Microsoft’s CTO Ray Ozzie thinks the challenge from Google, particularly its “cloud-based services,” i.e., services that are hosted and delivered over the public Internet, has been a wake-up call for the giant software firm. Quoted in Dan Farber’s blog entry, Ozzie: Google a rallying point for Microsoft, Ozzie differentiates ...

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Web 2.0 has been hovering on the Technorati top search list for many days now. In case you need an antidote to the hyperactive bloviating of most web pundits, check out Web 2.0 to you too, buddy. It’s a brief but pithy critique of the Web 2.0 hype. ...

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If you search any commercial phrase in blog search leader Technorati.com, you’ll likely find that many, if not most, of the search results take you to spam blogs, or “splogs” as some call them. These sites look like a regular blog at first glance, but are easily identified by ...

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Yahoo Search Marketing advertisers in the U.S. recently received an e-mail notifying them that the old $20 monthly minimum advertising spend has been eliminated. This move was publicly confirmed in the official Yahoo Search blog. (more…)

In Day 3 of the Westhost outage, WebmasterWorld is still running at SearchEngineWorld.com - the huge archive of posts aren’t there, but there’s discussion of the Google Jagger update and many other topics. Rumor has it that the servers in Westhost’s downed datacenter are being moved to a new ...

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More than 24 hours after the outage (apparently caused by multiple router failures at web hosting firm Westhost), WebmasterWorld.com remains off the Web. Temporary camp has been set up at SearchEngineWorld, so drop by and say hi.

Wednesday morning, the outage at WebmasterWorld continues - it looks like all of Westhost, the datacenter that hosts the site, is down. No explanation from Westhost yet, but in the past brief but total outages have been caused by major router failure or a problem with the main connectivity ...

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In Firefox Hits Wall, InternetWeek reported that growth of the alterative browser has slowed, and even dropped in September. The latest measurement was 7.55 percent, down from 8.27 percent in August. (more…)

The Spyware Confidential blog reports in Adware company gets the boot from affiliate network that Commission Junction is finally cracking down on commission-rerouting affiliates. (more…)

A few days ago, the Jensense blog reported that ads for Google Adsense are running on the Yahoo Publishers Network, urging viewers to “Make Money on the Web with Google”. (more…)