"Opera Unite harnesses the power of today's fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time." ...
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Google's highly anticipated clarification about PageRank sculpting is now published. The quick version - the change in scoring happened a year ago. ...
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"...if you find the same item cheaper within 7 days we will refund the difference..." ...
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"Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it." ...
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"WebmasterWorld members evaluate SEO options of subdomain or file directory for the blog." ...
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"Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer." ...
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"Ask.jp has announced that they are reorganizing to focus on B2B solutions." ...
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"...you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile..." ...
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"...attackers were able to penetrate his servers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in HyperVM, a virtualization application..." ...
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"If you do nothing and don't adapt you'll get nothing new." (-subscription required) ...
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"More than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days." ...
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Members discuss some of the no-so-obvious differences they have discovered between these two major PPC offerings. ...
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"...a dashboard that will provide you with information on how Google users are interacting with your local listing in Google Maps and Google Search." ...
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"We're rolling out some updates to our crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms over the next few days." ...
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The rel="nofollow" attribute still blocks PR transfer, but it no longer creates an increase in the PR transferred by other links on the page. The blocked PR now just falls into a black hole. ...
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"Windows 7 will become generally available on Oct. 22, 2009, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be broadly available at the same time." ...
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"The EU tried an unbundling strategy with Microsoft before, and that effort failed miserably." ...
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"This issue is isolated to Linux users, and our engineers are looking into it." ...
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"The hackers got passwords through what is known as a phishing attack, breaking into accounts of some Facebook members, then sending e-mails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites." ...
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"If you have ads in your account which were previously disapproved for trademark policy and that comply with the new policy, you may submit those ads for re-review and eligible ads may begin showing in the U.S. starting June 15th." ...
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"An error in one of our systems caused us to direct some of our web traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam." ...
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Where-oh-where are the missing links? ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss an ongoing problem of finding quality two-word domains." ...
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"Recently we re-wrote a news article from another... website." ...
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Google held a big conference where they displayed several new features, including Rich Snippets, Google Squared, Search Options, Wonder Wheel and SkyMap. ...
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"Why would Twitter block one of the ways we use it to find new contacts?" ...
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"How to implement the keyword ranking position, referring URL in Google Analytics." ...
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"Safka will be succeeded by Scott Garell, who has been serving as president, the company said." ...
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"Such a serious and sustained violation of the EU's antitrust rules cannot be tolerated." ...
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"The F.T.C. has seriously lagged in coming to grips with the problems surrounding the online ad market, specifically click fraud." ...
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"By incorporating standard annotations in your pages, you not only make your structured data available for Google's search results, but also for any service or tool that supports the same standard." - Webmaster Central Blog ...
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"Not all content is the same. Understanding the differences will positively impact the link building process." (-subscription required) ...
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"The company line up until now has been an early 2010 release." ...
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A WebmasterWorld member has a tale of caution for us all: "I accidentally let one domain of mine expire and renewed it after it showed an "expired domain" message for a day or so." ...
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"In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it." ...
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"An AdSense publisher sees first hand the dramatic damage the economy has caused to his niche and now understands why his CTR has been falling." ...
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"Topsy is designed to mine the collective signal from the social web in real-time. To measure the relative importance of each search result, Topsy examines the links being cited, the description of these links and the influence of each person citing a link." ...
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"'This investment demonstrates Facebook's ongoing success at creating a global network for people to share and connect,' added Mr Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive." ...
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"The results all feed into Google's backend system, helping advertisers devise more-efficient campaigns." ...
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"AdSense publishers discuss ways Google's system can be improved." ...
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WebmasterWorld Exclusive Content. An indepth and advanced tutorial on how to effectively setup, market, and monetize your sites and services through the usage of Twitter. (-subscription required) ...
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"I can guarantee you there will be some acquisitions, and we will do some stuff in house," ...
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Suggestions are now appearing in the Results Page search box, not just the home page. Adwords are now included in some lists, as well as navigational links and personalized suggestions - when you're logged in. The results count number, however, has now been removed. ...
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"...a new version of Google Chrome that is faster than ever..." ...
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"...it's the SEOs and directories built solely for SEO purposes that have done much to harm the way site owners approach legitimate traffic driving directories." ...
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"For months, Microsoft has been testing a prototype of the new search engine, code-named Kumo, with Microsoft employees." ...
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"Every phone call was tracked, every order was measured by where it came from, and it told us very quickly that Twitter is useful," ...
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"I think that's going to be an issue in deciding whether to certify the class," said Mark Janis, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law." ...
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"The world's No. 1 software maker said that a version of PowerPoint for Apple Inc's Mac computers is also vulnerable, though it has yet to find any evidence that hackers are actively seeking to exploit it." ...
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"Why is Google Analytics reporting that 35% of my visitors are not included in my AdSense page impressions? I checked my other sites and they all had very significant differences between Google Analytics page impressions and the AdSense page impressions." (-subscription required) ...
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"... if a user spends a great deal of time on a site, it is identified as a bookmark for later personalized searches. In other embodiments, the implicit measure may comprise at least one of the quantity of repeat visits to the site or the quantity of click-throughs on the ...
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"If you didn't program your affiliate stuff yourself, odds are you need to seek out who did and get an update from them to add in authentication or see your application break in August." ...
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"Your review of this site may be shown to other searchers in the future." ...
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"In the new Publisher Center within Ad Planner, you can claim sites you own and customize the descriptions for each." ...
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"Hulu is becoming the preferred distribution channel for the big media companies." ...
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"The Massachusetts Democrat said his legislation "will enable Americans to bet online and put an end to an inappropriate interference with their personal freedom." ...
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"A protracted war between authors of two of the most popular add-ons for the Firefox browser has prompted calls for changes in the way extensions are written." - The Register ...
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"There's no easy way to export your ads or channels or reports, or any of that stuff from your existing AdSense account." ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss the options for domain and site anonymity." ...
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"The "computational knowledge engine", as the technology is known, will be available to the public from the middle of May this year." ...
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"New to the Windows 7 RC are advancements such as Remote Media Streaming, Windows XP Mode (beta) and the upcoming beta of the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor" ...
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"I think these are pretty easily explainable cases of very wealthy individuals looking for new challenges," ...
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"(Microsoft) are working on a fix for this." ...
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New York Times: "The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the antitrust implications of Google's settlement with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service..." ...
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"AOL is creating a plethora of niche websites through automated methods... It has called this 'leaning into the fragmentation of the Web'." - Reuters ...
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"In about six months, [Google] will roll out a system that will bring high-quality news content to users without them actively looking for it." - TheWrap.com ...
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"Lovin' the classic 1994-era home page design." ...
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"To enable developers to access the stream, we've built the Facebook Open Stream API to include the emerging Activity Streams standard." ...
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"Each person defines how they want to receive alerts - through e-mail, a text message, or on their computer." ...
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Drupal is loaded with features beyond traditional content management systems, such as forums and e-commerce capabilities. Members discuss positives and negatives when selecting Drupal as a platform. ...
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"Does a brand like WordPress really need or benefit from having WP.com?" ...
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"Filing DMCAs involves sending emails, snail mail, and faxes. It can take a few days to two weeks for the results to occur and it's possible that you could create an enemy or two by going down that road."(-subscription required) ...
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"...an upcoming beta test of a new feature in the Ad Review Center called category filtering." ...
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"What can go wrong when domain name ownership or control isn't clearly settled in advance." ...
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"Facebook Inc. said it would move to implement two new governing documents after preliminary results showed that 74.4% of Facebook users who participated in a vote on the new documents supported them." ...
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"...you can surface your Google Base product information in your AdWords ads." ...
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"Microsoft Corp. on Thursday posted a sharp drop in fiscal third-quarter profit, as sales of computers loaded with its software fell and the company absorbed charges related to layoffs and declining investments." ...
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"We're continuing to evaluate the best way to move forward and are actively working with the OAuth community to resolve the issue. ...
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"Developers can integrate Google Analytics into their existing products and create standalone applications that they sell." ...
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"Clearly this is a big incentive to sign up for a Google profile, and adds a bit of competition for all the ego-surfers out there." ...
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"It shows that advertisers who advertise on the content network see good results on a number of levels..." ...
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"Google News Timeline organizes information chronologically by presenting results from Google News and other data sources on a zoomable, graphical timeline." ...
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"This subject has been discussed here before, but I've just done it again so for those who haven't been bludgeoned to death with it before, here's an easy route to traffic." (- subscription required) ...
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"Twitter has been given the all clear after a worm infected "tens of thousands of users". But experts say the attack could have been much worse." ...
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"Currently we are using 'North American YSM' and should only be getting North American traffic, but if I look through our logs I can see that 29% of the traffic is coming from foreign countries." ...
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"The law states that South Korean web sites with at least 100,000 daily visitors must force users to register with verifiable real names." ...
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"...general types of information that any company could create that was using their web site to market to a B2B base, and needed to generate more leads..." ...
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How can a site with no inbound links attain a PR5? ...
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"...it's clear that Skype has limited synergies with eBay and PayPal..." ...
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"Traffic down for popular sections of your website? Have you been losing positions in the search engines? There are many reasons why this could happen. This discussion is about one of them, which is plagiarism." (-subscription required) ...
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"Thought I'd post the results of our recent work." ...
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"Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for a total of $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt." ...
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"The company will on Monday announce its latest version of its Flash multimedia platform that will essentially put its technology in Internet connected TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, and other digital home devices." ...
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There are some who approach this John Woo-style, kicking down the door with DMCA's flying because, let's face it, it's gratifying to see the bad guys go down. However there's another approach that is less emotional but every bit as gratifying. (-subscription required) ...
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Struggling with pagination controls? Here's a quick primer with essential algorithms and formulas. (subscription required) ...
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In the application security world, XPATH injection is the unpopular little sibling of SQL injection. ...
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"Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media." ...
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"Google's revenue, almost all of which comes from advertisements placed next to related search results, rose 6% from a year earlier but slipped 3% from the fourth quarter." ...
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"..a list of the ways sites can link, refer, or point urls to your pages other than by using direct hrefs.... ways that SE's may run into and use urls they find." ...
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"I'm sure most people who read this headline think "this doesn't apply to me, this will never happen to me". Maybe so, but just in case it ever does I want you to know this is your chance to speak to ICANN about you views on due process, fair procedings, ...
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"A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system." ...
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Webmasters discuss being able to better integrate ads into their websites ...
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Members discuss whether Google recently began giving more top rankings to big brands. ...
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"So tell me, should I Feed those 10,000 Subscribers?" ...
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A general survey thread on: "SEO friendly Content Management Systems" (-subscription required.) ...
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"The blog cited a February 20 Bartz memo to employees, in which she said, "Get well-rested, because next week's a biggie."" ...
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"A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user." ...
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WebmasterWorld Exclusive Content: "A lot of us will probably spend quite a considerable amount of time link building. I find recording my correspondence to be vital in tracking who I've contacted, when I first made contact and the outcome. Sending link request emails is very much a numbers game. A ...
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"As the economy continues to put pressure on advertising budgets, marketers are looking for increased accountability for every dollar they spend. Yahoo!'s new targeting products significantly improve the ability for search and display advertisers to reach their target audience, providing increased efficiency and accountability," ...
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"We all know that the economic downturn has been affecting all types of businesses. So, if you manage an ecommerce site what can you do? Well, we are sharing some things that we have done recently to increase sales." ...
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In a era of mega large 24-30inch display screens, iPhones, NetBooks, mobile phones, and wide format screens - choosing the right screen resolution is difficult. In this indepth thread, designers discuss current thinking on site width and screen size. (- subscription required) ...
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"we are joining forces with other major search engines in a timely partnership to support a special search index feature called "canonical URL tag" ...
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"The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3" ...
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"So today I'm rolling out a new management structure that I believe will make Yahoo! a lot faster on its feet." ...
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WebmasterWorld Exclusive Content: Indepth article on the current state of CSS. "It is a changing field as browsers catch up with a slowly evolving standard. Some new browsers are here that might need us to change a few things in how we do things as well. Some might disagree ...
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"We are applying to become a third party in the European Commission's proceeding." ...
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"...relevant outbounds to good quality pages are good for ranking. But I want to take that thought and move the ball a few yards down the field." (- subscription required) ...
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Something new is being spotted on google.co.uk. These mini-sitelinks appear as a three or four links in one horizontal line, just above the green URL -- and this is most surpising, they are not limited to the listing in position #1 ...
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"Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action." ...
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"...Bartz suggested Yahoo might seek to partner with social networking companies rather than build its own products in this area." ...
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"Schmidt also said that Google "was pretty inactive right now" on the mergers and acquisitions front, blaming unfavorable prices." ...
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"Today, I got a message in my account stating I can switch my account currency to Euros." ...
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"The new service was unveiled in an internal memo sent by the head of research at the company's online services division on Monday. It did not provide details about the new features." ...
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"By creating fake messages padded with details of Facebook members the thieves are capitalising on the trust and social links that drive the network." ...
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"Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter," ...
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"The Internet Bus Project is an attempt to educate people about what the Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives, by taking the Internet experience to them through a customised Internet-enabled bus, which will travel to several towns and cities across India." ...
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Thread-of-the-Month nominee: "...we had a contest here, and everyone had exactly three hours and no more to start a website from scratch. Buy a new domain, put up a CMS, add some content pages, get some links, and monetize it. Could you do it and make 500 a year..." (-subscription ...
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"...new requirement to enable cost data importing for linked Google AdWords and Analytics accounts." ...
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"Google Checkout will increase their fees to the EXACT same structure as PayPal, beginning May 5, 2009" ...
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"...just some simple tips to make these bad economic times a little easier." ...
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"Today we are launching 'interest-based' advertising as a beta test on our partner sites and on YouTube. These ads will associate categories of interest (...) with your browser, based on the types of sites you visit and the pages you view." ...
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"The U.S. companies see the outcome of the fight in Europe as key," ...
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"...i've read in several places that when a page has PR4 it gets crawled more often..." ...
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This bill, sponsored by 1-800-Contacts, prevents search engines from being able to serve competitive ads if someone searches for a branded/trademarked keyword. The bill passed the Utah House today and now goes to the state Senate. ...
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"Microsoft has acknowledged the findings of a pair of bloggers who discovered that starting with the next major test release of Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 will be able to be removed." ...
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"Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop said Microsoft would release an ad-supported version of Microsoft Office 14." ...
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"The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist," ...
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"This new search engine beta actually will work with a lot of English keyword searches in addition to the Japanese." ...
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"AOL snatched up Google Inc. executive Tim Armstrong as its new chief executive Thursday, as the Time Warner Inc. unit seeks to revamp its Internet presence." - MarketWatch ...
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"Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker says the Chrome browser is making the foundation behind Firefox rethink its reliance on revenues from Google." ...
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"Oh, by the way, does the site work with search engines?" ...
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"Legislation will require out-of-state companies doing business in California to collect sales and use taxes required by law." ...
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"Users will be able to download IE8 in 25 languages at 12:00 noon Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday from Microsoft's IE Web site and its online download center." ...
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"Ideally we want links from the top tier of 'good'. Maybe it's good to get .gov links, or .edu links, or really old links. But sometimes we can't." ...
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"Facebook will let you 'clear' your status. Once you do, you can't get it back." ...
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"we're deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches..." ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss ways to generate the correct complexity and level of writing. Are there sofware solutions, or is it a service that's required?" ...
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"Instead of hand editing 100 files, what I'd like to do is make the same edits to all of them, all at once." ...
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"What are some common ethical traps that a noob may be tempted to fall into?" ...
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"...we've decided to retire this feature at the end of April..." ...
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"..."making your online business SE proof..." ...
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WebHostingTalk was maliciously attacked over the weekend. ...
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"Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the San Francisco start-up is watching the outside initiatives closely as it prepares to launch its own fee-based services this year, but doesn't view them as competition. "We want to work with those companies that are already making an effort," he says." (-subscription required) ...
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"The group, called Google Ventures, is expected to invest up to $100 million over the next 12 months..." ...
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"... free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday." ...
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"The new service will attract users away from illegal download sites because the music and service will be of a higher quality,..." ...
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"...they claimed that a holding company as applied to them to register similar domain names to mine..." ...
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"Gideon has played an important role in helping us achieve our financial success, building a strong finance team, and establishing the core financial operations of our company," said Facebook in its statement." ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss methods for efficiently monitoring the freshness of directory listings." ...
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"The Encarta software will be removed from stores by June, Microsoft said, and the affiliated worldwide Web sites will be closed by the end of October. (The Japanese site will continue until the end of December.)" ...
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"The search giant has started offering marketers ad units that stream their five most recent "tweets" across the Google AdSense network." ...
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"The question is, should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyright... not steal, but take," said Murdoch. "Not just them but Yahoo." ...
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"The new law, which is based on the European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED), allows copyright holders to obtain a court order forcing ISPs to provide the IP addresses identifying which computers have been sharing copyrighted material." ...
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"Google and countless other American companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year defending and settling frivolous patent lawsuits - resources that would be much better spent developing revolutionary new technologies and creating jobs." ...
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This 6.5 minute video takes the viewer on a tour of the physical plant for one of Google's data centers that is built in a modular fashion - using the kind of containers that are employed in the shipping industry. ...
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Often a broken site is not the browser's fault, but it most definitely is the browser's problem. The Opera Core Developers have published an article that explores the under-appreciated area of "site patching". ...
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"Some sites don't have it, some have a page with an email that you click and opens your email client, and some others put the email as a gif image to avoid being scanned on the web and receive spam. All of the previous cases are wasting the potential and ...
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"As of May 1, 2009, these paid search Associates will not be paid referral fees." ...
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"Under the new regulations being proposed, such bloggers would be legally liable if they make untrue statements about the products or services." ...
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"Microsoft will provide updates addressing critical remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer, Windows, and Office, and less severe vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft's Forefront Edge Security." ...
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The EMCA proposes new features for Javascript, JScript and actionscript. This would standardize new functions that are provided by individual browsers but not yet universally adopted. ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss the Google AdWords interface, and whether it has become too feature rich and complicated for the non-specialist." ...
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Advice for Twitter beginners on how to get started using the microblogging platform for fun and profit. ...
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Exclusive Indepth Thread: "WebmasterWorld Members discuss the myths and truths around search engine optimization." (- subscription required) ...
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"Webmasterworld Members discuss the options to create eBooks, and help protect the content subsequent to distribution." (- subscription required) ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss ways to encourage subscribers to an RSS feed." (- subscription required) ...
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Googles random test is flipped live for whole internet tonight. ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss the key aspects of the SEO interview process. What should we know before inviting in an SEO consultant or company?" (-subscription required) ...
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"WebmasterWorld members discuss ideas to help beat the economic downturn and financial crisis." (-subscription required) ...
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"WebmasterWorld members try to pin down the acceptable number of in-bound links to avoid penalities by the search engines." (-subscription required) ...
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