Rules for Wikipedia
The Akron Beacon Journal examines how to use Wikipedia, plus an overview of web equitte expected from contributors to Wikipedia.

Critics over the past year have stepped up their skepticism of the reliability of one of the web's most ambitious reference projects.

New Media: A Look Back
Steve Outing, one of the "pioneers" of the Internet and web, writes about the new world of "new media".

Google Accessible Launches
Google announced the launch of a new service that reportedly helps the visually impaired find information on the internet more easily. The new service, Google Accessible is in beta stage.

Google Updates Search Technology
Search Engine Report says that Google has modified it's search techniques to allow for better search relevant. The issue, according to Danny Wilken, is simple: most search queries are either too broad or too narrow, thereby making it difficult for search engines to decipher what results should be returned.

Google has apparently introduced new technology that aims to provide a solution to this problem. The process by which the new technique analyzes web documents is quite elaborate.

Wilken provides an indepth analysis of the purported changed.

My question is: Is Google OK with this information being published (if it is accurate)? Please jump in and say what you think.

There is increasing concern among SEO and business excecutives that they are losing their long-held keyword rankings on Google. The concern is especially important, the execs say, because in some cases their rankings are being removed altogether for inadvertently "violating" ever-changing, and at times complicated, listing policies and subsequent penalities.

See the Let's Talk About Search Engine Penalitiesforum from Search Engine Watch for a lively discussion. Also check out the SEW blog

discussion on penalization and Google.

An interview with AOL's Jonathan Miller explores the company's plans to conquer more share of demanding web consumers.

Miller talks about AOL's new technologies and takes reveals competitive advantages of Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.

An intriguing online discussion claims Google may be a security threat.

WebSense, a software filtering firm, conducted tests that found Google search results containing strings of well-known viruses that can secretly infect consumers computers without their knowledge or consent.

The issue first surfaced when bloggers began posting that Google searches were returning the always suspicous .exe files.

Read more from an E-Week article about the finding.