In 1993, Matthew Gray created the world’s first search engine.  Now, while working for Google, he’s created a map of the world "based on the frequency of its locations mentioned in books."

An Ohio woman is suing Yahoo for $20 million claiming the company used a photograph of her to promote their email services without her permission.

As news of Saddam Hussein’s execution made its way around the web (rather quickly), people flocked to the search engines looking for video, images, and any other pertinent information about the hanging.

Not too long ago, Amazon released their Simple Storage Service (or “S3″ for short). It provides a hosted storage platform which developers can build all sorts of applications on top of. Smugmug, a popular photo sharing web site, is using it to store and host pictures.

Founder David Sifry moved from helping a user with using Technorati to making an announcement at the Syndicate Conference.

Sony Pictures enjoyed serious link love when Google UK dropped a link to them at the bottom of its search result pages.