Internet Articles

The old mantra "If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it" is an aphorism the folks at Google would do well to remember. Like any good business Google is always looking to improve its offering to its customers, but has Google gone too far? In 1997, Google set out two goals for their search engine:... read more

Tim Westwood is one of my favourite twitters. Most of the time I have no idea what he's talking about. He gets excited about waffles, rants about trainers and overfaces himself at Nandos. However today he's excelled himself. In what appears to be a bizarre tribute to Boing Boing's... read more

In honour of the UK Government rushing through the Digital Economy Bill despite mass online protest about the provisions regarding copyright infringement online, we're republishing a selection of responses. Naturally, as our own ISP we are now legally required to monitor ourselves and report... read more

The saying goes that today’s news (in printed newspaper form) is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper. But in today’s world where people are obtaining news from a vast range of sources – from radio to RSS, blogs to online news sites, social media to email – the question is - is today’s printed news... read more

Last night's talk at MMU by James Hanson of MediaVest raised a number of interesting questions. Using IBM and Yahoo as examples of once all-powerful corporations who now have a vastly reduced market share, he presented a list of possible scenarios that might bring about the demise of the... read more

For many years and for many users the browser of choice has been Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE), as evidenced by the fact that it currently has 62.1% share of the browser market. Its popularity can be partly attributed to the fact that IE is packaged with Microsoft’s Windows operating... read more

Before the dust had even settled on the disaster-stricken Caribbean country of Haiti there was already a flow of posts, blogs and websites starting to discuss and share moments of the disaster. But for this event the internet and social media hasn't just been used to gossip or simply pass... read more

Google could be preparing to exit China following attacks on the Gmail accounts of several human-rights activists. When Google.cn launched in January 2006, they bowed to Chinese law and allowed their index to be censored. China has been blocking sites and monitoring internet use since... read more

We have all typed our name into Google once or twice to confirm our ‘internet fame’, obliterate our name exclusivity and see how much information about us is really out there . But have you ever considered paying to have results removed or promoted in light of other people searching for you?... read more

Whilst the internet is an ever-expanding and eclectic resource, it would seem that one particular area is shrinking day by day – the world of free, good quality online content. This is an issue rarely out of the papers (on and off line) at the moment, thanks to big names like Rupert Murdoch... read more