Nikki Catsouras has achieved Internet immortality. She was an 18-year-old college freshman living in California with her parents and two sisters in 2006. Nikki Catsouras loved to shoot videos on her camera, according to ABC News, and...
Ya-Who? Seems Microsoft has already forgotten the Sunnyvale search engine. Microsoft has agreed to buy Powerset, the semantic search engine touted as the next generation of search. Powerset is the much-hyped beta natural language search engine...
Journalists are a dying breed. Newspapers face death by Internet. It's time to rethink journalism as a career choice.
Going where no man - or search engine - has gone before, Everyscape has launched an online mapping feature that allows people to go inside shops and restaurants. Users can navigate through neighborhoods and tourist sites. A special icon next...
In conversion marketing, the best leads go to the person who best understands the personas of their prospective customers and will spend the time to continuously improve their marketing by refining the alignment between those personas, their...
Rotten Neighbors, founded last July, is the U.S. twist on "
In China, vigilantes use the Internet as a “human flesh search engine” to find and punish people who publish material they consider inappropriate. The term is an imprecise translation of “ren'rou sou'suo,” meaning “human-assisted search engine.
Google Maps features a very funny Google Easter Egg. Ask for directions from an address in Australia to an address in the USA the ever helpful "Get directions" tool gives some dubious tips on how to cross the Pacific Ocean. They suggest a Kayak.
The hottest Google search of the blockbuster movie summer is "Wesley Gibson." The film "Wanted" features a Matrix-like opening with star James McAvoy playing a working stiff unaware of his super powers (as an assasssin) just as Keanu Reeves...
CNN/crime nailed one Google search crime story but missed the other. CNN caught the man who murdered his wife and daughter but missed the sex offender practicing medicine in Florida. Neil Entwistle, the British husband and father who did a...
How many maps would a mapmaker make if a mapmaker could make maps online? Google will soon have the answer. Today Google launched Google Map Maker, a new product that enables users to contribute and edit Maps data for regions around the world....
Google is the world leader among search engines and even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has conceded Google's won the search game. But most people don't think of Google as an offline information service - until they try GOOG 411. Canadians now...
A New York Supreme Court judge has tossed out a $100 million lawsuit against the ex-employees a doctor blames for associating his name online with hard-core porn Web sites - and creating his own obsession with Googling his name, according to the...
Today is the first day of summer. Google is celebrating the summer solstice with a hot, new Google Doodle. "When does summer start?" is always one of the most popular questions people ask. Today is the longest day of the year. There are...
Call Scott Richter the $6 Million Man of MySpace. For the self-proclaimed "Spam King," lawsuit losses are becoming just another cost of doing business. "Spam King" Scott Richter must pay $6 million in legal fees and damages to MySpace for...
Tech savvy UK teens are using Google Earth's aerial shots to create the latest summertime craze – pool crashing. The Register Hardware site confirmed several pool trespassing cases with local UK police. Google Earth is used to locate suitable...
Kate Knight, 28, from Wirral, was convicted of attempting to murder Lee Knight by lacing his food with ethylene glycol, had her appeal rejected by the Court of Appeal. The jury heard Knight used internet search engine Google to find a method...
Registration opened today for Google Code Jam 2008. Programmers will use their coding skills, creativity, and ingenuity to solve a series of challenges. The top 500 contestants will win an all-expenses paid trip to the semifinals at regional...
Firefox 3 will be released today which makes today Firefox Download Day 2008. To build its user base, Mountain View-based Mozilla will attempt a Guinness World's Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. You can download Firefox...
The most talked-about book in the search engine industry was just bought by Atlantic Books' editor-in-chief Ravi Mirchandani. He bought the investigation into internet superpower Google by New York Times columnist Randall Stross. Planet...
