"...visitors from Facebook are more loyal to News and Media websites than are visitors from Google News."

"Web browser Opera says that downloads of its software have doubled since Microsoft introduced browser choice to Windows users on 1 March."

"Can a few exceptional links be enough to push a site into the top ten? WebmasterWorld members discuss their experiences."

"The problem, say experts, is that those who send spam are not those that run the botnets. As a result, if one botnet disappears then spammers and other hi-tech criminals simply shop around for another."

"I think obviously there are more fundamental ones, but within a democratic society if the democracy is going to work you have to have an informed electorate,"

"We look forward to defending YouTube, and upholding the balance that Congress struck in the DMCA to protect the rights of copyright holders, the progress of technological innovation, and the public interest in free expression."

"Microsoft is adding a star-gazing feature to its Bing Maps service."

"Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes..."

"I set myself with a the challenge of using nothing but Linux for a week to see if modern versions of the Linux operating system really are mature and stable enough for an average user."

"Even the most respected and popular online companies, the ones who claim to respect privacy, continue to launch products where the guiding privacy policy seems to be, 'Throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.'"

"The new program allows customers with a UnionPay credit or debit card to make overseas purchases."

"...all publishers will now have access to these participating ad networks."

"Coming in the new version is support for new Web standards including plug-in-free video; better performance with graphics, text, and JavaSript by taking advantage of modern computing hardware; and a new effort at gathering and responding to feedback from those using the prototype software,"

"The most popular scams involved requests for advanced fees and non-delivery of merchandise."

"Rather than implementing APIs, site owners need only drop in a few lines of javascript."

"Facebook Inc. edged past Google Inc. (GOOG) to become the most visited U.S. Web site for the week ended March 13, the first time the Internet giant has been topped since 2007, according to Hitwise."

"The antitrust authority is investigating Google Adsense policies regarding the payments made to the publishers and the lack of transparency in how they're calculated."

Matt talks about faceted navigation. pagerank, crawl budget, duplicate content, 301 vs 302 redirects, rel=canonical tag, javascript, pdfs, video, kml, navigation, and more.

"The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March - the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered."

We used to joke that PPC stood for Pills, Porn, and Casino. Those were the big 3 affiliate programs that Google loathed to run ads for. Well, Google knocked one off the list this weekend, by sending out invitations to run Pharma/Pills beta AdSense program.

"I realise that their is a lot of argument about this topic and that most directories still sort there site by pr but to google in the grand scheme of things does it really matter.

"Matt confirmed that this is in fact the case. There is some loss of PR through a 301." - from the Eric Enge interview.

In areas where censorship hinders freedom of speech, he hopes the "open exchange of information will prevail.

"...it would be nice to be able to run some backward-compatibility tests in Internet Explorer 7."

Google Inc. has drawn up detailed plans to shut its search engine in China and is "99.9 percent" certain of going ahead with the closure.