In a move that will have many concerns about Internet privacy issues raised, Google has started analyzing search behavior according to aggregated consumer credit information. Some worry that this could, in the future, lead to the company targeting specific ads toward consumers with high credit ratings, with custom ads.

The advantages of having a blog are pretty well-known – they are key for giving visitors an incentive to return to a site. Not only can they increase and maintain traffic, but they are great ways to incorporate keywords, which can help for SEO. Two new services on the market allow sites to increase their web 2.0 presence and search engine ranking without much bother at all.

Get ready to get excited about something pretty geeky. It’s a whole new way of searching. And it’s just been released in beta. ISEdb.com reported in March about the soon-to-be launch of WolframAlpha. Since then, a whole lot of excitement, accompanied by concerns, has arisen.

If you’ve got nofollow links on your website, better listen up. Google’s head of Webspam, Matt Cutts, recently divulged that Google is no longer allowing PageRank sculpting.  For those of you I’ve already lost, here is a quick lesson on the history of PageRank sculpting. In the recent past, you see, Google allowed websites to determine how they would spend their own PageRank. They did this by inserting nofollows onto certain links in order to give more credit to the dofollow links.

Many of you will be familiar with the new generic top-level domain (TLD) application process being undertaken by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The corporation has decided to open up TLDs to anyone who can afford the $200,000 price tag. This would mean that the current limitations of dot-com, dot-net, dot-info, etc., will be removed.