Muslim nations on Friday condemned a
film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting
violence, and Dutch Muslim leaders urged restraint.

IAC/InterActiveCorp chief Barry Diller
won a bitter legal dispute with Liberty Media Corp’s John
Malone on Friday, paving the way for him to proceed with
efforts to spin off four of IAC’s largest units.

Apple is expected to launch a
high-speed wireless version of iPhone in the second quarter and
produce as many as 8 million of the devices in the third
quarter, according to Bank of America.

Google has painted itself into a corner with its reliance on linking for its ranking algorithm. The lines between legitimate SEO, paid links, and Google bombs are becoming increasingly blurred.

Social networks have grown from small, local offline groups of people with common interests, to larger online groups spread across the world. Even the ease of communicating via the Internet can’t remove the limit on people’s time and attention to maintain multiple networks, though. What’s next?

Last week, comScore data showed that Google was sending more traffic to its own properties than it had been, leading some to worry if it was becoming more like a portal than a search engine. But that data appears to miss the larger picture, where Google is sending even more traffic to news sites than […]

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

For the past 10 years, most search engines have relied heavily on analyzing anchor text, links, and content to determine relevance. But recently, researchers at the top search engines have begun to look at other signals that might indicate search result relevance.

"Frankly, most SEOs are really smart and hard working; they’re just horribly misguided. They focus too much on the tricks to get people in the door and not enough on what people eat when they’re inside the restaurant."

Carr’s new book explores the future of computing and its implications for business and society. He’ll discuss some of those topics today during his opening keynote at SES New York.