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News and Discussion for the Independent Web Professional
"WebmasterWorld members discuss the the impact of site video in Google SERPs, as raised in discussions at PubCon Las Vegas 2008."
"From an initial play around, it looks like it will be very useful for campaigns that potentially have lots if missed opportunities for good paid keywords..."
"Microsoft decided to switch to a free product because there are still so many PCs out there that lack any antivirus software."
Yahoo, under fierce financial pressure, has begun a search to replace company co-founder Jerry Yang as chief executive
"The earnings ceiling is a bit of speculation that has divided publishers for awhile."
"The Washington Attorney General's Office is suing a Redmond-based seller of e-commerce services whose failed promises to rev up Web traffic for small businesses drove many customers to file complaints."
"Mozilla is now planning to end Firefox 2 support in the near future, perhaps before the end of the year. This change could leave a lot of users - and not just Firefox users - in a difficult position." - LWN.net
Google has added sophisticated voice recognition technology to their search software for the Apple iPhone.
NYTimes: "The factory in Austin, Minn., has been operating two shifts a day seven days a week producing the canned lunch meat... the long hours are likely to continue indefinitely."
Spamcop reports 75% drop in spam after a California-based web hosting firm, McColo Corp., loses its Internet access.
There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. It turns out that a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors.
"The Mozilla Browser comes in many flavours. WebmasterWorld Members discuss the detail in correctly identifying all these differing browsers and UAs.
ICANN has posted draft contracts for new gTLDs. This would re-open the issue of tiered pricing for domains that the registry operators lost 2 years ago due to public outcry.
Is 3-way link building an effective way to rank?
"AdSense is ceding greater control to publishers over what ads are shown on their websites, plus dramatically speeding up the effectiveness of the competitive ad filter."
"I'm noticing a lot of major sites using the nofollow on pages like "about", "contact", and some dynamically created pages."
"We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition," he said. "I don't know why they would be either, frankly."
"To this day the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo,"
"It's disappointing to us that Google didn't want to defend this deal,"
"Microsoft has launched a broad new effort, known as Microsoft BizSpark, to help entrepreneurs and startups get off the ground using Microsoft tools and technology."
"That wouldn't have been in the long-term interests of Google or our users, so we have decided to end the agreement."
"In the coming days, the FCC will issue a report outlining the rules and requirements for this spectrum."
"Internet search leaders Yahoo and Google have given the Justice Department a revised version of their search advertising partnership in hopes of winning antitrust approval,..."
"On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a measure that would make white space available for wireless broadband."
"Telstra's Sensis has given up on competing with Google in online search and mapping, announcing today it would provide its Yellow business listings to Google Maps and abandon its own search engine for one powered by Google."
"In the latest edition of its twice-a-year 'Security Intelligence Report,' Microsoft said that the amount of malicious or potentially harmful software removed from Windows computers grew by 43 percent during the first half of 2008."
"...within the W3C there is work in progress in two separate successors for HTML4.x / XHTML1.x: Whatever happens there it will surely affect us, the webmasters. And what a better place to discuss the topic that at WebmasterWorld?"
"For those using Google alerts, you may be interested to know that you can now get these delivered in RSS rather than email format."
"WebmasterWorld members report Alexa ignoring noarchive."
Webmasters are buzzing with the dramatic changes that are now showing in Google Search results. Is this exactly what Google intends, or are there some significant bugs in the current recipe?
"They've automated an OCR process that converts scanned images of documents into indexable and searchable text."
"Google sends AdSense publishers an e-mail giving them a positive spin in these uncertain times"
"Google Inc may decide to scrap its proposed partnership with Yahoo Inc rather than accept government-imposed antitrust restrictions on it, according to two sources familiar with the companies' discussions."
"Key components of the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) are now open to you. Build applications on Yahoo! using the Yahoo! Application Platform."
"Websites can now allow Google Account users to login to their website by using the OpenID protocol."
"What we'd like to do is raise awareness so that people feel more confident about using the Internet," Cranton said. "We don't want to see a reduction in e-commerce."
"But as the climate has soured, network executives say many ad deals in the pipeline have been reduced or pulled. Tight wallets have forced ad agencies to get tough, even canceling ad deals to get a better rate."
"Yahoo had about 20.2 percent of queries in September, up from 19.6 percent in August,..."
"Today we're announcing many more ways to interact with your network on LinkedIn... it's a new way to create projects and collaborate, share information, customize your profile, or gain key insights"
"As part of the next release of Office, we're announcing that Microsoft will deliver Office Web applications, lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, through a browser."
"Just a heads up that I'm seeing an extremely large-scale phishing attack against enom underway at the moment."
"Microsoft and Yahoo have formed a group with two other partners to give law enforcement a hand in stopping bogus lottery scams and educating Internet surfers."
"Yahoo's Zimbra, the provider of a communications and collaboration suite that rivals Microsoft's Office and Outlook/Exchange, will make its cloud computing debut on Tuesday."
"We are happy to support that goal by providing OpenID-based sign-in functionality to Windows Live ID account holders."
"...new categorization system that you can use for describing the product type of your items."
"Looking at the value commercial entities are getting out of Twitter could help us build a sustainable company,"
"Microsoft Corp took the wraps off a new computing service that allows companies to use its data centres to run their Web applications in a bid to become a player in the so-called "cloud computing" trend."
"Now Google is applying "neuromarketing" to video advertising."
"Yahoo Inc. says it will invest at least $100 million in a new data center in Nebraska, creating at least 100 jobs."
"Russia's Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) said on Thursday it had refused to let Google acquire 100 percent of the Begun advertising agency."
"Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can detect whether your computer system requires this update. The update requires a restart."
"Baidu just released their financial results for the 3rd quarter (ended Sept. 30 2008) and it looks quite good for the Chinese search giant."
"I was wondering if this could have a negative effect on customer trust."
"We're gradually rolling out this functionality to publishers, and you'll see an invitation link at the top of your 'Overview' and 'Advanced Reports' pages when it's been enabled for your account."
"We are only requesting Yahoo to stop selling our trademarks and related terms to others who purchase them to confuse and/or divert consumers searching for AA.com or American's products."
"Ending support for expressions, a feature often used to fix the very issues we have worked hard to address in this release, helps make IE8 more standard, faster and more secure for our users."
"While the deals are small, they nevertheless signal a continued flow of cash into the sector."
"...developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world."
"For the past almost four years, this has been a large effort between Google and our partners. There have been a lot of people working on the code, but that's going to be multiplied by several orders of magnitude."
"Apple's fourth-quarter profit soared past expectations on extremely strong sales of the iPhone, but revenue was a little light, and the company left itself a lot of wiggle room heading into what it called a "challenging" environment."
"Yahoo said that its net income for the quarter fell 64 percent, to $54 million, or 4 cents a share, from $151 million, or 11 cents a share, a year earlier."
"WebmasterWorld members discuss solutions for child-friendly website creation and management. Young children know how to use the Internet, so why can't they have their own website!"
"You could call it stealth innovation."
"What have your experiences been? Is it easier to get links if you go with a professional looking template (including the footer link to the designer) than if you build your own site (which looks good and neat, but not "great")? Or doesn't it matter a lot except for certain niches?"
The opt-in "first click free" program was created for sites that require registration or subscription, but still want a presence on the search results. The Official Google Blog now offers more detail on the program, beyond the short explanations that were previously available.
"WebmasterWorld members discuss ideas to help beat the economic downturn and financial crisis." (-subscription required)
"Google insisted that all advertisers using the service would have to be regulated in Britain or Europe and would have to have internet links to organisations helping problem gamblers."
"The state of Kentucky's attempt to block resident's access to 141 online gambling sites has proceeded to the next level,..."
"Now, we show one set of statistics for Google and another set aggregating search partner performance."
"Google reported a profit that easily outpaced analysts' forecasts, and the company's shares jumped in extended trading."
MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) is Opera's new analysis of the structure of the web. It includes information on the most widely used tags, doctypes, validation data, average page size and much more.
"...AdWords display ad builder, which lets you create professional-looking display ads in AdWords without needing to hire a designer or start from scratch."
"Why can't advertisers just buy their way to to the top ad position?"
"WebmasterWorld members discuss the key aspects of the SEO interview process. What should we know before inviting in an SEO consultant or company?" (-subscription required)
"This is pretty major. At one point these guys delivered up to one-third of all spam,"
"The law also steepens penalties for intellectual-property infringement, and increases resources for the Department of Justice to coordinate for federal and state efforts against counterfeiting and piracy."
"...now is a good time to announce that we've decided to officially call the next version of Windows, "Windows 7"
"...this is a great feature. I think people will be extremely shocked as to how many duff links they have pointing at their site and how careless the average netizen is when they cut and paste links."
"...lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany over displaying photos and artworks as thumbnails in a preview of search results."
"On Monday, the popular social network is officially launching a self-service advertising program called MySpace MyAds that lets small businesses and individuals create ads tailored to the personal information on its users' age, gender, location and interests."
"WebmasterWorld members try to pin down the acceptable number of in-bound links to avoid penalities by the search engines." (-subscription required)
"...if a site were hacked and the owner incurred a loss as a result." (-subscription required)
If you could give yourself advice when you started your web career, it tends to resonate with yourself today. Funny how that works - no?
How to open communications with a domain owner when you want to purchase their domain.
"WebmasterWorld Members discuss the options for monetizing free online tools." (- subscription required)
"How best to implement a web-based activity for kids." (- subscription required)
"WebmasterWorld Members discuss the value in obtaining and holding Internet Certifications. Are they really worth anything at all?" (- subscription required)
"WebmasterWorld Members look at SEO and the ways to make money from the skills and experience." (- subscription required)
"WebmasterWorld members discuss the definition of 'trust' and 'authority.' That makes a site an 'authority?' (- subscription required)
WebmasterWorld members discuss the issue around working from home, and how to meet non-work friends. (- subscription required)
"WebmasterWorld members debate the menu postioning and heat map with the aim of better site layout and greater success." (- subscription required)
Our members' sharp eyes spot Yahoo's just launched version of "Sitelinks". For some searches, there are many positions showing the new links, not just number one. (- subscription required)
"Webmasterworld members discuss .net vs LAMP technology, and discuss which is easier to use and why?"
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