February 2011

Goo.gl url shortener is free and open to the public.

Over on the Google Social Web blog, there is a post about the Goo.gl URL shortner now being open to the public and available for use to every one. There are many other types of URL shortners out there, used primarily for shortening long URL so that they take up less characters in the 140 Character world of twitter.

Google and Bing - The search wars continue

Web Pro News has a timely article posted on their website about the recent happenings between Google and Bing. While the title of the post may be a little misleading (and created for shock factor) "Bing Accuses Google of Click Fraud" is still a good post and helps to shed some light on the issues that the two mega-million dollar search monsters are bickering over.