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One of the joys of running a site that is driven by a database is expanding a site to the point where it is causing the database server to crash on a regular basis due to the traffic you receive. This is exactly what happened with our article directory.
The first thing we did was [...]

Ask.com will take its research with privacy advocates at the Center for Democracy & Technology into a new product for their search engine.The AskEraser product offers a straightforward way of keeping one’s search history from being retained by Ask. AskEraser will arrive in the wake of a number of privacy-related events related to search, such [...]

AdWords clients may see an invitation to join the beta test of Google’s pay per action (PPA) advertising appear in their accounts.Pay per action advertising allows the advertiser to define a conversion for which it will pay Google. The company just began rolling this beta test of PPA out to customers beyond the United States. [...]

Yahoo and eBay announced the Yahoo PayPal Checkout Program, which users of Yahoo Search will encounter as little blue shopping cart icons in the search results.Merchants who participate in the Program will be able to offer PayPal’s Express Checkout as a payment process. PayPal touts this as their fastest checkout solution; its presence in Yahoo [...]