Close to four percent of all search queries last week contained the word "free." Is this an indicator of a plummeting economy? Hitwise’s Bill Tancer says it’s just how people work.

Around 86 million U.S. households will have broadband Internet access by 2012 according to a new report from JupiterResearch.

Much has been said about Google algorithmic favoritism for Wikipedia. I was working on a project this weekend about celebrities, and wikipedia’s dominance in the SERP’s was nothing less than astounding.

The phrase "only in America" has never been more apropos. And the phrase "Britney shaved" has never had such an ironic connotation. And eBay has never been quicker to remove a listing (can’t really back up that last part).

The practice of people creating a multitude of links to President George Bush’s WhiteHouse.gov profile with the words ‘miserable failure’ as anchor text has been known as Google bombing. Now Google has made a change rendering that Google Bomb a dud.

According to Wizbang President Bush during an audience Q&A encouraged supporters of the war to use blogs and word of mouth to spread good news about Iraq…

Dropping in on Wheeling, West Virginia yesterday to rally support for the Iraqi War, President Bush also dropped a word that maybe even surprised himself: blogs. The armchair warriors at home whispered among themselves, “did he just say blogs?’”

The various blogs, websites, and radio shows supportive of the President and his Administration’s agenda have given George W. Bush an edge against a frequently hostile mainstream media.

The story about Department of Justice attorneys filing suit in federal court for access to Google’s databases exploded across the Internet, and it appears they out of the big four search engines resisted prior requests for that information.

Amazon’s A9.com search engine now lets you be a giant gossipy snoop. Zoom Information Inc., a search engine engineered to collect information on people and offer automatic summaries about them is now the default source of people information on A9.com.

WCBSTV.com reports that President Bush has again been Google Bombed. A simple trick that takes advantage of the way Google ranks web pages …

Podcasts have went from grass roots to mainstream to Pennsylvania Avenue, as government podcasts become available.

A lawyer who worked on Microsoft’s behalf during the US v. Microsoft antitrust trial will now be the American representative to the European Union.

The White House changed what many thought was a solid position on India using nuclear power. President Bush said yesterday that he would ask Congress to end long-term sanctions against India.

By now many of you have heard of the President Bush Google/link bombs that have gone off since our world changed in 2001.

Presidents who get a second term are few generally. In recent decades though, Second term presidents usually end up with more than standard political conflicts and lame duck behavior. The second term usually provides a full-blown, nation-threatening scandal of epic proportions. Now Bush might just have his in the form of Karl Rove.

Some call it “resolve.” British Prime Minister Tony Blair came just short of calling it “stubborn.” Speaking to reporters about the possibility of holding any influence whatsoever on President George W. Bush regarding the Kyoto Protocol, Blair said it was “not achievable.”

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency imagines a future where humanoid robots populate a lunar base in 2025.