Chinese bloggers run the gauntlet of forced registration, censorship
Good news and bad news come intertwined in China especially in its online world protected by the Great Firewall and the Golden Shield technological attempts to control whats said and viewed on the Internet
The recent bad news that the Chinese government is requiring all bloggers to register with the government by June 30 or face shutdown was tempered by the fact that theres always another free blog host somewhere in the world thats less controlled...
The Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch
To find out I staged a very unscientific test consisting of questions culled from a recent edition of Trivial Pursuit
My mock game pitted the avowed prowess of Answerscom and Askcom against the Internets most widely used search engines Google Yahoo and Microsoft Corps
The findings Answerscom and Askcom appear to be a small step ahead of Google and noticeably smarter than Yahoo and when dealing with such esoteric questions as What glass beads are created when a meteorite strikes the Earths surface
Both Answerscom and Ask...
Is Pay-Per-View Next for the Search Heavyweights?
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Google is reportedly coming out with an online payment system Eric Schmidt acknowledges some kind of electronic payment system is in the works but told the Associated Press We do not intend to offer a persontoperson storedvalue payments system
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The payment services we are working on are a natural evolution of Googles existing online products and advertising programs which today connect millions of consumers and advertisers Schmidt continued...
US web users fail to spot ads in search
More than half of Internet users in the do not know the difference between natural and paidfor search results according to a new poll
The survey from Harris Interactive revealed that 56 of Internet users said they did not know the difference between sponsored and natural search engine result listings
The study found that younger Web users were more likely to distinguish between the two with 47 of 18 to 34 year olds saying they knew the difference
Meanwhile just over a third 38 of those aged over 55 could tell the difference...
Netimperative - AOL opens up portal to non-subscribers
has begun testing its new free Web portal as the firm looks to rival advertiserfunded destination sites such as Yahoo and in a bid to stem falling subscriber numbers
Available as a beta test in the the new look portal represents a radical departure from s traditional subscriberbased model
As well as offering features that were previously only available to subscribers the new portal will offer several new features including 200 channels of Radio on demand with and 20 Radio channels
The portal will push the full range of services such as its Instant Messenger blogging and photo services...