Drilling Down: Red Web Sites Versus Blue Web Sites
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Sites popular with Republicans tend to be explicitly directed at conservatives, while Democratic sites contain relatively nonpolitical fare intended for a mostly black audience.
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The Web used to be a place where we went to seek information. But with the rise of social networks, we're barraged with a constant stream of data, requested or not
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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Redmond unveils its much-hyped search engine. Does the world change?
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Also: Science tattoos making the Web rounds. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Despite what Google and SEO gurus like Eric Ward tell you, you can easily use &#8217;smart&#8217; paid links to deliver the benefit of editorially earned organic links without tripping any filters or being detected as a &#8216;paid&#8217; link by Google. Let&#8217;s take two sites:  Site A is an established authority site in its niche with page 1 [...]
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Finding reliable statistics on the web isn't always easy, but a massive central data source called Nationmaster.com offers a handy way to search multiple stats repositories.
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A new Web site, Thoof, is an attempt to improve on sites like Digg and Reddit, where users filter and rank links to articles and blog entries.
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DynamicWebPages.de has their latest PHP Usage Statistics posted today. Things just keep looking up for PHP usage - this month it gained a good chunk of domains from last month.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)
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Portals and news sites have work to do, new study suggests.
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The web as your auld grannie might have wished it
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Teaching search engines to see Web pages the way people do could improve their performance.
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, &#8220;Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.&#8221; And while he&#8217;s dabbling with the concept of an open-source search engine, Dr. Riza C Berkan of Hakia.com believes the fix is in the semantics.  The CEO and founder of the &#8220;meanings&#8221; [...]
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Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion practices? Which ones are failing to do so?  A new report offers some surprising insights.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: The Great SEO Myths of our Time - Let's Test Hijacking A Google Listing - Internet Searches Getting Re-directed - Search Engines Offering SEO Services? - Shopping Search Arrives as an Important Vertical - Is Having A Yahoo Directory Listing A Hindrance? - Google Not Reporting All Backlinks