A new newsletter is was posted today. I wrote a rather lengthy article talking about Google’s Design and Content Guidelines as posted on their site. A lot of good information […]
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Gmail Update
In a news release today, Google anounced that it has fixed the GMail security flaw discovered by HBX Networks last week, which potentially allowed users to access the login information […]
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MSN Search To Go Live Soon?
Search Engine Watch is reporting that MSN beta search will go live Feb. 1. This is the first actual date I have heard, but we’ll have to wait for an […]
GMail Flaw Exposes Messages to Hackers
HBX Networks, a UNIX developers community, has identified a flaw in Google’s GMail systems that could allow GMail users to access other users’ private access information including logon ID and […]
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Ask Offers Site Preview in SERPS
I’m not sure if this is new or if I just noticed it, but AskJeeves allows you to preview certain sites in their search results before deciding to click on […]
Yahoo Enters Desktop Search Arena
January 11th, Yahoo’s Desktop Search Tool moved into Beta and was released to the public. Yahoo’s Desktop Search is based upon a specialized search technology developed and licensed by X1 […]
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Internet Explorer Critical Security Issues
NewScientist.com issued an article today regarding what are said to be “extremely critical” security issues in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. According to the article, three major security flaws have […]
MSN to Compete on the PPC Front
This comes as no surprise to me, but rumors are getting out that MSN plans to compete with Google and Yahoo (Overture) with their own version of paid ad placement. […]
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MSN Still in Beta
I was suprised to find that MSN Search is still in Beta. I didn’t have any specific information on when this was going to go live, however I figured it […]
Google Desktop Search Security Hole
A Lone Star Times article released today, presented the findings of Dan Wallach, a Rice University professor, and two of the university’s computer science graduate students, who have discovered a […]
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MSN Desktop Search
MSN has rolled out its own version of desktop search. I can’t say I was immediately impressed as the indexing of my content literally took days and it seemed to […]
Advanced Language Analysis and the End of Traditional SEO
A common technique of on page search engine optimization is the manipulation of isolated keyword densities in an attempt to ascertain an ideal keyword to text ratio. In fact this […]
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Addendum to Google Suggests
Just a quick addendum to my post yesterday on the Google Suggests feature. I don’t think it is likely that Google will use this feature to drive visitors to higher […]
Google Suggestions, Thumbs Down
Google is beta testing Google Suggest. As you type, Google provides search query option for the searcher to select from, if they wish. This is similar to features Internet and […]
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So Much Noise, So Little to Say
I recently signed up for Google Alerts. Its a neat little feature that will send you news stories or links to web site content that matches your “search” query for […]