Media - Internet

Internet users share many common interests, but men are heavier consumers of news, stocks, sports and pornography while more women look for health and religious guidance, a broad survey of US Web usage has found. Trends are marked now: young women are more likely to be online than young men. And black women have surged online in the last three years. Pew Internet Project surveys between January...

Bill Gates made news this month when he said Microsoft's MSN search engine might give away cash or software to get people to use the site. Actually, Yahoo and Google are already exploring that ground, although they are relying on other companies to do it for them. Like many other Web sites, a pair of online newcomers, Blingo and GoodSearch, license search technology from Google and Yahoo and earn...

A 2005 year-end review of blogging has found that politics took a back seat to discussions about entertainment, technology, natural disasters and the evolution of blogs as legitimate media channels, according to Intelliseek's BlogPulse.com. Michael Jackson and Britney Spears generated more celebrity buzz than other entertainers, Boing Boing and Engadget were the two most popular blogs, "Sin City"...

The stratospheric increase in the use of online classified advertising – up 80 percent year over year according to a just-released study in the United States (US) – represents a coming of age for the Web, a milestone that will continue to eclipse itself for the foreseeable future, says one of the Internet's most popular classified ad companies. "This kind of precipitous growth within a 12-month...

NEW YORK -- World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog just in time for the 15th anniversary of his invention. In his first entry, Berners-Lee remarked on how the Web took off as a publishing medium rather than one in which visitors not only read but also contributed information. "WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource...

When Google introduced Google Earth, free software that marries satellite and aerial images with mapping capabilities, the company emphasized its usefulness as a teaching and navigation tool, while advertising the pure entertainment value of high-resolution flyover images of the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the pyramids. But since its debut last summer, Google Earth has received attention of an...

The battle for the hearts and minds of email users is underway with the world's largest internet companies racing to be the first to deliver improved access, navigation and web feeds into new products. Both Microsoft and Yahoo! have architected entirely new web-based email offerings while Google continues to stuff ever more features into Gmail to fend off the looming competition. The latest...

Yahoo is changing the way it displays its Sponsored Search listings, bringing them more in line with Google’s sponsored search results. On Jan. 18, Yahoo debuts a "streamlined design that will make the search results displayed on Yahoo even easier for consumers to read," according to an e-mail sent to Yahoo Search Marketing clients. The main change is that descriptions will be shortened to 70...

SIXTEEN PERCENT OF ADULTS IN Canada read an online newspaper each week last year--up from 10 percent in 2001, according to a new report by the Newspaper Audience Databank, Inc., the research arm of the Canadian Daily Newspaper industry. Last year alone, readership of online newspapers grew by 12 percent, according to the report, with the national newspapers drawing the largest traffic. But that...

NEW YORK - Popular subscription-based blogging service TypePad went offline on Friday, delaying updates to thousands of sites. Users of the system were unable to post new stories, and posts written in the last week disappeared entirely. The shutdown occurred late Thursday night as Six Apart was increasing redundancy on its disk storage. "It's kind of like lightning striking. At the point where we...