The ability to annotate pictures, songs, video, and web pages is growing as site owners attempt to find new ways to build communities and attract visitors to their sites. Enabling people to add their thoughts and opinions, their words to a page means that a site can grow and evolve with the community [...]

One of the challenges that a search engine like Google faces is that in order for it to be useful globally, it needs to provide search for an audience that speaks many different languages. It’s not surprising then, that the search engine has delved into learning as much as it can about many languages, and even [...]

When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search? For example, let’s say that you are looking for a new pair of sneakers to go jogging in, and you want to find the right combination of comfort and [...]

When someone searches at one of the major search engines, they often type in keyword phrases, composed as if they were written for human readers. Those phrases may contain words or phrases that show up very frequently in pages on the web, and have little to do with the information being sought by the [...]

Does it matter that Google knows about a trillion Web Addresses? Is it important that new search engine Cuil has 120 Billion pages indexed, according to them, “three times more than any other search engine”? The more pages that are known about by a search engine, the more difficult it might be to provide the [...]

You search for “Foo Fighters,” and the search engine takes your query and starts searching its databases to identify results. It might look through a video database, to see if there are any good videos to show you. It may dig through a News database to see if there was any recent news [...]

There are many web sites for nonprofit organization online that could use a little direction, a little help from people in the web design and internet marketing communities. I came across a site this weekend that works to connect professionals interested in helping non profits with organizations that need their help. The Taproot Foundation is [...]

How much of a responsibility do search engines have to police the internet, and protect their users from email and instant message and web spam, phishing fraud, and misuse of chat rooms? How can search engines be socially responsible and work towards keeping consumers from harm? How effective can they be in pro-actively [...]