If you read the comments on a recent New York Times blog post asking who uses AOL, you would think that a big number of the company’s users simply keep their AOL.com e-mail address to hear from long-lost correspondents who haven’t heard they have moved on to Gmail.
They checked with comScore to see how they [...]

What exactly did Google do to create such a fervent enemy-combatant in the media company Viacom? Ever since we learned of the collapse of discussions over carrying Viacom cable content on YouTube, Viacom has been on an apparent crusade to bring Google to its knees.
After months of negotiations to give Google’s YouTube permission to display [...]

Beginner’s Guide to SEO
by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org
Sections in this guide:
• Prologue: Who is SEOmoz and Why is this Guide Free?
• A: What is SEO?
o Why does my company need SEO?
o Why do the search engines need SEO?
o How much of this article do I need to read?
• B: How Search Engines Operate
o Speed Bumps and Walls
o Measuring Popularity and Relevance
o Information Search Engines [...]

What is the difference between a Search Engine and a Directory?
While the average Internet user may not be aware, or care about, the differences between Search Engines (Google) and Directories (Yahoo!), the search results they provide are compiled in very different manners. Major search engines build and maintain huge databases of web pages by utilizing [...]

There is growing unease among consumer privacy advocates over Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick.
How will the search-advertising powerhouse treat the massive amounts of data it already stores on people’s search histories, once it also has at its disposal a storehouse of data on people’s surfing habits from DoubleClick, the No. 1 digital ad-serving [...]

This is the future according to EPIC 2014, a faux documentary posted to the Web in late 2004 by young journalists Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan. Thanks to their slightly tongue-in-cheek, Twilight Zone-inspired tone, the short video drew as many chuckles as gasps of dismay from the legions of mainstream media types and Web digerati [...]

Google’s YouTube has struck a deal with online distributor Digital Music Group to carry TV classics like “Gumby,” “My Favorite Martian,” and “I Spy” free of charge for viewers.
“Gumby” has some big shoes to fill following Viacom’s insistence last week that YouTube take down over 100,000 Viacom-owned videos, including any trace of Jon Stewart and [...]

Now there’s an index from Compete Inc. of the sites that yield the largest share of attention on the Web. It’s based on the amount of time U.S. Internet users spend across the top 1 million Web sites each month.
December’s top 20 and their share:
1. myspace.com 11.9%
2. yahoo.com 8.5%
3. msn.com 3.7%
4. ebay.com 3.7%
5. google.com 2.1%
6. [...]

Kudos to AOL for the free TV site, chock full of classic TV episodes that can be streamed (no commercials) or downloaded for a limited time, free. This is one of the real fun sites to visit and a very pleasant diversion. A must to bookmark.
 http://geoff-caplan.com, email geoff@mail.org

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