A couple of Harvard boys took a survey of typosquatting web sites — sites that take advantage of common misspellings — and found nearly 1 million sites taking advantage of the top 3,264. All those sites mean a whopping $497 million in ad revenue for Google. To the researchers, Google’s funding and ad [...more]
More and more evidence is rolling out to prove that the internet is the greatest time-waster mankind has ever created. In the month of December 2009, 178 million internet users in the US watched 33 billion online videos. Of those 33 billion videos, 40% or 13 billion were on YouTube, making it by far the [...more]
What the hell is Google Buzz anyway? A BBS embedded in Gmail? A Twitter-killer? The death of Facebook? Well whatever it is, it’s got over 9 million posts and comments since its launch on Tuesday. That’s over 160,000 comments & posts per hour, and 200 posts per minute by mobile device. That’s incredible for a service [...more]
Netflix’s instant streaming feature is becoming an increasingly popular part of the service, to the point that actually having to open an envelope can sometimes feel like an inconvenience. Fortunately, along with an ever-expanding library, Netflix is adding a couple upgrades to the feature this year. At an unspecified time in the coming months, Netflix’s [...more]
Google is taking direct aim at Twitter and Facebook, and putting the whole mess on Google Maps and Gmail. Google has integrated Buzz into Gmail so users can keep up with their entire network of friends on Gmail without finding all their friends all over again. This could be huge for Google’s [...more]
Google’s launched the latest iteration of their “Google 4 Doodle” contest, which invites students grades K-12 to design a drawing around the Google logo. Yeah, that’s right, the contest is only open to kids. This is a national disgrace. What’s the point of even having a civil rights movement if Google can just take them away [...more]
I spend a lot of time online. An unhealthy amount, some might say. I’d like to say that I’m typically using the web in productive ways, but that would be a lie. I spend a ton of time enjoying the web’s most popular memes such as LolCats, Chad Vader, FAIL Blog, Awkward Family Photos and [...more]
Finally, there’s a service that searches all the other websites that carry video and allows you to put them all into one embeddable player. Or if such a service did exist, I wasn’t aware of it and so this feels new. Anyway, it’s called Yubby, and covers 34 different search services, from [...more]
I use a lot of Google software every single day, so when Microsoft’s Bing search engine was released I wasn’t too tempted to switch, even when the positive reviews started trickling out. But as the search engine has added new features to help separate itself from the pack, it’s steadily become a more interesting program. [...more]
It used to be that screaming “I’ve got a bomb” at the airport was the best way to get arrested. Now, thanks to the digital age, all you have to do is Twitter jokes about bombs. Everything’s so much easier now. In Northern England this week, a frustrated man – delayed at the airport [...more]
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