Germany Puts a Hold On Signing ACTA Agreement
Posted in Content, Writing and Copyright by engine
Latvia also put off signing on Friday. Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have already delayed ratification. ... read more ... |
Google Search Requiring Cookies
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by ken_b
Lately I've been unable to use Google Search without having cookies allowed. Not always, just occasionally. Today it seems to be consistent, no cookies, no clicking thru from the basic G search results page. ... read more ... |
AdSense Causing Security Warnings on IE 8
Posted in Google AdSense by names2buy
"internet explorer blocked this site from showing content with security certificate errors" ... read more ... |
Link Development: Building Links to Pages That Link Back
Posted in Link Development by graeme_p
WebmasterWorld Members discuss link development ideas. ... read more ... |
 WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup February 9
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 ... |
Google AdWords: Why Get Bid-to-Call Calls When The Ad Group is Off
Posted in Google AdWords by beren
WebmasterWorld Member reports receiving bid-to-call calls, even after the ad group is turned off. Is this some kind of bug, spam, or fraud? ... read more ... |
Report: Google Close to Launch of Cloud Storage Service
Posted in Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues by engine
Like Dropbox, Google's storage service, called Drive, is a response to the growth of Internet-connected mobile devices like smartphones and tablets and the rise of "cloud computing," or storing files online so that they can be retrieved from multiple devices, these people said. ... read more ... |
Google Screenwise Program Will Pay You To Reveal Your Surfing
Posted in Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues by engine
Participants will receive a $5 Amazon gift card code for simply installing the Screenwise browser extension. Users can earn another $5 Amazon code for every three months that they continue in the Screenwise program, totalling up to $25 total credit in Amazon codes. ... read more ... |
Google PR Update February
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by zeus
WebmasterWorld Members are reporting a Google PR Update. ... read more ... |
What To Change to be Google Panda Compliant
Posted in Google SEO by Webdoc
WebmasterWorld Members discuss tactics and techniques to employ to make a site Panda-compliant. ... read more ... |
Symantec Being Blackmailed Over Source Code
Posted in Foo by lawman
Negotiations between Symantec and the hacker reportedly broke down however, culminating with an email on Monday that threatened to release the company's source code if Symantec didn't deliver funds within 10 minutes.
Yamatough was apparently unwilling to afford the company more time, however, as a 1.2GB file titled "Symantec's pcAnywhere Leaked Source Code" was posted to the Pirate Bay Monday evening. ... read more ... |
Wolfram Alpha To Launch "Pro" Version For User Data Manipulation
Posted in Alternative Search Engines by engine
Chief executive Stephen Wolfram said it was his firm's "biggest single step" since launching the computational tool two-and-a-half years ago. ... read more ... |
Google Announces Search Changes for January 2012
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by tedster
Here's the latest installment of our monthly series on "search quality highlights," with 17 new quality improvements to read about for January. ... read more ... |
Google Updates and SERP Changes - Feb 2012
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by robdob
WebmasterWorld's monthly look at Google's SERPs changes. ... read more ... |
February 2012 AdSense Earnings and Observations
Posted in Google AdSense by ThatsBoBo
WebmasterWorld's AdSense barometer - a monthly look at Google AdSense earnings and observations. ... read more ... |
Changing Titles, The Potential Google Penalty
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by Josuah
WebmasterWorld Members discuss title changes, and the potential for a site/page penalty. ... read more ... |
E.U. Regulator Tells Google To Pause Privacy Changes
Posted in Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues by engine
In a letter to Google's chief executive Larry Page, Europe's 'Data Protection Working Party' wrote that "we call for a pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google's commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens, until we have completed our analysis". ... read more ... |
WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup February 2
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 ... |
SEC Filing: VeriSign Security Repeatedly Breached
Posted in Ecommerce by travelin_cat
The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new guidelines on reporting security breaches to investors.
In written Senate testimony on Tuesday, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the known certificate breaches of 2011 "a threat to one of the most fundamental technologies used to secure online communications and sensitive transactions, such as online banking." Others have said SSL as a whole is no longer trustworthy and effective. ... read more ... |
French Court Fines Google Maps Over Unfair Competition
Posted in Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues by engine
The French company provides the same services for a fee and claimed the Google strategy was aimed at undercutting competitors by temporarily swallowing the full cost until it gains control of the market. ... read more ... |
Facebook Files Its IPO
Posted in Facebook Marketing by travelin_cat
Facebook, the vast online social network, took its first step toward becoming a publicly traded company on Wednesday as it filed to sell shares on the stock market. ... read more ... |
Keydrive Acquires Moniker and Snapnames From Oversee
Posted in Domain Names by Webwork
Moniker once had a reputation for providing the highest level of service to many of the most successful domain portfolio holders.
What will Keydrive bring to the domain name game to regrain or restore that reputation? ... read more ... |
100 Million DotCOM Domains
Posted in Domain Names by jmccormac
The .com TLD has broken the 100 Million active .com domains barrier. ... read more ... |
 Mozilla Firefox 10 Released, With Added Developer Tools
Posted in Firefox Browser Usage and Support by engine
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. ... read more ... |
ICANN Plans To Make Verified Customer Identities Mandatory For Domain Registrations
Posted in Domain Names by tangor
The changes would not affect registrars' ability to offer Whois privacy services for an additional fee, though other amendments could formalise the process of unmasking such registrants accused of criminal behaviour or cybersquatting. And it's not certain yet that Whois verification will become mandatory. ... read more ... |
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