Yandex, the top search engine in Russia, has reportedly announced that it no longer counts links as a ranking factor when delivering search results for commercial queries.
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PayPal announced that it now supports prepaid gift cards in that consumers can use them anywhere that accepts PayPal.
This is just in time for the holidays, when many people wi...
Demand Media just announced its results for the third quarter. Revenue was down 2% year over year. Content and media revenue specifically was down 7%. Registrar revenue was up 11%,...
McDonald's loves to see you smile--just not their employees. When full-time employee Nancy Salgado called McResources, McDonald's employee help line, and said she need a raise to...
Sue Gardner, the outgoing executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced today that over 250 Wikipedia accounts have been blocked or banned as editors investigate accusa...
Earlier this week, Yahoo was making some headlines for giving security researchers credit for its online corporate store as reward for finding security vulnerabilities in Yahoo pro...
Online advertising has changed. It used to be that Web sites would have a few banner ads or side bar ads to bring in revenue. Then consumers started to use adblockers and other met...
Elizabeth O'Bagy, the U.S. researcher whose writings about the upside of moderate opposition forces in Syria were cited by Secretary of State John Kerry has been fired from a non-p...
According to a new report out from George Washington University, 45% of births in the U.S. in 2010 were paid for by Medicaid, up slightly from 43% in 2008. That amounts to 1.8 mil...
As you've probably found out, getting your content seen in Google's organic listings is not as easy as it used to be. It's no wonder that businesses are getting more out of paid li...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has updated is guidance to the search engine industry regarding the need to distinguish between advertisements and search results.
Search indu...
Legend has it that there's a massive grave of Atari games, most notably millions of copies of the epic commercial failure E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, buried in a New Mexic...
Google has been enforcing its policies on paid links for years, but the search engine is really cracking down on advertorials and native advertising these days. Google's Matt Cutts...