France Fines Google $142,000

Google is more than a major corporation – it’s a virtual monopoly with its hand in almost every portion of the technology pie. It’s also a key global player, with a dominant presence in the strong majority of European countries, not to mention all of North America. But that size and reach comes at a […]


Microsoft Video Content Reaches Second Place Rank

The Internet is a broad and beautiful place, and there’s a huge variety of possible tasks and activities to get lost in. One of the most popular, however, is watching internet videos. In February alone, approximately 5 billion internet videos were watched, with 82.5 percent of all net users accessing video at some point throughout […]


Yahoo Releases “Search Direct”

Our conception of search has changed dramatically over the last few years. We’ve transitioned from a focus on “keyword repetition” to “appropriate keyword saturation” to “link popularity” to “latent semantic indexing,” and even beyond. However, the last several months have shown an even more tremendous upheaval in how we perceive search results. This started with […]