According to a recent study co-written by Ask Jeeves Director of Advanced Products Antonio Gulli and University of Iowa’s Alessio Signorini, the major search engines have managed to index nearly 85% of the estimated 11.5 billion documents that make up the “visible web”.

A study has found that a colon cancer screening tool called sigmoidoscopy has been discovered to miss precancerous tumors in about two-thirds of women patients.

For every two dollars’ worth of software purchased legitimately, one dollar’s worth was obtained illegally, says a new study from Business Software Alliance.

As we go through existence, we find there are great questions in life: What is life’s meaning? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? And finally, just how big is the Internet? A recent study attempted to put some of the Internet question into perspective and they discuss how much is covered by the big search engines.

ImClone Systems and Bristol-Myers Squibb announced the results of several clinical studies of ERBITUX, an IgG1 monoclonal antibody, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 41st Annual Meeting.

A Phase III study of Genentech and Roche’s drug Avastin with paclitaxel chemotherapy in first- line metastatic breast cancer proved to be more effective than chemotherapy alone.

So you’ve built your website, you know what keywords you want to target (i.e. what words your customers are searching for), and you’re ready to write your copy. You’ve been told that you should use your keywords frequently so that you appear in search results for those words. But what does “frequently” mean?

Does Microsoft consider the server environment a site is hosted on when applying relevancy rankings for their search results? If this were indeed true, wouldn’t manipulation of this sort render their SERPs as biased and non-relevant?

In a turnaround from its recent stories on public relations, the New York Times takes a look at how Wendy’s has been handling its crisis.

Techdirt has published a case study on how they have worked with the Electronic Research Lab …

Editor’s Note: Today, Jeremy Pepper takes a look at the value of content. From many perspectives, content is still considered king. And why not? If you don’t have good content, chances are you won’t be able to secure advertising for your site, Google or otherwise.

When it comes to filtering content originating from the Internet, no one appears to do it as well as the Chinese government.

CNET is reporting that Hostway polled 2,500 Americans on blogging. The headlines tonight and tomorrow …

Burson Marsteller, the PR agency that initially identified “e-fluentials,” has release a study focusing on a new e-fluential subcategory, tech-fluentials.

Genentech and Roche announced that an interim analysis of a Phase III study of Avastin plus paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapies in first-line non-squamous, non-small cell lung cancer…

According to the second annual State of the News Media report, blogs and other alternative sources are increasingly caputring eyeballs …

Bones were uncovered in February in the northeastern Afar region of Ethiopia at a site called Mille.

InternetWeek: PDAs are moving toward irrelevance, a new study by In-Stat released this week says. [...] The devices are entering a stage of serious decline.

What is it that makes the Search industry press go all gooey eyed and giggly over a study that only points out what has been both patently obvious …

Encysive Pharmaceuticals today announced topline results from the Company’s multi- center, pivotal Phase III STRIDE-2 (Sitaxsentan To Relieve ImpaireD Exercise) trial.

WebTrends, the web analytics market share leader and a business unit of NetIQ Corporation, today unveiled results from its WebPosition Search Ranking…