Have you ever thought about all the content and media out there on the Web? Information that we use daily to help make decisions, like reviews of the best restaurant for chicken parmesan or the t-shirt shop perfect for a vintage G&R t-shirt? We all know that you can find nearly anything on the web in the form of blogs, websites, user reviews, tweets, etc. But the Web is changing. In the past we have been forced to disassociate all this content from its physical context.

by Claudine Zap Roses are red, violets are blue â?" quick, we need something that rhymes with "I love you." Turns out, Valentine's Day (the day, not the movie ) brings out the Shakespeare in us. Budding romantics have taken to the Web to search for just the right way to say how we feel. What says love better than a rhyme? (Don't answer that.) With a little cyber searching, the hope is that even the most tongue-tied can come up with something sweet to say,

It doesn't really help anyone that Chrome for Mac isn't on a level with the regular version of Chrome; Mac fans must feel neglected, and Google's missing out on a lot of potential users. The gap between versions narrowed today, though, as a new Chrome for Mac beta with extensions and a few other upgrades was released. Bookmark sync is one of the fresh Chrome for Mac features - a big benefit for people who own multiple computers or sometimes work from home.

comScore has just announced its monthly qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In January 2010, Americans conducted 15.2 billion core searches. Click to read the rest of this post.

A majority of consumers react positively when companies respond to postings on social media sites, indicating the value of the channel as way to engage people in a dialogue while building a company's image, reputation and brand, according to a new study by The Center for Client Retention. The study found 55 percent of consumers felt positively when companies responded to a social media posting, with only 5 percent reacting negatively and 40 percent remaining neutral.

Google has reportedly acquired Aardvark, which operates at Vark.com , for around $50 million. Aardvark is a Q&A site. This is a space Ask.com says it is the number one brand for. Ask sees this move by Google as a direct challenge. "Bottom line, this move validates the space we have been #1 in for years," the company says. "It's Google coming after us and our mission." We spoke to Ask Networks President Scott Garrell, who says, "We welcome the challenge".

In the exciting world of today's Internet, where the world's information is literally at your fingertips, where you can endlessly communicate, shop, research, and be entertained, spam is a big downer. The unwanted email spam that fills our inboxes also consumes huge portions of the available bandwidth of our routers and trunk lines. But email is not the only spam game in town. Web spam is the bane (well, one of the banes) of the search engine and web searcher communities.

by Mike Krumboltz The blizzard on the East Coast was sort of fun at first. Now it's just getting old. Traffic is a mess, power lines are down, and flights are being cancelled by the dozen. It's the pits. Unless you're an excitable pup, like Bo Obama . For young Bo, the snow is still a doggone good time. The president's best friend made some tracks in Yahoo! Search this week, when photographers spotted him romping around in the snow on the White House lawn.

Yesterday, Iranian authorities enacted a ban on Gmail, saying they'd introduce a government-sponsored (and presumably government-monitored) email service to replace it. Now, as YouTube's seeing an influx of protest videos, Google's taken a moment to mark the Iranian government's lack of control. To be clear: these videos are not all specifically related to the Gmail development. Some Iranians are instead using today, which is the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Republic,

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In January 2010, Americans conducted 15.2 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 11.3 percent market share, up 0.6 percentage points versus December.