Google has expanded Search History to include Google News. Now, all of your searches and the pages you click through to will be saved in your search history, and you can save pages and tag them in the history.

What happened? Webmaster’s, site owners, online businesses and SEO companies everywhere have been desperately trying to decipher the fallout from the longest and most grueling algorithm update in the history of the Internet.

It hasn’t been confirmed which Chicago newspaper will be the one displaying Google print ads, but the company did confirm a test is being evaluated.

The pilot phase of Google’s Publication Ads component of AdWords has debuted online and is available currently by invitation only.

Have you ever wondered why we call software or hardware errors “bugs”? What a strange word to describe a mistake.

How often can you be up at 4:30 in the morning to converse with an old man who counts every day, noting the change in the leaves, and reminding you constantly how much he loves you? Probably not so often bordering on never-it’s a benefit that comes with age. We have things to do-lots of them, and as one old blogger has noted, mostly on the weekends.

Rapid growth has led Ask Jeeves (isn’t it Ask.com officially yet?) to add more staff to it offices in Oakland and open a new branch in Campbell, CA.

The portal company decided in September to do away with traditional focus groups for research, and switched to the use of “immersion groups” instead.

The high-stakes match for a stake in Time Warner’s AOL has now seen Yahoo fold its hand and walk away from the table, leaving Microsoft and Google to battle over AOL.

So you’ve got a great creative product and everyone says, “you’ve got to get your creative, artistic butt online!” Problem is, you don’t really know much about getting it there. You’re not a techie, and like laws and sausages, you’d rather not learn about the process-web marketing isn’t you’re business anyway. This is why many online aspirants and creative types are turning to outsourcing to move their wares to Web.

Google has applied for a patent that, at face value, looks as if they are thinking of radically altering the way they rank websites in the general organic search results.

Alan Meckler disclosed on his blog today that JupiterMedia has picked up PR Direct, a French-based royalty-free photo distributor.

A memo that reportedly leaked from Microsoft has been making the rounds of the tech media.

The biggest test for Microsoft’s AdCenter will come early next year, when the company launches an advertiser-supported video network featuring content from the Associated Press.

People often think of a brand as the symbol, name or logo associated with a product. In reality, branding involves far more.

The bright new Internet world of web-based services and open APIs delivered by Google and others just had a big shadow cast across it by Microsoft. Several news outlets like the Wall Street Journal got a leaked copy of a Microsoft internal email from Bill Gates…

Skype poses five issues for enterprises, the study claims, and should be kept out of the business on security and privacy grounds.

Licensing is a method of leveraging an organization’s process, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property for a fee or royalty.

The latest controversy surrounding Google’s ambitious Print for Libraries project, where the aim is digitize and make available online all works of literature, comes after a heart-string tugging plea from a British hospital for terminally-ill children that receives much of its revenue from its copyright of Peter Pan.

Google has added a feature to its advanced search function allowing the searcher to filter by copyright provisions that allow reuse, sharing, or modifying, and whether the source can be used commercially.

For many companies, the decision to outsource sales is based on the well-established idea that it is better to contract for services that are not within the scope of a company’s true set of competencies.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy tried an interesting tactic to steer bloggers toward his site on the Internet regarding the two-week old riots in and around Paris. He bought adwords for suburbs and riots (banlieue, emeute) and tried to swing traffic his way.