A decision from the Internet Global Coordinator on June 20th ruled that domain names could be sold with an open-ended top-level domain extension. Rather than just .com, .org, .gov, .info, and the dozen or so others that have already been approved, users may start seeing – or creating – sites that end with just about any phrase

In late May, Google made its way into Bangalore to continue its Street View project – taking panoramic images of the streets while blurring out the faces, license plates, and other private information of users that are accidentally captured in the pictures.

Google Translate has been a highly useful project for the development of the web, scholars, and anyone who wants to understand a page that isn’t in a language they speak. The utility has over 50 languages at its disposal, and while the translation of these different languages are in different stages of development (from alpha to ready), there’s no doubt that the options provided are impressive. Five new languages spoken in India are being added to the translate tool in “alpha” stage.

Nolo, the large legal book publisher, is planning a new marketing strategy.

Google Beta invites have been sent to users the world over and, at long last, to yours truly. This article takes a look at the fledgling service. What It Looks

A new Google search interface experiment has been discovered. While there have been a few fun design changes, one major Google element has been removed: the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. The Luckless Design The new version of the design was disc…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Posted by randfish For years, the best way to gain rankings in search results was to have: Accessible pages featuring Quality content Targeting the right keywords In a way that naturally earned external links But this changes things: The cupcake post from Everywhereist normally wouldn’t rank there.

Posted by randfish For years, the best way to gain rankings in search results was to have: Accessible pages featuring Quality content Targeting the right keywords In a way that naturally earned external links But this changes things: The cupcake post from Everywhereist normally wouldn’t rank there. In fact, unless you follow Geraldine on Twitter , chances are you won’t see much of her site in even semi-competitive results. Here’s a screenshot of a logged-out view

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Comparing Facebook Like vs