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The SOPA/PIPA blackout today by Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress.com and many other sites is (I hope) drawing attention to proposed legislation that is considered a threat to "Internet freedom." That's fine,

A spokesperson for European Commission Vice President Joaquin Almunia confirmed to ReadWriteWeb this afternoon from Brussels that the Commission has yet to come to a decision over whether to issue

Earlier this week on his personal blog, one of Google's product management directors, Hunter Walk, posted a very interesting sampling of responses from technology journalists about the broad question of

This is a message that can't possibly be repeated often enough: Good content trumps SEO. Don't believe me? Fair enough, but how about the head of Google's webspam team? In

Google has been on a killing spree the last few months, whacking projects that are non-essential to the company strategy or that haven't caught on. Even though this has angered

Crisis averted, so far. Last week's hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was stacked in favor of the Internet blacklist bill but we seem to have come out

It's no exaggeration to say that, sometimes, anonymity is a matter of life and death. Which is why it's important to know just how trivial it is to track down

After losing a tiny bit of market share earlier this year, comScore announced today that Google is gaining again in the U.S. search market. The results are slight, only

You probably recall the stories and, well, I may have even written one or two of them, including the requisite quotes from Google spokespersons. They were about the spirit of

Populism is a tool that only works in one's defense when one does not appear big or strong enough to wield it by himself. In its rise to fame, Google

An article in USA Today this week got me interested in how much the tech firms are paying to lobby Congress. There are a few places you can easily research

In one of the brilliant short stories that Isaac Asimov contributed to the science-fiction collection The Androids are Coming, the director of research for the U.S. Robot and Mechanical Men

With the announcements of Facebook's "frictionless sharing" and Amazon's Fire color Kindle, my colleagues Joe Brockmeier and Richard MacManus have both weighed in on their thoughts about where the modern

"Mr. Schmidt, industry stats show that Google runs between 65 and 70% of all Internet searches in the U.S. done on computers and about 95% on mobile devices, and has

The message from Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, appearing before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, will be familiar to anyone who's heard Schmidt speak before. But it began this time with

The worst CEOs in tech, OpenStack announcements from HP, and rumors about Google Dart are all in this ReadWriteWeb channels wrap-up. Steve Jobs may have been the best tech CEO

The news this week about firing Carol Bartz, Yahoo's CEO, made us go into the Wayback Machine to recall the many good things that Yahoo has created over its life.

Tech CEOs are getting a lot of attention lately. With the exception of exiting Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the attention is not a good thing. From Carol Bartz's abrupt firing

Last Thursday afternoon, in response to a softball question from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on the subject of the relationship of Google's proposed takeover of Motorola Mobility to the ongoing

"Our technology is used in every mobile phone," reads a leaderboard-style ad on the home page of InterDigital, a wireless technology company that holds some 8,800 critical patents. An independent

If the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) by Google announced on Monday truly is about the value of MMI's patent portfolio, then mitigating circumstances over just the past few

Tally up the total number of searches on Google, Yahoo and Bing and you have about 3.5 billion searches per day. It's estimated that Twitter has about 300 million accounts

If any company has a comprehensive view of Web browsing behavior, it's Google. Not only does the company see plenty of traffic to its own properties, but thanks to Google

According to Google, query volume has nothing to do with search rankings. But Martin MacDonald isn't buying that, and might have evidence that search volume can affect Google rankings after

Companies live and die by search engine traffic. It's little wonder that companies pull out all the stops in their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts, but you can go