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| 1161: |  Coreflood Botnet Shut Down"This was big money stolen on a large scale by foreign criminals. The FBI wanted to stop it and they did an incredibly good job at it," said Alan Paller, director of research at the SAN Institute, a nonprofit group that helps fight cyber crime.[br][br]The vast majority of the infected machines were in the United States, but the criminal gang was likely overseas. | Webmaster General | Apr 14, 2011 | ||
| 1162: | Microsoft Patch, April, Is a Big One! There are nine security bulletins rated as Critical, while the remainder are considered Important. The patches and updates span all versions of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, and the .NET Framework. | Microsoft Corporate | Apr 13, 2011 | ||
| 1163: | PANDA International - Data on Winners & Losers from SearchMetrics This afternoon the SearchMetrics blog released their data for the international wave of the Panda Update - affecting English Language search. The article includes data for 100 losers and 20 winners.[br][br]"The data was collated between the 5th & 12th of April 2011 and we can definitely confirm that the update has hit the UK – in a big way. Surprising is that ehow.co.uk and ehow.com has lost more than 50% in visibility." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 13, 2011 | ||
| 1164: | Google Hotpot Moving to Places Rolling Hotpot into Google Places helps simplify the connection between the places that are rated and reviewed and the more than 50 million places that already have an online presence through Google Places... | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Apr 12, 2011 | ||
| 1165: | Facebook and Baidu To Team Up Over Social Network In China Facebook has struck a deal with Baidu, the biggest Chinese search engine, to open a jointly-owned socialnetwork in China, according to reports in the Chinese press, citing inside sources. | Asia and Pacific Region | Apr 12, 2011 | ||
| 1166: | HitWise: Bing Busts Through 30% - Takes Share from Google "Bing-powered search in the United States just broke the 30% barrier, clocking in at 30.01% in March according to Hitwise. That was a rise from its February tally of 28.48%. [br][br]Google in the same time period dropped from 66.69% to 64.42%, ceding that ground to Bing. [br][br]Both Yahoo search, which Bing powers, and core Bing.com searches rose during the month. Market share for Bing.com rose from 13.49% to 14.32%, and Yahoo powered searches rose from 14.99% to 15.69% of the market." [br] | Bing Search Engine News | Apr 12, 2011 | ||
| 1167: | Google PANDA rolls out WorldWide Today, for the first time, after checking daily, I can now see US Panda results on Google properties worldwide including but not limited to: .co.uk, .ca, .co.in, .com.au, .fr, .de, .se, etc. [br][br]Congratulations, it's no longer speculation if you have Panda, it's quite visibly there. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 11, 2011 | ||
| 1168: | Getting A Successful Start With Social Media Marketing WebmasterWorld Supporters discuss the issues, pitfalls, and the benefits of getting involved in social media marketing activity. (-subscription required) | WebmasterWorld Supporters | Apr 11, 2011 | ||
| 1169: | In Google's Penalty Box, Overstock Takes a 5% Hit on Revenue Six weeks after getting penalized by Google Inc. for using promotional links with university web sites that boosted its natural search rankings, Overstock.com Inc. says the penalty, a drop in its Google natural search rankings, has resulted in a 5% drop in revenue, according to the retailer's filing toay with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [br][br]"We now estimate that it will be at least another two to three weeks before Google will end the penalty period," Overstock says in the filing. "During the penalty period to date, we have experienced an approximately 5% negative impact on our revenue, which we anticipate will continue during the penalty period." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 9, 2011 | ||
| 1170: | New Techniques Can Track Net Location Within 690 Metres The new method zooms in through three stages to locate a target computer. | Webmaster General | Apr 9, 2011 | ||
| 1171: | YouTube Announces Live Streaming Trial Roll Out Today we're announcing the initial roll out of YouTube Live, which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform for the first time. This begins with a new YouTube Live browse page, where you can always find the most compelling live events happening on YouTube and add events to your calendar.[br][br]Today, we'll also start gradually rolling out our live streaming beta platform, which will allow certain YouTube partners with accounts in good standing to stream live content on YouTube. The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability to live stream from their channels in the months ahead. In order to ensure a great live stream viewing experience, we'll roll this offering out incrementally over time. | Web Video Creation and Optimization | Apr 8, 2011 | ||
| 1172: | Google CEO, Larry Page, Completes Reorganization Of Management Team He said that when Google announced Page would become CEO, the company was clear his top priority would be to create clear lines of accountability and responsibility across Google. After carefully examining how things were done at Google, Page decided to make management changes to streamline the product and engineering structures with essentially one lead managing each functional group, he said. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Apr 8, 2011 | ||
| 1173: | Microsoft Creates Bing Search App For iPad Users Called "Bing for iPad" and available for download Thursday, the application has been custom-designed for the Apple tablet's sharp and touch-sensitive display. It also has a feature that Bing offers only via this iPad application, called Trends, which displays popular searches of the past week. | Bing Search Engine News | Apr 8, 2011 | ||
| 1174: | Becoming Search Engine Algo-Proof Every two years Google throws in a big change to their algo. They pick the latest thing they don't like and blow the crap out of a bunch of sites. Lots of people get hit.[br][br]This process scares the bejeepers out of me. In fact, I lived in fear of the algo for years to the point I wouldn't even meddle in anything less than pure.[br][br]I've attempted to make my main site resistant to algo changes. Initially this started out by being whitehat, that's no longer the case. I'm not blackhat, I simply do what works now, and what I expect to work in the future. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 7, 2011 | ||
| 1175: | Google's YouTube To Get 'Channels' In a Bid To Compete on Net TVs The site is planning a series of changes to its home page to highlight sets of "channels" around topics such as arts and sports. About 20 or so of those channels will feature several hours of professionally produced original programming a week, some of these people said. Additional channels would be assembled from content already on the site. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Apr 7, 2011 | ||
| 1176: | Ten Things We Can Learn About Google SEO - From Angry Birds I just read an article by Daniel Rasmus on Macworld called 10 things that CIOs can learn from Angry Birds, and it struck me that even though most of us don't really think of our job as being a CIO, the article's ten points were excellent about achieving success with Google. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 6, 2011 | ||
| 1177: | Google Loses Italian Autocomplete Defamation Case "On Tuesday, lead counsel Carlo Piana wrote on his blog that the Court of Milan has upheld its earlier decision to order Google to filter out libellous search suggestions. These are the suggestions that pop up in Google's search input bar, proposing what the user might be wanting to search for. [br][br]People searching via Google for Piana's client, who remains publicly unnamed, were apparently presented with autocomplete suggestions including truffatore ("con man") and truffa ("fraud").[br][br]Google lost its bid to claim the protection of the E-Commerce Directive's safe harbour provisions, which partly shields hosting and ISPs from liability for content held on or transmitted over their systems. However, the court viewed the autocomplete suggestions as being produced by Google itself." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Apr 5, 2011 | ||
| 1178: | Google Starts Phone Support For AdWords Advertisers In U.S. and Canada Currently we offer email and online support, and today we're introducing free phone support for all of our U.S.- and Canada-based AdWords customers.[br][br]To speak to one of our specialists, give us a call at 1-866-2Google between Monday-Friday, 9am-8pm Eastern Time. This number is for current AdWords advertisers only, so please make sure you have your customer ID ready. | Google AdWords | Apr 5, 2011 | ||
| 1179: | Bing's Stefan Weitz on The Future Of Search Bing director Stefan Weitz, who is shaping Microsoft's search engine as it goes head to head with Google's, predicts search will disappear in the next few years.[br][br]Search engines will not cease to exist, but their tasks will become less and less visible and more and more intuitive, Weitz said. | Bing Search Engine News | Apr 5, 2011 | ||
| 1180: | More Retailers Warning of Security Breach Best Buy Co., TiVo Inc., and Walgreen Co. are the latest in a seemingly endless string of companies to warn over the weekend that hackers gained access to customers' files, including email addresses.[br][br]The companies all use the same marketing and communications vendor, Epsilon.[br][br]It's a leading marketing services firm that sends more than 40 billion emails annually and has more than 2,500 clients including seven of the Fortune 10.[br][br]Epsilon, based in Dallas, issued a brief statement on Friday saying "a full investigation was under way" following the discovery of the breach of some customer client data. The company said that information obtained was limited to names and email addresses and that "no other personal identifiable information associated with the names was at risk." | Ecommerce | Apr 4, 2011 | ||
| 1181: | Google Updates and SERP Changes - April 2011 WebmasterWorld's monthly SERP monitoring and update thread for April 2011. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 3, 2011 | ||
| 1182: | Google Introduces Gmail Motion Gmail Motion uses your computer's built-in webcam and Google's patented spatial tracking technology to detect your movements and translate them into meaningful characters and commands. Movements are designed to be simple and intuitive for people of all skill levels. ;) | Foo | Apr 1, 2011 | ||
| 1183: | AllTheWeb.com To Close April 4, 2011 Yahoo! will be closing AlltheWeb on April 4, 2011, as we focus on other features to improve your search experience. Starting on April 4, 2011, www.alltheweb.com will redirect to Yahoo! Search at search.yahoo.com. Thanks for your understanding. | Alternative Search Engines | Mar 31, 2011 | ||
| 1184: | Baidu Deletes Almost 2.8 Million Files Of Online Works Over Copyright Chinese search engine Baidu has deleted 2.8m works from its online library, Baidu Wenku, in an attempt to settle a copyright dispute with writers.[br][br]"By Tuesday afternoon we had removed almost 2.8 million files, mainly from the Literary Works section of the site, which was the primary concern of the writers and publishers," | Asia and Pacific Region | Mar 31, 2011 | ||
| 1185: | Microsoft Files Complaint With EU Commission Over Google's Dominance As troubling as the situation is in United States, it is worse in Europe. That is why our filing today focuses on a pattern of actions that Google has taken to entrench its dominance in the markets for online search and search advertising to the detriment of European consumers.[br][br]How does it do this? Google has built its business on indexing and displaying snippets of other organizations' Web content. It understands as well as anyone that search engines depend upon the openness of the Web in order to function properly, and it's quick to complain when others undermine this. Unfortunately, Google has engaged in a broadening pattern of walling off access to content and data that competitors need to provide search results to consumers and to attract advertisers. | Microsoft Corporate | Mar 31, 2011 | ||
| 1186: | Google Rolls Out the +1 Button - parallels the Facebook "Like" Today Google began rolling out their next foray into social recommendations. Google calls it +1, as they explain "the digital shorthand for "this is pretty cool.'"[br][br]To recommend something, you click the +1 button on an organic result or ad you find useful. These +1's will then start appearing in Google search results for others in your social network when they are signed in. Future plans include +1 buttons for websites, too. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Mar 30, 2011 | ||
| 1187: | Google Will Get Independent Audits Over Buzz Privacy Google will be subjected to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years over charges that it "violated its own privacy promises".[br][br]"Google Buzz fell short of our usual standards," Google said in a blog post. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Mar 30, 2011 | ||
| 1188: | Salesforce Acquires Radian6 for $326 Million Salesforce.com on Wednesday said it acquired Radian6, a social media monitoring service, for $326 million in cash and stock.[br][br]The deal, which is expected to close in the quarter ending July 31, gives Salesforce technology to monitor, track and analyze social media across properties like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, youTube and other sites. | Webmaster General | Mar 30, 2011 | ||
| 1189: | How Should I Link Build Now? There seems to be a great deal of chatter about the devaluing of links on your basic syndication channels (article networks) after the Panda Update.[br][br]WebmasterWorld Members discuss ideas on how to build links that would stand the test of time. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Mar 29, 2011 | ||
| 1190: | eBay To Acquire GSI Commerce for $2.4 Billion eBay announced Monday that it will acquire GSI Commerce, an e-commerce marketing services company, for $29.25 a share--which will likely come out to be around $2.4 billion. | Ecommerce | Mar 28, 2011 | ||
| 1191: | How To 301 Over 50,000 Pages WebmasterWorld Members review the challenge of creating a 301 for over 50,000 pages. | Apache Web Server | Mar 28, 2011 | ||
| 1192: | European Lawsuit May Have Ramifications For Trademark Keywords Nevertheless, if the court goes along with the advocate general's opinion, something it generally does, the decision could have financial ramifications for Google if advertisers have less latitude to buy rivals' brand names as keywords for so-called sponsored links, analysts said. | Google AdWords | Mar 25, 2011 | ||
| 1193: | Improving Website Performance I'm running a Joomla! website and I'm experiencing some performance issues.[br][br]I ran into this problem a while ago and after extensive testing the host figured out it was an issue with the hard-drive combined with a CPU that couldn't cope and to low memory. So they gave me a new server with a new hard-drive, twice the CPU power and twice the memory. It's a VDS in a cluster setup, so it should be able to "run" my website.[br][br]My website performed OK then, not great but it's a "big" site, sort off... 6 languages/different front-pages, around 3500 pages. So I figured it was as good as it was going to get back then.[br][br]Fast forward a year and my website is slow again. And by slow I mean, if I use host-tracker.com to check the average load times. I get an average load time of around 4 seconds....[br][br]What I did so far: | Apache Web Server | Mar 25, 2011 | ||
| 1194: | New, Improved Location Targeting On Google AdWords ...you can choose to target or exclude your ads based on the user's physical location or the location of interest (for example, the location-specific terms in their search queries). By physical location, we mean the place where the user is actually located, such as 'New York City,' instead of the location that's included in the search query, such as 'restaurants in New York'. In addition, we've modified the default setting for locations that you don't want to reach and made it more in line with your requests. | Google AdWords | Mar 24, 2011 | ||
| 1195: | Bing Improves Its Mobile Browse Experience ...we launched updates to the Bing for Mobile browse (m.bing.com) making it easier for you to get and view information while on the go.[br][br]New features in this update include better and faster image search, real-time transit and directions, app search for the iPhone, and more.[br][br] Utilizing HTML5, the new features are offered on Smartphone browsers for the iPhone and Android.[br][br]If you have a Windows Phone 7 device, don't worry, Windows Phone 7 just announced that it will support HTML5 later this year so these updates will work great at that time. | Bing Search Engine News | Mar 23, 2011 | ||
| 1196: | The Downside to Using Noindex WebmasterWorld Members discuss the downsides of switching to using noindex. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Mar 23, 2011 | ||
| 1197: | 4 options in business As a business matures, you need to make choices; you'll likely need to choose one of these four options. Which one is appropriate for yours? | Professional Webmaster Business Issues | Mar 23, 2011 | ||
| 1198: | Yahoo Introduces Search Direct (beta) This new feature (currently in beta) taps into Yahoo!'s unique opportunity to combine content and structured data and to provide a rich search experience.[br][br]Search Direct predicts search results as fast as a person types, character by character, and presents those results dynamically, generating a fast, simple search experience that goes beyond a list of blue links.[br][br]Search Direct rolls out in a public beta to Yahoo! users across the U.S. today, and will be available in other Yahoo! products and markets later this year. | Yahoo Search Engine and Directory | Mar 23, 2011 | ||
| 1199: | Amazon Sued By Apple Over Appstore Name Amazon has begun improperly using Apple's App Store mark in connection with Amazon's mobile software developer program. | Ecommerce | Mar 22, 2011 | ||
| 1200: | Firefox 4 Launched Firefox 4 is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in more than 80 languages. | Firefox Browser Usage and Support | Mar 22, 2011 | ||
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