| May 9 | New Net Neutrality Bill Introduced Posted in Foo by engine
"Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust violations if they block or slow Internet traffic." |
| May 9 | Facebook Agrees to Create Tools to Protect Young Users Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
"The social network Facebook has reached an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to institute a broad set of principles intended to protect young users from online predators and inappropriate material." |
| May 9 | Landing Page Load Time Will Be Counted In Quality Score Posted in Google AdWords by AdWordsAdvisor
"Starting today, load time evaluations will be displayed on the Keyword Analysis page, for your review. We suggest taking some time to evaluate and understand this information because, starting mid-June, landing page load time will be incorporated into your Quality Score." |
| May 8 | Yahoo Glue Pages (Beta) Released in India Posted in Yahoo Search Engine and Directory by engine
"The Glue Pages Beta currently works for select search terms across select categories such as health, sports, entertainment, travel, technology, and finance." |
| May 8 | Hacked Blog and Hidden Links - warning email sent by Google Posted in Google Search News by workingNOMAD
"Got an email from Google that they have detected hidden links and have removed the site for 30 days and that I should file a reinclusion request." |
| May 8 | Opera Dragonfly - web developer tools now available (alpha) Posted in Opera Browser Usage and Support by RonPK
Opera hasn't had real developer tools for far too long, but the wait is soon over. An alpha release is now available. |
| May 8 | User Account Control in Windows Vista Posted in Microsoft Windows OS Usage - NT - XP - Vista by JDTurner
"Without UAC, if you log on as an administrator, all programs that you start will have administrator rights. For instance, your browser would have the authority, to stomp all over your program files, rewrite the registry and generally cause mayhem. But it's only a browser so why would you want to give it so much power?" |
| May 8 | AdSense Stats Delay Posted in Google AdSense by indias_next_no1
"According to Google, the delay is fixed, but not everyone is seeing it quite yet." |
| May 8 | E.U. Says, Travel Sites To Clean Up Their Act, or Face Legislation Posted in Ecommerce by engine
|
| May 8 | FireFox Add-ons Infecting Users with Trojans Posted in Firefox Browser Usage and Support by Marcia
"Mozilla, the maker of the open source Firefox browser, is redoubling its efforts to check user created add-ons for viruses and Trojans after it discovered that a language pack on its official add-on page had been infected for months with rogue code," |
| May 8 | TorrentSpy Parent, Valence Media, Hit By $110Million Fine Posted in Content, Writing and Copyright by engine
"In a four-page final ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper entered the multimillion-dollar judgment against TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media for wilfully inducing, contributing and vicariously allowing copyright infringement on its Web site." |
| May 8 | Google Invests With Partners in $3.2B Wireless Broadband Company Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company." |
| May 8 | OpenOffice 3.0 (beta) Released Posted in Website Technology Issues by engine
|
| May 8 | First it was Position 6 - Now Position 4 Gets Strange Posted in Google Search News by internetheaven
The result in position 4 has been rotating between three different firms all day for our industry's top value keyphrase. All other listings above and below remain constant. |
| May 7 | Finding Good Keywords Without Online Tools Posted in Keyword Discussion by Receptional_Andy
"For all the luddites and technophobes out there who (inexplicably) still want to do keyword research, don't despair! You don't even need a spreadsheet." |
| May 7 | Bill Gates Says, Microsoft "focused on its independent strategy" Posted in Microsoft Corporate by engine
"Those comments seemed to set a different tone than on Tuesday in South Korea, where he said the company wasn't ruling out alternative partnerships after the failure to buy Yahoo." |
| May 7 | Google AdSense: "You're Fired," Emails Posted in Google AdSense by soona99
"There's great discussion amongst WebmasterWorld members receiving the dreaded (by some) "business model" e-mails." |
| May 6 | Yahoo SearchScan released Posted in Yahoo Search Engine and Directory by Receptional_Andy
|
| May 6 | Free Dynamic DNS Services Pose Massive Security Threats Posted in Webmaster General by incrediBILL
|
| May 4 | Microsoft walks away from Yahoo deal Posted in Microsoft Corporate by tntpower
|
| May 3 | The Bug Crawling In My Screen! Posted in Foo by vatel
|
| May 2 | Cloaking Flash-based Sites, Revisited Posted in Cloaking by incrediBILL
"Here's the real problem with that line of Flash/HTML cloaking philosophy..." |
| May 2 | Google AdSense: What Qualifies an Advertiser for the Filter? Posted in Google AdSense by martinibuster
"I'm wondering what publishers feel are the hallmarks of an advertiser that is made for the AdSense filter?" |
| May 2 | Three Way Triangular Link Exchanges Posted in Link Development by Creekscout
"WebmasterWorld members discuss the merits, or otherwise, of three way and multi-way link exchanges." |
| May 1 | Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by ebound
"In an interesting interview, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt talks about Microsoft-Yahoo proposals, social networking, markets, and Google technology." |
| May 1 | Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 3 Posted in Microsoft Windows OS Usage - NT - XP - Vista by bill
Microsoft is delaying the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP users due to a "compatibility issue" |
| May 1 | Google TV Ads Now Available to US Advertisers Posted in Google AdWords by engine
"Google TV Ads, a flexible, all-digital system for easily and efficiently buying more accountable and measurable TV advertising. The program, which has been an invitation-only beta test since June 2007, is now available to all US-based advertisers." |
| May 1 | Googlebot Crawling Down During April Posted in Google Search News by deadsea
"WebmasterWorld members were reporting Googlebot crawling activity was down for some times in April." |
| May 1 | Massive Botnet Spamming Infestation Thwarts Standard Detection Posted in Webmaster General by incrediBILL
"There appears to be a botnet called Kraken infesting many machines, primarily home broadband users, on possibly an unprecedented scale with estimates ranging from 165K to 600K infected machines." |
| April 30 | DoubleClick Mobile Integrates With Mobile Ad Networks Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"DoubleClick Mobile, the company's advertising delivery system for mobile devices, is integrating with mobile ad networks including AdMob, Google's AdSense for mobile content, and Millennial Media's premium MBrand network as well as its Decktrade performance network." |
| April 30 | How Often Should a Web Site be Redesigned? Posted in Site Graphics and Multimedia Design by pageoneresults
"How often should we redesign and/or upgrade our websites look and feel, functionality, usability, etc?" |
| April 30 | China Closes More Than 4300 Open Email Relays Posted in Asia and Pacific Region by bill
"Huang Chengqing, secretary general of the Internet Society of China, has disclosed that ISC has closed down the open email proxies and relays of more than 4300 email service providers." |
| April 30 | Ajax And Javascript For SEO, Now That Googlebot Understands Javascript Posted in JavaScript and AJAX by heringslake
"Well this is a common misconception, many people who do SEO professionally actually still think that google doesn't understand javascript." |
| April 29 | Yahoo Outsources IM Calls To JaJah Posted in Yahoo Corporate by engine
"Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care, the startup said Tuesday." |
| April 29 | No New IIS Or Microsoft SQL Server Vulnerabilities, Despite Claims Posted in Microsoft IIS Web Server and ASP.NET by engine
"Microsoft has denied any blame for a rash of web server attacks that have affected half a million web pages." |
More news on WebmasterWorld News Tracker Page Two.
Also visit the WebmasterWorld library
for older articles.
|
