Given that Google's life blood is the hyperlink you might find it strange that it has just declared war on said link. Not only that, but in its attempts to make search better it has placed a weapon in your opponent's hands that you are powerless to defend yourself against.

Reddit has caused some surprise by announcing bans on Business Week, Phys.org, The Atlantic and more. Some Redditors are happy that evildoers are punished, some are not so sure, but this news shouldn't come as a surprise. Reddit has been banning sites and users for a very long time - just not admitting it.

Google Search is important for every web publisher. It drives traffic to a site like no other entity on the web. It may have been reduced in importance by social media, but it is still the only (mostly) no-effort way of getting browsers to view your pages. You simply post the page, wait for it to be crawled by Google, and sit back and expect visitors. 

Now that Google has stopped ranking websites - yes page rank is long dead - there is a real need for some public auditing and ranking.

If this article isn't being brought to you by sponsors, who is it that is picking up the tab?  Why turning off adverts is aggressive action.

The Daily, Murdoch's newspaper created specifically for the iPad. was finally launched this week. Is it going to have an impact - or is it the wrong model anyway? 

Stone Tapes continues to challenge some of our naive assumptions about the way the Web works.

Flattr is a new attempt to encourage end users to pay a minimum amount for the web content that they take for granted. Can it possibly work?