January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
Norton Internet Security 2009 is the latest offering from the all-time favourite security solution provider. It helps keep you computer clean of malicious codes. Norton Internet Security detects, blocks or removes spyware, virus, and adware. The fire
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Use Caution When Growing Your Site; 50 Most Memorable Moments in Search for 2008; Online Holiday Shopping Down 3% Overall for 2008; and more.
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
hakia has updated their Search Box, which is a site search feature you can place on your website. The biggest change is the ability to search multiple domains. Here’s a mockup, via the hakia blog:
Another update is the highlighting of the semantic relevant words in the results:
Search box is available for free, up to 30,000 searches per day.
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: There’s No Shortcut to Good SEO…Or Is There?; E-mail Marketing Tips for Small Business; Yahoo Gives Itself Permission to Change Your Search Marketing Campaigns; and more.
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Search Ad Quality Score 101; What Makes a Successful Online Promotion?; 5 Web Resources to Find a Job in Search; and more.
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
Hackers usually are smart, but can be really, really stupid. The person who hacked Twitter - not the Direct Message phishing expedition that started over the weekend - could have picked pretty much anyone else on the planet and be less concerned of being tracked down.
This person hacked President-elect Obama’s Twitter account! There has to be Secret Service people - like the Diane Laine character in Untraceable - crawling through the internet tracking him/her down. That is if the person has not been quietly killed already (for my conspiracy theorist readers).
Barack’s account was one of 33 hacked, according to the Twitter blog.
“This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been “hacked” including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama (who has not been Twittering since becoming the president elect due to transition issues). We immediately locked down the accounts and investigated the issue. Rick, Barack, and others are now back in control of their accounts,” the site stated.
If the Secret Service kill the person during the arrest, I have a nomination for the Darwin Awards.
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
In China, search engines are responsible for the content to which they provide links. This means anytime the Chinese government decides that a certain type of content isn’t worthy of its people, they can tell search engines not to list them. In today’s Searching for Meaning column, “Forget Tibet; Free the Content,” Kevin Ryan discusses the Chinese government’s ongoing efforts to censor the Internet.
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
Bloomberg is reporting that China plans to crack down on search engines, among other sites they deem harmful. This certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
The reason this time is concerns over pornography. Of course, search engines don’t host pornography on their sites, they simply provide links to searchers. If China feels it has a pornography problem, the origination of that problem begins with the searcher, not the engine.
Web sites and search engines that ignore their new found regulations will face penalties and possible closure.
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
Execs from Google and Microsoft are ponying up big time for President-elect Barack Obama’s big day. On January 20, the former junior Senator from Illinois will become the 44th President of the United States.
Who from search is giving big for the shindig?
From Google:
From Microsoft:
So far from Yahoo, one lone donation, from an attorney:
For a full list of donors, click here.
via SFGate
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January 7th, 2009 at 04:41am Under Uncategorized
A new blog started up before Christmas, Infrastructure 2.0 by the folks from Infoblox. Their premise is fairly simple yet compelling. IP Networks of all scopes are becoming too large for the manual labor that administers them, the old way of doing
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