It might well be that once these domains are obtained in the future that Google and other search engines will find a .City domain address is a more accurate way to find results that are relevant to queries with a specific City name in it.

It’s comparatively rare that social signals and content provide ‘answers’ to the questions which are represented by people’s keyphrase searches beyond simply validating or reinforcing editorial content; social content is very different to editorial content.

There are various directories of hashtags like TagDef, or Hashtags.org and you can also claim a hashtag (and add video and other media) at Twubs. Hashtags in combination with published times create twitterchats, or twitter parties.

So far there has been good news; in that it’s now up to the browsers to ensure users have the option to opt out of cookie tracking.

But for once I do applaud Microsoft. As someone who is just so excited by where the internet, our browsing experience, and technology will go in the immediate years I want people to upgrade their browsers! I want people to be able to experience the web as we envision it.