Google announces Joga.com on their blog. We previously covered Joga first here, and then here. Well, I’ve actually tried the service now, and it feels very much like their other social networking site: orkut. In fact, the two are virtually the same. If you have an orkut account, it automatically fills in your orkut profile […]

Large, popular websites are starting to engage in search engine spam. This has been a problem since pay-per-click advertising became popular, and has been especially driven by the PageRank algorithm, which has increased dramatically the value of a link. Sites like Forbes.com and UCSD Guardian have spammy pages set up on their domains, usually with […]