ICANN Reopens TLD Application System Until May 30
Posted in Domain Names by engine
During the last few weeks, we have fixed the technical glitch that caused us to take the system offline. ... read more ... |
CAPTCHA Replacement Is A Mini Game
Posted in Webmaster General by engine
"Text-based CAPTCHAs are difficult to decipher and easy to break, which forces them to become increasingly more difficult to solve," said Reid Tatoris, chief operating officer of Are You a Human.
"This vicious cycle makes it frustrating for users, who many times will give up before following through to a site." ... read more ... |
 Microsoft Launches So.cl Student Social Network
Posted in Microsoft Corporate by bill
So.cl isn't designed to be a Facebook challenger. ... read more ... |
 Report: Google's Chrome Browser Now The Web's Most Used Browser
Posted in Google Chrome Browser by engine
Measuring the Web is an imprecise science, very often based on scaling up small scale measurement surveys, but the gist of Statcounter's data over the last year indicates that Chrome use is rising of Chrome at the expense of IE and Firefox, regardless of the exact precision of the data. ... read more ... |
 Yahoo Sells 20pct of Alibaba for $7 Billion
Posted in Asia and Pacific Region by bill
Yahoo and Alibaba Group have finally reached an agreement for the Silicon Valley Internet giant to sell back half its stake in the Chinese Web company in a $7 billion deal. ... read more ... |
 $15 Billion Amended Class Action Suit Against Facebook Over User Tracking
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine
It accuses Facebook of improperly tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts. ... read more ... |
 New Tailored Suggestions, And Twitter Supporting Do Not Track
Posted in Twitter by engine
...we support Do Not Track (DNT), which is reflected in our privacy policy as one of the ways you can indicate your preference. ... read more ... |
 WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup May 17
Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters by engine
WebmasterWorld's weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) ... read more ... |
 Pinterest Gets $100m Funding From Rakuten
Posted in Pinterest by brotherhood_of_LAN
Social networking service Pinterest is to receive $100m in funding from Japanese internet retailing giant Rakuten and existing investors.
Rakuten said the money would be used to improve Pinterest's service and expand its user base. ... read more ... |
 Hitwise: Bing Now Powers Over 30% Of U.S. Searches
Posted in Bing Search Engine News by Brett_Tabke
"...now account for 30.01% of all U.S. searches. By itself, Bing grew 16% year-over-year and 5% month-over-month and now accounted for 14.32% of all U.S. searches in April 2012." ... read more ... |
 Google's Amit Singhal Introduces Knowledge Graph
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by engine
We've begun to gradually roll out this view of the Knowledge Graph to U.S. English users. ... read more ... |
Understanding Google's Panda - Thin Content vs Low Interest Content
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by getcooking
WebmasterWorld Members discuss a content theory over Google Panda. ... read more ... |
 Bing Dropping Some Pages?
Posted in Bing Search Engine News by SEOPTI
WebmasterWorld Members are reporting drops of indexed urls in Bing. ... read more ... |
Pirate Pay Torrent Disruptor Prevents Downloading of Pirated Content
Posted in Foo by engine
The tool poses as real bit torrent users but then "confuses" peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections. ... read more ... |
 Google Penguin Recovery Tips
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by bostonyear
WebmasterWorld Members discuss Google Penguin recovery tips. ... read more ... |
 Yahoo chief executive steps down
Posted in Yahoo Corporate by bill
Yahoo has said that Ross Levinsohn will temporarily replace chief executive Scott Thompson, who has stepped down in the face of controversy about his allegedly inflated CV. ... read more ... |
 Facebook Testing Pay To Promote Post
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine
"We're constantly testing new features across the site," said the spokesperson. "This particular test is simply to gauge people's interest in this method of sharing with their friends." ... read more ... |
WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup May 10
Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters by engine
WebmasterWorld's weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) ... read more ... |
Facebook To Roll Out File Sharing For Groups
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine
Users can upload most file types up to 25MB ... read more ... |
The Benefits Of In-House SEO Compared To Outsourcing
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by internetheaven
WebmasterWorld Members discuss the pros and cons of in-house SEO over outsourcing. Are the outsourced SEOs good enough? ... read more ... |
 Bing Integrates Facebook Into SERPs in a New Column
Posted in Bing Search Engine News by engine
Microsoft attempts to deeply integrate Facebook into Bing search to gain some ground on arch-rival Google. ... read more ... |
 Facebook App Center Launched
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine
All developers should create an app detail page. The page is required for being listed in the App Center, and it will also become the new destination when non-users search for your app on Facebook. ... read more ... |
Foursquare Plans Coupons For People That Check-In To Businesses
Posted in Foo by engine
"One of the most fun things about the Foursquare pitch is sitting down with merchants and you can show them a stats dashboard. It shows this is the time of day people come in, here is the breakdown of male and female, here is the list of your best customers, here are some customers that used to come here a lot and don't come anymore..." ... read more ... |
AdSense Revenue Share Earnings Changes
Posted in Google AdSense by Sgt_Kickaxe
Site publishers discuss a negative change in AdSense Earnings coinciding with changes with the AdWords program. ... read more ... |
Cleaning your Backlinks - Ideas and Suggestions
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by tedster
With all the "over-SEO" and "webspam updates" recently - and especially with the flood of WMT notifications about backlinks - a lot of webmasters have their attention on what they can do practically to make Google happier about their backlink profile. ... read more ... |
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