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.

Origami Portal.com (yes, there’s already an Origami news site) has an image of what a final Microsoft Origami device might look like.

Sony Ericsson and Google have made a deal that will place Google’s search and its Blogger software on upcoming mobile phone models.

Bradley Horowitz, who manages the Technology Development Group at Yahoo, has been bitten by the blogging bug.

Microsoft has said that CableCARD, which allows you to access and control digital cable with a Media Center PC, will only work on certified systems, and naturally, the certification procedure is too expensive for mom-and-pops and individual system builders.

A new search engine from Ask Jeeves lets users delve into the world of image search, via a new dedicated picture search technology from the company.