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| 1: |  Bing Update Is Analytics Referral Segmentation IssueAt first it seemed as if it was a Bing update, based upon analytics showing traffic up. | Bing Search Engine News | July 20, 2015 | ||
| 2: | "Extremely Critical " Secunia Security Advisory for Windows XP "A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system." | Microsoft Windows OS (XP/NT/Vista/Windows 7/8/10) | Dec 29, 2005 | ||
| 3: | "Google For Advertisers" Information Site | Google Ads (Was AdWords) | May 1, 2009 | ||
| 4: | "Google Suggest" Becomes Default Search Box Behavior Google Suggest is now rolling out as the default behavior for all searches on the main Google Search pages. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Aug 26, 2008 | ||
| 5: | "Google does not vet Android applications" "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." | Smartphone, Wireless, and Mobile Technologies | Jan 12, 2010 | ||
| 6: | "Google" Comes in 2nd as Word of the Year "The American Dialect Society voted Google (as a verb) the #2 word for 2002." | Google News Archive | Jan 21, 2003 | ||
| 7: | "Help Improve Search for Everyone" - New Google SERPs Message "I was searching around the other night and was suddenly startled to receive a message at the top of the Google results, to the effect of "Help improve search for everyone." It went on to request that I suggest a URL for the site I was searching for information about and had a form for that purpose." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Sept 13, 2007 | ||
| 8: | "ICANN Conference Bears Much Fruit" "ICANN officials ended a week-long marathon of meetings in Brazil on Dec. 8 that produced a number of results, including ICANN's first ever Regional At Large Organization, the approval of the three registry agreements and the birth of the dot-asia top level domain." | Domain Names | Dec 12, 2006 | ||
| 9: | "IE7 Is Coming This Month" Microsoft says: "IE7 Is Coming This Month. The final release...will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it's available for download." | HTML | Oct 9, 2006 | ||
| 10: | "Inside the Black Box" - Google "He then unveiled his team's solution: a mathematical model that tries to determine when users want new information and when they don't. (And yes, like all Google initiatives, it had a name: QDF, for "query deserves freshness.")" | Google SEO News and Discussion | June 4, 2007 | ||
| 11: | "Instant Buy" Increases Conversion by 430%. In depth real-world article by ecommerce pro. "last month I cashed in some sweat and built the Instant Purchase feature. The MOMENT the new feature went live, sales increased by 430%. It happened immediately." | WebmasterWorld Supporters | Mar 11, 2010 | ||
| 12: | "Local PC File Search" to Challenge Puffin Microsoft challenges Google again and intros new hard drive search. | Bing Search Engine News | July 30, 2004 | ||
| 13: | "Made for AdSense" Sites | Google AdSense | July 30, 2004 | ||
| 14: | "Mini" Sitelinks on Google SERPS Something new is being spotted on google.co.uk. These mini-sitelinks appear as a three or four links in one horizontal line, just above the green URL -- and this is most surpising, they are not limited to the listing in position #1 | Google SEO News and Discussion | Mar 6, 2009 | ||
| 15: | "Recruitment" Trojan Targets Company Chiefs "C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as recruitment letters." | Webmaster General | Sept 26, 2007 | ||
| 16: | "Search Harder" Returns to Google Serps "We interpreted your query more broadly and found new results. These new results are marked with [New]" | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 19, 2005 | ||
| 17: | "Spam is an Arms Race" "Online search is not a "solved problem", a senior executive for net giant Google has told BBC News. "Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do," said Douglas Merrill, who looks after internal engineering. " | Google SEO News and Discussion | July 3, 2006 | ||
| 18: | "Web Application Exploits and Defenses" - Jarlsberg from Google Code First they teach you how hacking works. Then you get permission to use those attacks (and ONLY those attacks) against "Jarlsberg" - a cheesy web application that was intentionally built with a number of vulnerabilities. | HTML | May 5, 2010 | ||
| 19: | $100 Dollars a Day or It is All Over Dude "I will be forced to make one of two decisions... 1. Move back in with parents 2. Get a job at burger king" | Affiliates | Mar 6, 2008 | ||
| 20: | $100 Laptop (OLPC) Gets Windows XP or Linux | Microsoft Windows OS (XP/NT/Vista/Windows 7/8/10) | May 17, 2008 | ||
| 21: | $15 Billion Amended Class Action Suit Against Facebook Over User Tracking It accuses Facebook of improperly tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts. | Facebook Marketing Forum | May 18, 2012 | ||
| 22: | $1Million Click Fraud Lawsuit for Yahoo "An Internet retailer that used a pay-per-click advertising service operated by Yahoo is suing the Internet giant for more than $1 million, claiming it was overcharged by thousands of dollars as a result of click fraud that Yahoo did little to prevent." | Yahoo Corporate | Apr 16, 2008 | ||
| 23: | $2.65 billion Time Warner accounting settlement OK'd by Judge "A federal judge has approved a settlement that calls for Time Warner, the world's largest media company, to pay $2.65 billion to settle charges that AOL overstated its revenue to gain approval for the companies' megamerger." | Webmaster General | Apr 11, 2006 | ||
| 24: | $200m Raised in New Finance for Twitter "Twitter is also adding two new board members, including David Rosenblatt, boss of digital advertising group DoubleClick." | Dec 16, 2010 | |||
| 25: | $25 Million Lawsuit Claims Google Stole Earth Sky Layer Idea "Jonathan Cobb claims in his suit that he disclosed the idea for a Google Sky idea in internal e-mail discussion groups when he worked at Google as a contractor beginning in 2006." | Google, Alphabet Inc., Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Feb 18, 2008 | ||
| 26: | "Bing It On" Blind Comparison Test Bing launches 'Bing It On" blind comparison test. | Bing Search Engine News | Sept 6, 2012 | ||
| 27: | "Follower Factory" Exposed and Under Investigation An in-depth investigation by the New York Times into buying followers has uncovered a large business and a an extensive list of "clients" paying to add followers to boost their profiles. | Jan 29, 2018 | |||
| 28: | "Freak" Security Flaw Could Impact Apple and Google Users More than one third of encrypted Web sites - including those bearing the "lock" icon that signifies a connection secured by SSL technology - proved vulnerable to attack... | Webmaster General | Mar 4, 2015 | ||
| 29: | "In The Plex" - Getting a Clearer Picture of What Google IS If anyone wants to sail, then they need a real appreciation for the ocean. If they want to go backpacking, they need knowledge of the woods and terrain, and the more accurate the better.[br][br]We want to use Google organic search results as one way to market our web businesses, and yet we often have a very unrealistic idea of what, exactly, Google is. And when we operate under false assumptions, sooner or later we can get crushed.[br][br]For this reason I work very hard to build a realistic model of what Google is as a business - and what they are not. No kool-aid for me, but no knee-jerk negativity either. Both are distortions and will lead use astray. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Aug 9, 2011 | ||
| 30: | "Stack Clash" Privilege Escalation Bug in Unix Operating Systems Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD are all vulnerable. | Linux, Unix, and *nix like Operating Systems | June 21, 2017 | ||
| 31: | 'Experts' Claiming to Have Beaten the 'Google Sandbox' "Every now and then I come across a post from a person who claims that all their websites rank in the top 10 within the first month of going online, the sanbox doesnt exist, etc, etc... Has anyone ever created a site that did not experience the Sandbox effect at all? If so, what did you do different?" | WebmasterWorld Supporters | Nov 23, 2005 | ||
| 32: | 'Flash Cookies' Anti Hacking Lawsuit Is Thrown Out, But Questions Remain Over Deceptive Tactics The judge threw out the anti-hacking claim entirely, saying that Bose didn't suffer any real damage to her computer because of Flash cookies. The claim over deceptive business acts was left in against interclick but thrown out against the corporations that did business with it; the tresspass claim against interclick was left in. | Website Analytics - Tracking and Logging | Aug 19, 2011 | ||
| 33: | 'Flick-to-Click' Shopping Drive Online Sales "Survey: 80 per cent found the product they wanted in a printed catalogue and then went online to place their order." | Ecommerce | Aug 17, 2007 | ||
| 34: | 'Free Public WiFi', The Zombie Network "...when a user selects it, he or she isn't connecting to a router or hot spot, but rather directly to someone else's computer in the area." | Webmaster General | Oct 12, 2010 | ||
| 35: | 'Google Certified Domain Change' - just an idea "Proposal: To create some kind of 'certified domain change' service. Companies who really must rebrand, or who purchase a more desirable domain name for some other reason, have some recourse with Google other than getting buried in the SERPs and taking a financial hit." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Apr 25, 2006 | ||
| 36: | 'Hacker Safe' Site Hacked! "A Web site that still displays a banner from McAfee's ScanAlert certifying that it is "Hacker Safe," on Friday sent a letter to customers saying that it was hacked last month." | Webmaster General | Jan 8, 2008 | ||
| 37: | 'Microsoft's After Google's Ad Business' "Microsoft may be older and bigger than Google, but it's Microsoft nipping at Google's heels and not the other way around, according to two Gartner analysts who closely follow the moves of the companies." | Foo | Apr 26, 2007 | ||
| 38: | 'Net Neutrality' Amendment Rejected "A proposal to prevent Internet service providers from charging Web firms more for faster service to consumers failed yesterday to clear a Senate committee." | Webmaster General | June 29, 2006 | ||
| 39: | 'So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits': Google's Non-search Products "Rivals get the jitters when Google's nonsearch products grab headlines. But a close look shows that so far, there's not a market leader among them." | Google, Alphabet Inc., Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | June 30, 2006 | ||
| 40: | 'Speed of Site' May Become Ranking Factor in 2010 "For my entire online career I've felt that page speed is an important and almost secret weapon. Now it's becoming an open secret, apparently. I'll bet lots of people will still ignore it." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Nov 18, 2009 | ||
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