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Economic Recession Hits Online Advertising

USA today is reporting that online advertising in the United States decreased by 5% in the first quarter of 2009. The decline marks the first negative quarter in Web advertising since 2002, causing some economic analysts to claim that the worldwide economic recession has finally begun to have a [...]

China Cracks Down Further on Web Surfing

According to a new report on CNN.com, the Chinese government has passed a law requiring all new computers sold in China to include software to block so-called “harmful” web sites and content. The new law will go into effect on the second of July, and the blocking software is allegedly aimed at [...]

The Google Tax?

Anyone who has even remotely been paying attention will realize that Google has made a fortune online. The reasons for Google’s unprecedented success are many, but there has also been a certain amount of luck involved. Google got into the search engine business back in the Wild West days of [...]

What is WolframAlpha? And Should Google be Worried about It?

Every now and then some industrious soul will invent a new type of search engine. But inevitably, any new search engine is compared to Google. Specifically, “Will this one be the Google killer?” WolframAlpha is a new type of search tool that is causing quite a buzz, but the search [...]

Is Google Making the Internet Boring and Predictable?

The charge has been made so many times that it’s beginning to sound like a broken record: Google is too big for its own good. The latest example of Google’s total online dominance is the lesson learned by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. Wale’s “dared” to challenge [...]