Barry discovered that Google had dropped its in-traffic travel estimates from Google Maps on the PC. This is apparently due to some inaccuracy or dissatisfaction with the methodology Google was using to determine travel time. “We have decided that our information systems behind this feature..

User-generated article site HubPages was one of the thousands of websites hit hardest by Google’s Panda update. But now they claim to have a solution that works: dividing its website into thousands of subdomains

Many businesses, local search platforms, and social networks suffer from listings hijackers. Usually, listings hijackers are individuals that attempt to tamper with local business listings, repurposing those online identities for their own benefit…

While Bing has released many competitive features in the past, one of their more successful is Bing Maps. Microsoft is continuing its enhancements of this feature with a new interface and a new base road map style.

I am not sure exactly when this happened, but Google Maps has dropped one of the more useful features. The feature is, estimating how much time it would take to drive somewhere with traffic, either live traffic or predictive traffic based on day/time. Now..

Google and Facebook are dominant players in their respective fields, but that supremacy is more notable in specific areas. A recent Hitwise report showed Google at 92 percent of search share and Facebook at 54 percent of social share in the UK. ..

In the world of a highly visual web, data has remained largely static and visually uninteresting. Visual.ly aims to change that with extensive infographic aggregation and a set of automated graphic data representation tools.

David from YouTube announced a new feature for the YouTube video upload tool at the YouTube Help forums. David said they have implemented a new feature to let users continue their video upload even after it fails…

For the past month, I’ve been seeing sporadic reports that Google is ignoring the webmaster’s title tag and rewriting it to a Google made up title tag.

It appears that Microsoft is planning a new project called Tulalip and could be positioning it as a hybrid search/social networking service.