
Google Grows, Others Slow
At this point you start to wonder why bother: Google reins supreme in the realm of search, Yahoo doesn’t, neither does Microsoft, and everybody else might as well hang it up.
MGoogle Grows, Others Slow
TechCrunch, Others Love Linux, MySQL
A survey by Pingdom of seven heavily visited websites found plenty of Apache web servers and PHP coding on their platforms, where Linux carries the platform and MySQL handles the database needs.
Posts that Share with Others – Link Roundups
Blog posting ideas present an ongoing challenge for even the most experienced and creative bloggers.
Google Subpoenas Others On Book Search
Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon.com will have to tell Google about their book scanning activities, including titles of works they have scanned, as Google works to fend off litigation from publishers and authors over the Google Book Search program.
CNet, Others Under Options Investigation
Federal prosecutor Kevin Ryan of the Northern California U.S. Attorney’s office announced the formation of a Justice and FBI task force to investigate several tech firms over the practice of backdating stock options.
Time Warner, Others To Pay $23M Settlement
Accusations of fraud and improper accounting practices at AOL led to lawsuits against Time Warner in 2004 because of their effect on pension and investment funds in Pennsylvania.
Shocker: Google Still Leads The Others
(Yawn.) In March, Google was again (yaawwwn, excuse me) the leader in all things search, according to comScore Networks, with competitors nowhere near matching the number of search queries or percentage of market. In fact, Yahoo and MSN slipped a bit.