We’ve extended the deadline for this competition by two weeks. You asked for more competitions, so here’s another one! We’re giving away two copies of Adobe CS3 Web Premium (kindly donated by Adobe) to the authors of the best articles about Adobe ...

After my recent post about Ask.com’s recent layoffs and change in strategic direction, I had an interesting chat to Nicholas Graham, spokesperson for Ask.com. Graham clarified a few details amid plenty of speculation that Ask.com would be retiring its search ...

SearchEngineLand’s Barry Schwartz has a good writeup on the news that Ask.com has fired 8% of its staff, and is planning on changing the strategy behind its search engine, to instead focus on its female user base. Ask.com is being refocused ...

It seems that Google has recently changed their PageRank algorithm. A number of sites have experienced a significant drop in PageRank as a result. Boing Boing: Was 9, now 7. Engadget: Was 7, now 5. Forbes.com: Was 7, now 5. New Scientist: Was ...