An average of 122 million Europeans age 15 or older were online in April compared to 114 million in the U.S. according to comScore World Metrix study.

“Europeans Go Online 24 Hours Per Month”

If you ride some form of public transportation – be it subways, trains, or buses – you may know about Google Transit, which helps users “[c]reate your own transit trip, complete with itineraries and maps.”  That service worked just fine (within a few areas), but the search engine company now plans to incorporate much more information into Google Maps and Google Earth.

Yahoo has just rolled out quality-based pricing for Yahoo Search Marketing, effectively discounting certain CPCs on the Yahoo Publisher Network (similar to Google’s smart pricing).

Yahoo Search Marketing has a new feature available that changes the pricing model for its advertisers.

If anyone was wondering why IAC put up a $100 million marketing budget behind Ask.com, the relaunch of the search engine as Ask3D should answer that question.

People want better search results, but the personalization technology that can enable it may be a little scary to the privacy-conscious.

In the United States and the United Kingdom, a couple of librarian-driven resources show just how potent informational sites with vetted content can be for Internet users. Resource Shelf’s Gary Price tells us more.

Social media marketing can turn the mild-mannered site marketer into an energy-wielding superhero, infused with the pure power of link love and heavy traffic.

Let’s see . . .  Google Maps tells me to take a left, and then hang a right at an ad reading, “Click Here Now to Save $$$.”  Wait, that can’t be right . . .   And it won’t be, but Google has revealed that it will incorporate AdSense into its mapping services.

Rocky-historied video blog Rocketboom has a new sponsorship model and a major new sponsor. The first sponsor paying out to associate its name with Ms. Joanne Colan is online video phenom YouTube.

Joost has partnered with Next New Networks who will offer three channels on the Internet television service.

“Joost Adds New Content Partner”

One of the great things about the internet generally and some of the cool tools you have at your disposal is that everything is instant and very transparent.

The inter-connected world can know the minutest detail about your life, sometimes whether you want it to or not.

And sometimes the instant-ness of it all can result in huge and very public embarrassment.

Take this scenario:

The Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) was bombarded today pleas to keep a tight reign on the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction to prevent phone and cable companies from expanding their grip on Internet access in the wireless realm.

Microsoft’s Soapbox video-sharing service got pulled out of the public’s view back in March; this past Friday, it finally floated back into sight.  The site has gained a new color scheme, and (probably more importantly), it’s “conducting proactive filtering of all uploaded content.”