Advertising Partnership between Google and Yahoo

By Hannah Ringheim
There’s an investigation currently going on in the Justice Department of the new advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo. This partnership has a consistent growing resentment due to the frighteningly increasing power of Google, and by having these two powerful players establish a partnership, the business will continue to expand. One [...]

Slaying of family in California

By Bianca Caillouet
I was just looking on cnn.com and saw this shocking and depressing story, a man killed his wife, mother-in-law, three sons and himself because he has been out of work for some months now. This man wasn’t an uneducated person. He had an MBA in finance. http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/06/california.murder.suicide/index.html
This may just seem like [...]

The SNL Election

By Melanie Hoffman
Today there was a story on the Yahoo! homepage about the rise in popularity of SNL. The article (found at http://tv.yahoo.com/show/194/news/urn:newsml:tv.reuters.com:20081006:us_snl__ER:48828) said that with Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin, that SNL was becoming more popular as it once was when it first aired.
The only discrepency is that the article attributed the number [...]

The New Ask.com

By Zaid Shuhaibar
While searching current events I came across an interesting article entitled What’s Up at Ask.com? A New Revamp on The Wall Street Journal website. According to the article the Internet search engine, Ask.com, plans to launch a redesign of their website in hopes of becoming more competitive against other Internet search engines such [...]

The New York Times: Google in Shift on “Abortion” as keyword

By Ben Hertz
This is an interesting article considering it has to do with google searches and given that we just had those meetings with the librarian, I think its relevant.
After a lawsuit from a Christian anti-abortion group, Google is allowing religious organizations to take out ads using the keyword “abortion,” a rare case of the [...]