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I guess this explains the problems we have been having with our Twitterment search engine for Twitter: Amazon S3 Down.

Knol is a new Google service created for sharing knowledge. The service has been announced in December 2007 and it's now publicly available.

If you have been thinking about setting up a membership site, I encourage you to take a look at Extreme Member. One of my students, Charles Parker, mentioned it to me last week, so I had to investigate further. They are offering 200 trial memberships for $2.95 for the first 15 days. If you have [...]

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

The NYT Bits blog has a post, Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages on Wikipedia’s proposed Flagged revisions/Sighted versions policy. This policy is currently being used in the German version of Wikipedia.

Have you put off writing your eBook because you just don’t like the writing process? You can write your entire eBook without writing anything more than an outline. Many people do not like to write, or feel that they do not write very well, so there is another way that will accomplish your goal of [...]

In May, we reported that Yahoo stopped enabling signs ups and enrollments for the Yahoo Ambassador Program. The Ambassador program is basically a higher level of support for the Yahoo Search Marketing product and service. Today, I noticed a WebmasterWorld...

At the most recent Google earnings call, Sergey Brin said some interesting things regarding the ads from search results pages. Google tries to reduce the number of ads that are displayed and the number of queries that show ads as it improves the targeting and the ads are more effective.

After seven months since it was announced, Google finally opens its Wikipedia-like web product KNOL to the public. I could understand why it took Google that long to launch Knol, for one it needs to populate the site first with relevant, enticing and interesting articles from its beta authors to make Knol appealing to the public. And so it did. Knol, currently has a slew of “authoritative” articles and the site certainly looks more a live site now.

Charlene Li
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Forrester Research

Recently named one of AdvertisingAge’s “Women to Watch 2008″

Here’s a Google suggested walk from London to Paris: 246 miles in 2 days 12 hours. Well, maybe five days if you are in good shape but need to sleep. Check out the part in the middle! Leave a comment with your favorite walk!

A Google Groups thread has discussion on the topic of dynamically creating pages to target localized searches. For example, this particular webmaster wants to be able to target 28 different zip codes for his client's A/C business. He summarizes what...

This afternoon I went to first showing of the afternoon of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight." About ten minutes before the scheduled start of the trailers ahead of the movie, I entered the theater seating about 300 -- one of seven in the multiplex on Third Avenue at ...

Flash Player is an extremely popular plugin for web browsers, that's obvious. What I find amazing about it isn't that its on nearly every computer that connects to the Internet, but that it gets updated so quickly. Recent stats show that about 80% of users update to the latest version of the Flash Player within 6 months of release.

The Yahoo Plan B group, composed of 150 Yahoo stockholders with their 3.2 million Yahoo shares, are set to ask the current Yahoo leadership to accept a compromise board which will be composed of 5 current Yahoo Board members and four nominees from the Icahn slate. (more…)