Hot on the heels of Google’s Chrome’s “incognito” feature, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8’s “InPrivateBrowsing” and Apple’s Safari’s “private browsing” mode, Mozilla has announced that the new beta of FireFox 3.1 will also feature a similar technology. Since none of these new privacy features hide your browsing history from your ISP or the websites you visit, the only thing that is really erased is your online web-surfing habits on your own PC. … read on »

Terri Wells at SEOChat goes quite indepth into Google's announcement that it will be able to index Flash files a lot more: Late in June Google and Adobe announced an arrangement whereby the search engine could now read and index Shockwave Flash files. The move has been hailed as a huge step forward, since Flash has up until now been invisible to the search engines – and therefore invisible to searchers. But this isn't quite the … read on »

And the online acquisitions just keep happening. Obviously not content with their online market reach after the failed buyout of Yahoo!, Microsoft has announced they are buying Ciao, which is basically a price comparison website for consumers. Microsoft has agreed to acquire a Connecticut-based research company called Greenfield Online, which runs both a website called Ciao for European comparison shoppers and an online survey system that helps businesses conduct market research. More at TechCrunch The reported … read on »