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"We use a few different methods to open new windows to display dynamically generated PDF's - target="_blank" and window.open - and got a message from a user that stated he refuses to 'cripple' his computer to allow popups from our site." ... ^top "Today one on my sites had an unusually low click through rate. I checked it out and and there is one ad pretty spammy ad taking up many of the ad spots. Even though it is the same ad text, they are using many different URLs." ... ^top "Loss-making Lycos Europe plans to sell some of its assets and close the rest after failing to find an investor..." ... ^top "Combined with web sales on U.S. Thanksgiving the previous day, the figure rose 2 percent, but sales are down 4 percent to date in November from a year ago,..." ... ^top ^top One petabyte is 12 times the amount of archived web data in the U.S. Library of Congress. It took just over six hours for Google Labs to perform the sort operation. ... ^top "Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources." reports WebGuild.org ... ^top "The total number of searches decreased 2 percent to 7.78 billion for the U.S., Nielsen said. Google's searches increased 8.1 percent to 4.76 billion for the month, giving the company a 61.2 percent share of the market." ... ^top "Web site terms of service, which end users universally ignore, suddenly have teeth: violating them is a federal hacking offense, punishable with jail time." ... ^top "To develop the Yahoo! Year in Review, our editors analyze search queries based upon a number of factors, including absolute volume and growth versus previous periods, to see which themes and trends bubble to the surface. Individual users and their search queries always remain anonymous." ... ^top "I see more and more people complaining that AdSense rejected their application, and to be accepted they must adhere to certain guidelines..." ... ^top "China's Internet search leader Baidu said on Friday it will overhaul operations after state media said it allowed unlicensed medical services to buy high search rankings to win more customers." ... ^top ^top "An update will be rolling out during the next few days..." ... ^top "Yahoo originally acquired Kelkoo for $576 million in 2004 as the deal was expected to beef up the Internet portal's focus abroad. But Yahoo said in October 2007 that it was considering strategic options for Kelkoo, including a possible sale." ... ^top "The Mozilla Foundation pulled in $75 million in revenue in 2007, the "vast majority" of it from a search partnership with Google,..." ... ^top ^top Googles random test is flipped live for whole internet tonight. ... ^top ^top "WebmasterWorld members discuss the the impact of site video in Google SERPs, as raised in discussions at PubCon Las Vegas 2008." ... ^top "From an initial play around, it looks like it will be very useful for campaigns that potentially have lots if missed opportunities for good paid keywords..." ... ^top "Microsoft decided to switch to a free product because there are still so many PCs out there that lack any antivirus software." ... ^top Spamcop reports 75% drop in spam after a California-based web hosting firm, McColo Corp., loses its Internet access. ... ^top ^top There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. It turns out that a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. ... ^top "The Mozilla Browser comes in many flavours. WebmasterWorld Members discuss the detail in correctly identifying all these differing browsers and UAs. ... ^top "The Washington Attorney General's Office is suing a Redmond-based seller of e-commerce services whose failed promises to rev up Web traffic for small businesses drove many customers to file complaints." ... ^top "Mozilla is now planning to end Firefox 2 support in the near future, perhaps before the end of the year. This change could leave a lot of users - and not just Firefox users - in a difficult position." - LWN.net ... ^top Google has added sophisticated voice recognition technology to their search software for the Apple iPhone. ... ^top NYTimes: "The factory in Austin, Minn., has been operating two shifts a day seven days a week producing the canned lunch meat... the long hours are likely to continue indefinitely." ... ^top Yahoo, under fierce financial pressure, has begun a search to replace company co-founder Jerry Yang as chief executive ... ^top "The earnings ceiling is a bit of speculation that has divided publishers for awhile." ... ^top "In the coming days, the FCC will issue a report outlining the rules and requirements for this spectrum." ... ^top "Internet search leaders Yahoo and Google have given the Justice Department a revised version of their search advertising partnership in hopes of winning antitrust approval,..." ... ^top "We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition," he said. "I don't know why they would be either, frankly." ... ^top "To this day the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo," ... ^top "It's disappointing to us that Google didn't want to defend this deal," ... ^top "Microsoft has launched a broad new effort, known as Microsoft BizSpark, to help entrepreneurs and startups get off the ground using Microsoft tools and technology." ... ^top "That wouldn't have been in the long-term interests of Google or our users, so we have decided to end the agreement." ... ^top ICANN has posted draft contracts for new gTLDs. This would re-open the issue of tiered pricing for domains that the registry operators lost 2 years ago due to public outcry. ... ^top Is 3-way link building an effective way to rank? ... ^top "AdSense is ceding greater control to publishers over what ads are shown on their websites, plus dramatically speeding up the effectiveness of the competitive ad filter." ... ^top ^top "I'm noticing a lot of major sites using the nofollow on pages like "about", "contact", and some dynamically created pages." ... ^top "Yahoo said that its net income for the quarter fell 64 percent, to $54 million, or 4 cents a share, from $151 million, or 11 cents a share, a year earlier." ... ^top "WebmasterWorld members discuss solutions for child-friendly website creation and management. Young children know how to use the Internet, so why can't they have their own website!" ... ^top ^top "You could call it stealth innovation." ... ^top "Ending support for expressions, a feature often used to fix the very issues we have worked hard to address in this release, helps make IE8 more standard, faster and more secure for our users." ... ^top "While the deals are small, they nevertheless signal a continued flow of cash into the sector." ... ^top "...developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world." ... ^top "For the past almost four years, this has been a large effort between Google and our partners. There have been a lot of people working on the code, but that's going to be multiplied by several orders of magnitude." ... ^top "Apple's fourth-quarter profit soared past expectations on extremely strong sales of the iPhone, but revenue was a little light, and the company left itself a lot of wiggle room heading into what it called a "challenging" environment." ... ^top "Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can detect whether your computer system requires this update. The update requires a restart." ... ^top "Baidu just released their financial results for the 3rd quarter (ended Sept. 30 2008) and it looks quite good for the Chinese search giant." ... ^top "I was wondering if this could have a negative effect on customer trust." ... ^top "We're gradually rolling out this functionality to publishers, and you'll see an invitation link at the top of your 'Overview' and 'Advanced Reports' pages when it's been enabled for your account." ... ^top "We are only requesting Yahoo to stop selling our trademarks and related terms to others who purchase them to confuse and/or divert consumers searching for AA.com or American's products." ... ^top "Now Google is applying "neuromarketing" to video advertising." ... ^top ^top ^top "Yahoo Inc. says it will invest at least $100 million in a new data center in Nebraska, creating at least 100 jobs." ... ^top ^top ^top "Russia's Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) said on Thursday it had refused to let Google acquire 100 percent of the Begun advertising agency." ... ^top ^top "Today we're announcing many more ways to interact with your network on LinkedIn... it's a new way to create projects and collaborate, share information, customize your profile, or gain key insights" ... ^top "As part of the next release of Office, we're announcing that Microsoft will deliver Office Web applications, lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, through a browser." ... ^top "Just a heads up that I'm seeing an extremely large-scale phishing attack against enom underway at the moment." ... ^top "Microsoft and Yahoo have formed a group with two other partners to give law enforcement a hand in stopping bogus lottery scams and educating Internet surfers." ... ^top "Yahoo's Zimbra, the provider of a communications and collaboration suite that rivals Microsoft's Office and Outlook/Exchange, will make its cloud computing debut on Tuesday." ... ^top ^top "We are happy to support that goal by providing OpenID-based sign-in functionality to Windows Live ID account holders." ... ^top ^top "...new categorization system that you can use for describing the product type of your items." ... ^top "Looking at the value commercial entities are getting out of Twitter could help us build a sustainable company," ... ^top "Microsoft Corp took the wraps off a new computing service that allows companies to use its data centres to run their Web applications in a bid to become a player in the so-called "cloud computing" trend." ... ^top ^top "What we'd like to do is raise awareness so that people feel more confident about using the Internet," Cranton said. "We don't want to see a reduction in e-commerce." ... ^top "But as the climate has soured, network executives say many ad deals in the pipeline have been reduced or pulled. Tight wallets have forced ad agencies to get tough, even canceling ad deals to get a better rate." ... ^top "Yahoo had about 20.2 percent of queries in September, up from 19.6 percent in August,..." ... ^top "WebmasterWorld members report Alexa ignoring noarchive." ... ^top Webmasters are buzzing with the dramatic changes that are now showing in Google Search results. Is this exactly what Google intends, or are there some significant bugs in the current recipe? ... ^top "They've automated an OCR process that converts scanned images of documents into indexable and searchable text." ... ^top ^top "Google sends AdSense publishers an e-mail giving them a positive spin in these uncertain times" ... ^top "Google Inc may decide to scrap its proposed partnership with Yahoo Inc rather than accept government-imposed antitrust restrictions on it, according to two sources familiar with the companies' discussions." ... ^top "Key components of the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) are now open to you. Build applications on Yahoo! using the Yahoo! Application Platform." ... ^top "Websites can now allow Google Account users to login to their website by using the OpenID protocol." ... ^top ^top "Telstra's Sensis has given up on competing with Google in online search and mapping, announcing today it would provide its Yellow business listings to Google Maps and abandon its own search engine for one powered by Google." ... ^top "In the latest edition of its twice-a-year 'Security Intelligence Report,' Microsoft said that the amount of malicious or potentially harmful software removed from Windows computers grew by 43 percent during the first half of 2008." ... ^top "...within the W3C there is work in progress in two separate successors for HTML4.x / XHTML1.x: Whatever happens there it will surely affect us, the webmasters. And what a better place to discuss the topic that at WebmasterWorld?" ... ^top "For those using Google alerts, you may be interested to know that you can now get these delivered in RSS rather than email format." ... ^top "On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a measure that would make white space available for wireless broadband." ... ^top "...this is a great feature. I think people will be extremely shocked as to how many duff links they have pointing at their site and how careless the average netizen is when they cut and paste links." ... ^top ^top "...lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany over displaying photos and artworks as thumbnails in a preview of search results." ... ^top "On Monday, the popular social network is officially launching a self-service advertising program called MySpace MyAds that lets small businesses and individuals create ads tailored to the personal information on its users' age, gender, location and interests." ... ^top "This is pretty major. At one point these guys delivered up to one-third of all spam," ... ^top ^top "The law also steepens penalties for intellectual-property infringement, and increases resources for the Department of Justice to coordinate for federal and state efforts against counterfeiting and piracy." ... ^top ^top "...now is a good time to announce that we've decided to officially call the next version of Windows, "Windows 7" ... ^top "Google insisted that all advertisers using the service would have to be regulated in Britain or Europe and would have to have internet links to organisations helping problem gamblers." ... ^top "The state of Kentucky's attempt to block resident's access to 141 online gambling sites has proceeded to the next level,..." ... ^top "Now, we show one set of statistics for Google and another set aggregating search partner performance." ... ^top "Google reported a profit that easily outpaced analysts' forecasts, and the company's shares jumped in extended trading." ... ^top MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) is Opera's new analysis of the structure of the web. It includes information on the most widely used tags, doctypes, validation data, average page size and much more. ... ^top "...AdWords display ad builder, which lets you create professional-looking display ads in AdWords without needing to hire a designer or start from scratch." ... ^top "Why can't advertisers just buy their way to to the top ad position?" ... ^top ^top ^top "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) ... ^top "What have your experiences been? Is it easier to get links if you go with a professional looking template (including the footer link to the designer) than if you build your own site (which looks good and neat, but not "great")? Or doesn't it matter a lot except for certain ... ^top The opt-in "first click free" program was created for sites that require registration or subscription, but still want a presence on the search results. The Official Google Blog now offers more detail on the program, beyond the short explanations that were previously available. ... ^top "WebmasterWorld members discuss ideas to help beat the economic downturn and financial crisis." (-subscription required) ... ^top "With this upgrade Ask.com, owned by IAC, is also aiming to recapture the functionality that gave it its prominence during its heyday: the ability for people to type in queries in natural language." ... ^top "Internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for the first six months of 2008 were $11.5 billion, setting yet another new half-year record that represents a 15.2 percent increase over the first half of 2007. The second quarter of '08 was up 12.8% over the same period of 2007 and showed a slight ... ^top "Now, after years of defending his Internet conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Mr. Diller broke apart the company six weeks ago, explaining it was too complicated and in too many diverse businesses." ... ^top "EBay, which has faced slower growth in its core auction business over the last few years, said it will buy the Bill Me Later payments service for about $820 million in cash and $125 million in options." ... ^top "At some level, you can control the public discourse from Wikipedia," Byrne says. "No matter what journalists say about the reliability of Wikipedia, they still use it as a resource." ... ^top ^top "Born out of our acquisition of IndexTools in May, Yahoo! Web Analytics (beta) provides powerful data and insights reporting that help website owners evaluate their marketing performance and tweak their website designs." ... ^top "Yahoo has developed a new online calendar that the company said offers significant improvement over the current product because it makes it easier to share items and has a more interactive interface." ... ^top "Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers." ... ^top "Now Facebook users in the U.S. have the option to "Search Facebook" or "Search the Web." In addition, adCenter is delivering search ads alongside those results." ... ^top "Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features." ... ^top ^top "According to Christian Oestlien, the senior product manager for AdSense for Games, the program's beta launch will focus on the placement of a variety of forms of ads in Flash-based casual games and some larger titles." ... ^top "Why click a button and make the number go up by one? Why does that matter?" ... ^top "Clickjacking has been identified as a vulnerability for the Adobe Flash player, as well as for every major browser, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and even the newly released Google Chrome." ... ^top ^top "Adding any form of macros or additional scopes and indirections, including symbolic constants, is not just redundant, but changes CSS in ways that make it unsuitable for its intended audience." ... ^top | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||