In the hubbub of the privacy concerns, MIT's Technology Review points out that some significant technology developments are being missed in Google's Gmail service. In particular, the use of very clever browser scripting creates an application that, unlike other web...
continue reading »
A contest held to see who could garner the best search engine rankings for a made up phrase ("nigritude ultramarine") was taken by well-known blogger Anil Dash. His strategy seems to have consisted of appealing to his many readers to...
continue reading »
A Yahoo study of 37,000 email users found that Americans fall into two categories: those that ignore spam and don't care much about it, and those who are very knowledgeable and active in thwarting it. Four out of five delete...
continue reading »
The Chinese information ministry is backing a new search engine effort in a public-private partnership called China Communication Corporation. The budding search engine, called Acoona, reportedly refers to 30 million business sites and can search based on words and phrases...
continue reading »
Taking a page from China's public policy rulebook, Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance restricting access to cyber cafes for minors and requiring Internet providing establishments to install video cameras. The cafes will need a police permit to operate....
continue reading »
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled a privacy case against the company that produces the Hooked on Phonics educational tapes. The FTC had charged that the company had rented its email list to third parties in violation of its original...
continue reading »
British ad spending is set to increase in the single digits this year, but online advertising - separated out for the first time in the Advertising Association's figures - will rocket upward about 53 percent. The group predicted growth in...
continue reading »
In a very tight 180 degree turn, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) said that CEO H. Robert Wientzen would retire more or less on time and be replaced by John A. Greco Jr. Just last week, the DMA said that...
continue reading »
Internet bellwether Yahoo's second quarter profits doubled from last year's, meeting market expectations but apparently falling short of the "whisper numbers" for which investors and analysts had been hoping. In after market trading, Yahoo tumbled about ten percent. Online advertising...
continue reading »
The Googles from Goo, a set of children's characters developed by Googles.com, appear to have the senior trademark on their name, and now they're claiming search engine giant Google is infringing it by dipping into the category with services like...
continue reading »
