The study involved more than 7,500 websites, said C. Lee Giles, the David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, whose team developed a new search engine called BotSeer for the study. Full Article at New Kerala

Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study of more than 7,500 Web sites... Full Article at ResourceShelf

So, the technique you've laid out here is neither good nor evil. ... Full Article at Search Engine Roundtable

There is no one working in television today who has so effectively monopolized a genre as the team of Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. They have owned the world of ruminative soap opera, the way Ford once owned Detroit. Full Article at The New York Times

The agreement will see Nokia's mobile Internet services platform, Ovi, appearing on Vodafone handsets. Full Article at CNET

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Full Article at Boston Globe

Online media conglomerate InterActiveCorp—owners of Ask.com, Evite and other popular web sites—on Monday announced a $3.5 billion advertising agreement with Google, in what analysts say is the search engine king’s second largest ad space deal yet. Full Article at Red Herring

Google likes software, particularly the kind that puts ads on Web pages, making Google rich. Full Article at Forbes

The United Nations teamed with technology giants Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. to launch a new Web site Thursday that will provide data and a bird's eye view of global efforts to fight poverty and meet U.N. development goals by 2015. Michael T. Full Article at Miami.com