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"By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter." ...

"... "Show options" toggle and noticed a whole slew of geographic options that were new to me, including "nearby" and others, too. Apparently it all depends on what "default location" Google has recorded for your computer." ...

"... we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we've detected on their websites, including: Spammy or abused user-generated content" ...

"An independent review recently concluded that decision was unfair and that the plan should be reconsidered." ...

"Amazon did state they would reinstate Colorado-based Associates if the state of Colorado brought the law into compliance with what the US Supreme Court said was constitutional." ...

"Nearly 80 percent of people worldwide consider access to the Internet to be a basic human right, rather than a privilege..." ...

"Payment for some Brazilian Google AdSense editors won't happen this month. In an official note on its online support forum, Google said that "some editors won't be paid in February" due to a "processing problem"." ...

"[GOOGLE] has asked a federal court to keep documents filed in the case under seal for another three months. Viacom wants to unseal all but the most sensitive of trade secrets within two weeks and Google wants to wait until June 4. " ...

Now added to Webmaster Tools Section. ...

"The service runs on set-top boxes "using elements of Google's Android operating system..." ...

"...running nothing but Linux for a week. The aim being that as I discovered problems I would try and find solutions, in the hope that these ideas may be of use to other members." ...

"The standoff between Google and the Chinese government took another turn this weekend, with state officials saying that the search giant had not come forward with a formal complaint about the hacking attacks that prompted it to threaten to shutter its operations in the country." ...

"The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most significant programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities." ...

The highly regarded Search Marketing Desktop by Yahoo - is no longer in beta. No word if Microsoft will adopt the tool for their usage. ...

"...launching the Google Public Data Explorer, an experimental visualization tool in Google Labs." ...

Bing Says: "Last month we pushed out our largest amount of new imagery EVER in terms of square kilometers. This month, we're blowing THAT record out of the water. You thought 1 million+ sq. km. was large? How about 6.7 million square kilometers! It's pretty much unfathomable. The big winners? ...

"This document outlines the steps that are necessary in order to make your AJAX application crawlable. " ...

"Microsoft will certainly have its work cut out winning over consumers, it currently holds about a 3% share of the search market while Google controls about 90%." ...

"What are the greatest unsolved problems on the web today?" (subscription required) ...

"... by the time I "get" something, it's too late and that boat has sank. So how long is good content going to hold up the monetization of web sites?" ...

"WebmasterWorld Members are puzzled by the exact timeframe of the appearance." ...

"The final choice screen design leaves the vast majority of users unaware that there are more than five browsers to choose from," ...

"The theory is if a machine is known to be infected do you want it to connect to the network and infect everyone else?" ...

"Herlihy [Google] told a baffled audience, echoing comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the recent GSM Association Mobile World Congress 2010 that everything the company will do going forward will be via a mobile lens..." ...

Googles SERP's have long been lamented as commercial top heavy. Google drops all pretense with it's latest live testing with a format that openly suggests commercial searches. ...

"...one of the biggest areas of failure for the company [Google] is in "search result presentation," where the company scored a 33/100 or lower in three different categories, the lowest being "title tag format and length."" ...

"The stars feature essentially takes the best of Google's ill-fated SearchWiki service, and leaves the rest. SearchWiki was simply too complex, allowing users to not only re-rank results, but also delete, add and comment on them. This seemed to undermine what the search engine claims to do best: serve you ...

Police gave a news conference on Wednesday, a day after they arrested three people for what they believe to have been one of the biggest computer crimes ever detected. ...

"PuSH is a way for services that subscribe to updates from your blog to get updates even faster." ...

"Omniture division announced this morning that the company's widely used analytics software for online marketing campaigns will be extended to automate the process of buying advertising spots on Facebook, and then tracking the results." ...

"...a non-profit organization dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors." ...

"WebmasterWorld Members discuss the latest changes to Google's SERPs." ...

"...By going after the biggest Android manufacturer, Apple is putting all Android cell phone makers, and by extension Google, on notice. The battle lines are now drawn." ...

"It covers using location for targeting, setting a minimum price bid for an ad, offering performance analytics, and modifying the content of an ad." ...

"With access to the full Firehose of data, it is possible to move far beyond the Twitter experiences we know today." ...

"... AT&T went out of their way to replace Google search with Yahoo." ...

"... machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins." ...

"Google has acquired Picnik, one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud." ...

Beats top browsers in most speed tests. ...

"The nature of the business could be embarrassing to the bank, the manager explained." ...

"Google is experimenting with markup for product data. We do not currently display this information, unless the product is part of a review." ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the true cost of quality outsourced link development." ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the issue of link buying and selling, and the impact on Google ranking." ...

"If all algorithmic ranking and delivery of social activity updates to social network users falls under this patent Facebook applied for in August 2006 (one month before it launched its controversial Newsfeed) then there's going to be a whole lot of trouble for sites all over the web." ...

"European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google Inc. to warn people before it sends cameras out into cities to take pictures for its Street View maps, adding to the company's legal worries in Europe." ...

"One-third of the country (or 93 million Americans) don't have high-speed Internet access at home..." ...

A California veterinary center has sued review site Yelp for allegedly promising to bury bad reviews in exchange for purchasing $3,600 worth of advertising on the site. ...

"The integration is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide personally relevant information to people, from sources across the Web." ...

In a case that could have major implications for Internet freedom, three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations after a video of an autistic boy being abused was posted online. ...

"The European Commission has launched an anti-trust investigation against Google after three online companies alleged that the internet giant's search functions were penalising their businesses." ...

"The company claims that its automatic query and information integration patents are being violated." ...

"$1 million and $300K .Org domain sales shows that the .Org gTLD isn't detrimental to domain value, development desirability and projected profitability." ...

"...that's an average of 600 tweets per second." ...

"The new DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) from Google is a platform that helps you more effectively sell, manage, deliver and track both directly and indirectly sold advertising campaigns across your website." ...

"Due to the nature of this interruption we will be experiencing extended outages." ...

"These updates are all ranked to reflect the most relevant, freshest results, many of which are just seconds old...." ...

"Law firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Wednesday filed a class-action complaint in San Jose, Calif., federal court against Google, and its Buzz technology...The suit, reported by ABC News, is the first reported suit filed against Google about Buzz, which unexpectedly exposed relationships users had with others when Google ...

"Over the next few weeks, Microsoft will begin offering a 'Web browser choice screen' to Internet Explorer users in Europe, as required by the European Commission." ...

"We need to dig deeper and find out exactly what happened, why, and how to recover more gracefully next time and isolate problems like this so they don't affect our other locations." ...

"Microsoft's plans to buy Yahoo's internet search and search advertising businesses have been cleared by both European and US regulators." ...

"WebmasterWorld members are reporting Bing's spidering and SERPs updates are now much faster." ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the topic of page delivery serving via Google into certain countries, including Geolocation IP identification, Google Webmaster Tools, htaccess, GeoIP Database, etc." ...

"Some people say adsense is better for them on many of their websites than affiliate programs. I'm wondering if the main difference between these kind of people is that some people are persistent but in a 'lazy way', whereas others are persistent in an 'aggressive way'." ...

"...Buzz is being investigated to see whether it violates Canadian privacy laws." ...

Google has admitted to BBC News that testing of its controversial social network Buzz was insufficient ...

"... stores pay $25/month to appear directly in the organic search results (not an ad on the side)." ...

"Twenty-four of the largest phone operators have banded together to challenge the dominance of mobile app stores, such as that operated by Apple." ...

"The software has a redesigned user interface and incorporates many Microsoft services such as Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music service." ...

"This trend is shifting the way Web site operators approach online marketing, even as Google takes steps to move into the social-media world." ...

"Webmasterworld Members discuss the issue of a shopping-style site scraping content without permission, but providing a link back to the original site. Is it good or bad?" ...

"WebmasterWorld Members discuss page loading from a usability perspective." ...

"A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.42.34 and earlier." ...

"I've just launched a new website and am going to back it up with a link building campaign." ...

"ICANN terminated its accreditation agreement with two registrars ISPREG LTD and SBNames Ltd for failure to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)..." ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss how best to handle manufacturers' minimum advertised pricing." ...

"... we heard from people that the checkbox for choosing not to display this information was too hard to find, and based on this feedback, we've changed the notice to make it very clear," ...

"My privacy concerns are not trite. They are linked to my actual physical safety, and I will now have to spend the next few days maintaining that safety by continually knocking down followers as they pop up..." ...

"...we've made a number of updates to the Bing Maps platform to bring this idea to life through high resolution imagery from outer space all the way down to the front door of the bakery." ...

"That is the stake we have put in the ground. We will continue to show innovation and drive lots of great features and products into the marketplace and wow our users," ...

"Is there a possibility my rankings in Google might slide due to me moving to a new ip." ...

"The regulators recently let PayPal know about revised licensing rules that we are now actively engaged in securing. Personal payments to and from India will be suspended for at least a few months until we fully resolve the questions from the Indian regulators." ...

Google tempts fate by biting hand that feeds it: "We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks..." ...

I am getting the following message in the SERP: "Google would like to have access to your location. The Google Toolbar will periodically use the network to keep your location up to date." To the right of this, they have the buttons "Share My Information and Don't Share." ...

"You will automatically follow the people you e-mail and chat with on a regular basis." ...

"WebmasterWorld members evalaute the positive and negative aspects of using absolute or relative links." ...

"Basically students were told how to steal accounts and use trojan programs. Sometimes trainers show us how to write programs," ...

Microsoft gets to power the search box in Facebook ...

"WebmasterWorld Members discuss the latest changes to Google's SERPs." ...

"I put up a paragraph on the homepage talking about say 'red widgets in oklahoma'. Then I link those words (red widgets in oklahoma) right back to the homepage. In other words, my homepage links to itself, with some nice juicy text." ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the many benefits and pitfalls of going it alone." ...

"The amended settlement agreement still confers significant and possibly anti-competitive advantages on Google as a single entity," the DOJ said." ...

"A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update." ...

"In the first case of its kind, an Australian court has ruled that an internet service provider cannot be responsible for illegal downloading." ...

"...everything looks in order in the headers. Its even to the correct email address..." ...

"Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership. But sources with knowledge of the arrangement, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google's policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans' ...

"Yahoo said it will continue to provide search and display advertising, content distribution and its APT ad platform to its newspaper partners." ...

"There [are] not 50 companies compromised. There are thousands of companies compromised. Actively, right now." ...

"We strongly suggest that you use different passwords for each service you sign up for." ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the best fonts and sizes for an ecommerce site" ...

"This changes everything! - before - a well placed image would bring in traffic - and a enough revenue to cover costs - etc." ...

"Starting today, customers and partners in countries across the globe will be able to launch their Windows Azure and SQL Azure production applications and services with the support of the full Service Level Agreements (SLAs)." ...

"Long time and well known SEO firm, MakeMeTop was just acquired by Unica" ...

"...the company was considering more transparency." ...

"Quite simply, it comes down to the simple fact that IPv6 is the future of the Internet," ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss how to make Facebook work for a business." (-subscription required) ...

"The firm said from 1 March some of its services, such as Google Docs, would not work 'properly' with the browser." ...

"WebmasterWorld members review a web site hack and discuss solutions and prevention." ...

"The company said net profit came to $6.7 billion, or 74 cents a share, up from $4.2 billion, or 47 cents a share, a year earlier." ...

"Is it now time for a not-for-profit or government funded SE to be created that could "organise the World's information" in an unbiased, objective way?" (-subscription required) ...

"A new search engine and social network provider called Goojje has appeared online in China." ...

"If you're the master of your domain or website does the buyer's identity even matter?" ...

"Clicking on "My social content" lists your public pages that might appear in other people's social results." ...

"...it would be interesting to get an update on what people are seeing in their stats programs when comparing Google to Bing." ...

"It's official, it is indeed called the iPad." ...

"I've recently bought a few .pro domains and was wondering what everyone's thoughts were on the extension." ...

"Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, in a speech to oil company executives in Houston on Thursday, criticized Google for its threats to leave China after cyberattacks allegedly launched by Chinese hackers." ...

"The Company posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per diluted share." ...

"...a change in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don't have their own feed." ...

The prefetch functionality in firefox is a security loophole. It can get your machine to download malware from websites you have not even visited. ...

"I have had a dedicated IP for years. Suddenly another domain name has appeared on my IP (using whois reverse IP lookup). The domain was redirecting to my site until I set up a 301 on my server in an effort to resolve canonical issues. I don't know how the ...

"The free IIS SEO Toolkit gives you an easy way to improve discoverability and user experience for your Web sites." ...

"According to reports, Kasperski is blocking Google AdSense as a result of the false detection of Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar virus." ...

"The global search market continues to grow at an extraordinary rate, with both highly developed and emerging markets contributing to the strong growth worldwide," said Jack Flanagan, comScore executive vice president ...

You may never need to visit a website again. "Answer highlighting helps you get to information more quickly by seeking out and bolding the likely answer to your question right in search results." ...

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"during the week of Christmas (week ending 26 December 2009) the Social Networking and Forum industry category overtook Search Engines share of visits for the very first time." ...

"Revenues for the full year ended up being $23.65 billion, up from $21.8 billion in 2008. Net income for 2009 was $6.5 billion." ...

"The US has called on Beijing to investigate the recent cyber attacks on Google, which have prompted the search giant to threaten to leave China." ...

"Our support for HTML5 is an early experiment, and there are some limitations." ...

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"Video-sharing site YouTube is taking its first steps into the online movie rental business." ...

"...Opera Software announced that it has agreed to acquire AdMarvel, a small privately-held mobile advertising company based in San Mateo, California." ...

"...recently incorporated breaking news and hot trending queries within autosuggest. Updated every 15 minutes, trending queries balance timeliness and relevance to connect you with the most prominent or topical events happening now." ...

"...I addressed the issues but someone on the Google Adwords forum has said I that I am "obviously" an affiliate." ...

Eric Shmidit was recently shown the door from the Apple board. Now it appears Apple is showing Google the door from the iPhone as well. Is it possible that Apple hates Google even more than it hates Microsoft? ... I have now seen everything! ...

In the past I've been pretty negative about Google's query revisions - especially those of the "user intention" type. My attitude has been "show me what I searched for, not what you THINK I want". Time for me to eat a little bit of crow. ...

Microsoft updates privacy policy and makes Google look out-of-touch. ...

"Perhaps what is the top global news online site is looking to charge for access." ...

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"You have to include the subdomain now." ...

"WebmasterWorld members help to identify unusual patterns of activity over stolen credit cards." ...

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"It didn't take long for scams to appear taking advantage of the generosity of people when the Haiti earthquake appeal gets underway." ...

It appears that the initial attack vector on Google (and 20+ other companies!) was probably a malicious PDF document. ...

Google No Longer Willing to Censor Results in China ...

"Google doesn't test Android Software Apps for malware or security issues. Report of an online banking phish causes Google to pull 50 apps from their Android marketplace." ...

"...new Google Nexus One phone ads, totally off topic for the site, on my sites and others.... I was actually adding "google.com" into my competitive ad filter." ...

"After careful consideration, we have decided to enter into a strategic partnership with PriceGrabber to power the Product Submit functionality of Yahoo! Shopping as of March 11, 2010." ...

A recent court ruling in France required Google to remove the French word for "scam" or "swindle" from the Google Suggestions for a certain company. ...

Reuters: "...Google Inc is becoming a "giant monopoly" like Microsoft and could face legal action if it does not become more transparent, Germany's justice minister said." ...

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the issues and challenges of running real-time credit card processing." ...

Everyone will pay the same prices for Office 2010 with no reward for customer loyalty. ...

An announcement in December to crack down on improper registrations of .CN domains has now led to a halting of sales of the ccTLD outside China. ...

"To enter "GodMode," one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following...Once that is done, the folder's icon will change to resemble a control panel and will contain dozens of control options." ...

"The announcement of the acquisition might come as soon as tomorrow, upping the ante in the mobile advertising business significantly." ...

"To try and wean users away from older, 'good-enough' releases, Microsoft is introducing a new licensing promotion." ...

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"...Google left a lot of collateral damage. A lot of folks, from tiny startups with high-fallutin' dreams to established industries, have found themselves in the path of the search behemoth." ...

"For those followers of the green fairy dust..." ...

"Instead of having a need for information and going to a Search Engine to find a website that provides that information (and maybe browsing the website while there), could it be that more and more people rely on their social networks to point them to web resources?" ...

Can a family member open an account? ...

"What concerned me at the time was my site's traffic statistics are way off. Like it showed 16% of my unique visitors! Thinking perhaps it had to be active for a few weeks, I went ahead anyway. I checked back, and the information is still wrong..." ...

"Google's purchase of mobile advertising provider AdMob for $750 million has drawn closer regulatory scrutiny as U.S. antitrust officials have asked Google for more information on the deal.." ...

"Are personalised search results now serving non-relevant or garbage widget ads on my pages that I cannot see? ...

"I just got a call from a guy who had driven three hours to come to my shop and did not realize from looking at my site that it is online and mailorder only." ...

"... Christmas orders. What I didn't count on was one mail facility--the one almost all of my orders go through--screwing up thousands of packages." ...

"One of my biggest competitors cloned my index page ... Now his Dupe site CLONE1 has taken my previous SERP position for main keywords..." ...

"They basically grabbed the ten best ranked sites and are spamming our homepage links to hundreds of blogs and guestbooks. It's not just our site but legit competitors with great content infront of us as well." ...

"I somehow get a cheap feeling with one pager sites, where they push you for sales... I know it works for sales but still I am not comfortable doing this with my own brand." ...

"Does this mean that we've now handed the majority of our state governments' operational data to a single privately-controlled company which has well-publicized partnerships with other governments such as China?" ...

The need for speed, "There's a ton of new awesome in this build." ...

"I wanted a user generated content model for one of my sites. Basically a "ask an expert" where visitors ask questions which are then answered by other visitors. Not only does this generate UGC, but it also does some really *nice* ugc - titles of posts like 'how do I...' ...

"We are not adding ads. We are not taking advantage of the new stuff google is offering. We just delete ads as they drop in QS. ...

"I just don't understand why there is so little interest in mobile web site development. Any idea why?" ...

This appears to be the first time in history that two major search engines have paid for the right to index a website. ...

"The records from this first session make it clear that those very issues webmasters have been concerned about are now on the table - including informed opt-in decisions for the end user." ...

"A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by digitising books and putting extracts online..." ...

"Members discuss advanced methods of speeding up site performance such as efficient software, hardware strategies, and database optimization." (subscription required) ...

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"When I look at some of the changes made at Google I wonder if they've changed their mentality from 'market leader', 'standard setter everyone wants to follow', 'simple and friendly' to 'what are we going to do to continue holding our visitors, revenue and market share'?" ...

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"A bug in Google Toolbar has resulted in the search giant receiving information about users' Web surfing in violation of the product's privacy policy, according to an anti-spyware and privacy researcher." ...

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Baidu announced on Wednesday that it is creating an independent company to offer premium online videos to Chinese Internet users. ...

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