Some readers howled after Bill Gates launched a blog last week without a RSS feed, something that has since been added. Now, Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan offers some fascinating advice to the tech billionaire about how to have the new blog picked up by Google, Bing and other search engines. "At this point, I hope you’re feeling kind of angry that you’ve got this spanking new site that the search engines haven’t fully indexed," writes Sullivan. "Welcome to the wonderful world of being a content owner having no power in the search ecosystem."

The New York Times has created a cool chart comparing the technology offerings of Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.

AllRecipes.com has unveiled a new nutrition search feature, a move that comes a few days after Microsoft's Bing rolled out a similar offering in its recipe search results. The Seattle company said the new online nutrition tool is available to AllRecipes' users who have an annual membership.

Location-based service Foursquare is partnering with Canada's largest free daily newspaper, the first for the newspaper industry, reports Mark Briggs of Lost Remote.

Fresh off its $15 million venture round, Widevine today announced that it has received its 60th patent. The patent -- titled "System, Method, and Apparatus for Securely Providing Content Viewable on a Secure Device" -- covers technologies that allow consumers to watch high definition entertainment securely over the Internet. Seattle-based Widevine helps firms securely deliver online video to televisions, Blu-ray players, mobile devices, gaming systems and other electronics.

MSNBC.com bolstered its breaking news coverage and social media street cred back in November by acquiring the rights to manage the "Breaking News" Twitter feed, a 3-year-old feed started by a 20-year-old Dutch man by the name of Michael van Poppel. (It now has 1.6 million followers). Forbes has an update on the deal, with MSNBC.com president Charlie Tillinghast noting that "not everyone wants news surrounded by takes, commentary or features."

Isilon Systems said today that Kyoto University's Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine will use the Seattle company's digital storage technology for a project related to diagnostic medical imaging.

Headline of the day comes via Slate: "Fail to the Chief: Why hasn't the Obama administration lived up to its webby promises?"