http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/03/08/wikipedia.credentials.ap/index.html
            We all know that the internet is a large network that allows for easy dissemination of large amounts of information.  This is what has made Wikipedia such a powerful tool, as user submissions have resulted in 1.7 million articles in English alone.  What makes Wikipedia particularly useful is the anonymity of article submissions.  As […]

Every holiday season, I resort to doing the bulk of my shopping online because of the convenience and ease. And like any shopper, I always want to find the best price. I always find that I spend most of my time cross-referencing many online stores and checking the current auction prices on eBay. […]

www.foreignaffairs.org/2003110faessay82611/ethan-b-kapstein/the-baby-trade.html
Well, I’m writing this blog entry about a slightly different topic than many may imagine; a more concerning one, I should think. The link above goes to a report on baby trafficking - a trade, as it were, that has been increasing in size in the last few years, as more Western people choose […]

Google currently uses the Cost-Per-Click pricing model, where advertisers pay based on the number of clicks to their advertisements. The value that a business gets from such an advertising model ultimately has to do with the number of ‘actions’ that the advertising triggers in a consumer. In some cases, this is easy to […]

In an absolute sense, it is wise to say that survival is the most important thing to a human being. When it comes down to it, even wealth is second to health- realistically money is of no use when one can’t use it. As such it is not surprising that research has been done in […]

Cracking Google’s Page Ranking
Lately it seems that anytime anyone talks about technology, all you ever hear about is “Google”. Google this, and Google that. Not only has Google weeded its way into daily conversations, but, ultimately, Google dominates, and is king of the Internet. A recent article discussed how, websites continuously vie to rank high […]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14325063/site/newsweek/
Picture this situation: You’ve just gone to an awesome dorm party and to celebrate, you decide to take pictures of the event and post them on Facebook to save the memories and share it with your friends. A few days later, you learn that these pictures were viewed by administrators and that you were getting […]

An article over at O’Reilly Radar previews Metaweb’s Freebase, an upcoming product that aims to collect and organize the vast amounts of knowledge available on the web. Like Wikipedia, Freebase empowers users to view and edit its information archive directly. (In fact, Freebase has absorbed much of the content provided in openly available databases such […]

http://www.game-advertising-online.com/index.php
Advertising helped Google to stay up and running and now it’s helping other websites bring entertainment to the masses. game-advertising-online.com (GAO from here on) is helping internet games make more money by giving them exposure or an extra bit of income. The whole operation rests heavily on two principles that we have discussed […]

http://www.tech-recipes.com/google_tips481.html
The author of the above article discusses the method and success of the marketing scheme Google used for its beta version of GMail, its new email service. Even before the beta version was released in April 2004, news and rumors about a 1-gigabyte mailbox, Google searching emails, and other features were being discussed in […]