The search industry may profit from increased PPC advertising cash. However, forum and blog comment spam will no doubt increase and endless new content will hit the web, taxing search engine crawlers. ...

Facebook Questions beta is the social site's most recent feature launch. It allows users to crowdsource their own questions by submitting them to all of Facebook's 500 million users as well as to all their friends. This seemingly 'innocent' feature is in fact a powerful tool that challenges all 'traditional' search engines, photo search engines and location-based services. Here's why. Click to read the rest of this post...

The world’s most popular online trust mark, the VeriSign seal has helped web sites increase transactions an average of 24%. To maximize incoming traffic, the Trust Seal is displayed next to your search result in leading search engines and prevents your site from being blacklisted. *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Coinstar's Redbox announced today that it is has started rolling out Blu-ray rentals. The company says titles will be available at 13,300 kiosks nationwide. "Offering Blu-ray rentals is an exciting opportunity for redbox to expand our product offerings and build on the relationships that we've established with millions of consumers nationwide," said Mitch Lowe, president, redbox.  "Redbox is a convenient, affordable home entertainment provider and we're delighted to offer consumers their ...

Google Earth is meant to give its users a realistic view of the world, and the program by and large accomplishes that.  A new upgrade will make it even more accurate, though, by showing users whether or not they'd be getting wet if they were to visit certain parts of the globe. Yes, Google Earth 5.2 is now supposed to account for both rain and snow - everything "from light drizzle and snow to hurricanes and blizzards," in fact - at least in some regions of North America and Europe.  As ...

That’s one of the big questions people are asking after yesterday’s launch of Facebook Questions. While many have assumed the answer would be “yes,” a Facebook spokesperson tells us that assumption is wrong. Currently, search engines cannot access questions and answers through our Questions product. That may be something we consider for the future but have [...] *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***