| July 19 | American Airlines Settles Google Trademark Lawsuit Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp., dropped a trademark lawsuit against Google Inc. over the search engine's use of the carrier's name to trigger paid Internet advertisements for competitors." |
| July 19 | Google Earnings Hit By UK Ad Dip Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"Google reported the first-ever sequential quarterly revenue decline in its U.K. business." |
| July 19 | Yahoo Launches Their Own Version of Google's Sitelinks Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum by whatson
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) |
| July 19 | Opinions: Dot net Vs LAMP Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum by AjiNIMC
"Webmasterworld members discuss .net vs LAMP technology, and discuss which is easier to use and why?" |
| July 19 | Microsoft In Private Pilot Test of Ad Revenue Sharing Scheme Posted in Microsoft Corporate by engine
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| July 18 | Facebook - Too Creepy, Childish for Business? Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by Tastatura
WIRED article title "Facebook: Too Creepy, Childish for the Workplace" suggests that people who do too much social networking aren't serious about business. |
| July 18 | Yahoo Search Engine Updates YoYo Posted in Yahoo Search Engine and Directory by Garya
"WebmasterWorld members see updates in the Yahoo Search Index yoyoing." |
| July 18 | Microsoft Ends Q4 With Strong Profit And Revenue Growth Posted in Microsoft Corporate by engine
"For the company's fiscal fourth quarter, which ended June 30, Microsoft earned $4.3 billion, or 46 cents a share, up from $3 billion, or 31 cents a share, for the corresponding period a year ago. Total revenue rose 18% to $15.84 billion." |
| July 18 | Yahoo Saga and Posturing Continues Posted in Yahoo Corporate by engine
"Yahoo Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock and Chief Executive Jerry Yang blasted dissident shareholder Carl Icahn as a "corporate agitator" who would "strike any deal" with Microsoft to "get his money back quickly." |
| July 18 | Opera Mobile 9.5 (Beta) Now Available Posted in Opera Browser Usage and Support by outrun
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| July 17 | Google AdWords New Keywords and Placements Posted in Google AdWords by marcus11
"Instead of creating separate campaigns for keywords and placements, you can now include both in any campaign. All ad groups now have tabs for both keywords and placements, and the two can work together to target your ads on the content network." |
| July 17 | Google 2nd QTR 2008 Results: Profit Up 35 pct Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by Marcia
"With online and international traffic increasing, Google today reported a nearly 35 percent jump in profit for its second quarter, compared with the same period last year." |
| July 17 | Technologies Behind Google Ranking - from Google's Amit Singhal Posted in Google Search News by chewy
"Our work on interpreting user intent is aimed at returning results people really want, not just what they said in their query. This work starts with a world class localization system..." |
| July 17 | Is There a Future for CAPTCHA As It Is Now? Posted in Webmaster General by eelixduppy
"Is CAPTCHA even worth implementing still if it is so easily worked around?" |
| July 16 | Twitter Confirms It Has Acquired Summize Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
"All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc." |
| July 16 | Class Action Lawsuit For Google With Ads On Parked Domains Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
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| July 16 | Blinx "Red Label" API Enables Video Search Posted in Web Video Creation and Optimization by engine
"Through a program called Red Label, the company is opening its application programming interface (API) so other sites can pipe video search queries to Blinkx, retrieve the results, and publish them,..." |
| July 16 | 30 Months Jail And $180,000 Fine For NY Spammer Posted in Foo by engine
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| July 16 | Google and Yahoo Defend Ad Alliance at a Hearing Posted in Yahoo Corporate by poster_boy
"Their arguments were countered by Microsoft officials who argued that the partnership would allow Google and Yahoo to dominate more than 90 percent of the search advertising market and could significantly raise prices." |
| July 15 | Why Your Server Log Files are Complete Fiction Posted in Website Analytics - Tracking and Logging by incrediBILL
Many online services hide as browsers to gain access to your server. As a side effect, they are added to the visitor count in your analytics - scrapers, spam harvesters, spambots, botnets and all sorts of other illicit activities add to the problem. |
| July 15 | Viacom "backs off" From Demand For YouTube User Viewing Habits Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"Google, owners of YouTube, will now hand over the database but without data that could identify users." |
| July 15 | SWFObject Flash Files - Now Indexed by Google Posted in Google Search News by tedster
"Google has expanded its indexing of SWF files for the second time in two weeks..." |
| July 14 | eBay Cleared By Court In Jewelry Counterfeit Case Posted in Ecommerce by engine
"In a long-awaited decision in a four-year-old trademark lawsuit against eBay brought by jeweler Tiffany and Co., Judge Richard Sullivan of the Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled Monday that the online retailer does not bear a legal responsibility to prevent its users from selling counterfeit items on its marketplace." |
| July 14 | Icahn's Nine for Yahoo Board Posted in Yahoo Corporate by engine
"Investor activist Carl Icahn is seeking control of the Yahoo board and will run a slate of nine dissident directors, according to his definitive proxy, filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission." |
| July 14 | eBay Strikes Deal with Buy.com Posted in Ecommerce by engine
"Buy.com's presence has hurt many smaller sellers that compete in those product categories." |
| July 13 | Google Site Links: What Are The Key Factors Posted in Google Search News by trinorthlighting
"Anyone experiment with this feature yet and how did Google react in the Serps?" |
| July 13 | Yahoo Says No Again to Microsoft/Icahn Proposal Posted in Yahoo Corporate by longen
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| July 13 | Using Nofollow on Internal Linking Posted in Google Search News by santapaws
"I wonder whats the current thinking for using this tag on unimportant internal links like privacy statements." |
| July 12 | Stalemate In YouTube Identity Protection Between Google and Viacom Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"We hope that Google will turn its focus back to anonymizing the data they are required to deliver, and spend less time making statements about why they won't get it done." |
| July 12 | Comcast Won't Be Fined Over Net Neutrality Posted in Foo by engine
"But it would be forced to change its practices and give the commission more details on what it did in the past." |
| July 12 | An "Introduction to Google Ranking" Posted in Google Search News by Hach3
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| July 12 | Blogs - What's Really the Appeal? Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum by pageoneresults
"Tell me, what is it that appeals to you about Blogging and/or Blogs in general?" (-subscription required) |
| July 12 | Yahoo and Microsoft Search Marketing Campaign Spend Changing Posted in Yahoo Search Marketing Pay Per Click Advertising by beren
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| July 11 | Google CEO: "The World is better off with an independent Yahoo" Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
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| July 11 | Yahoo and News Corp Deal "Unlikely" Posted in Foo by engine
"News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo Inc. transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal." |
| July 11 | U.S.FCC Aims to Punish Comcast Over Net Neutrality Posted in Foo by engine
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| July 11 | The Value of Adding Meta Descriptions For Search Engines Posted in Google Search News by Whitey
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| July 10 | Google AdWords Landing Page QS Slap, Again Posted in Google AdWords by chewy
"WebmasterWorld members debate the latest landing page Quality Score 'slap'" |
| July 10 | About.com Pops the Cork on a Major Redesign Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum by martinibuster
"I'm not sure what the logic was to the former layout, but there is logic to the new design as they seem to be dividing the page up into lifestyle buckets." (-subscription required) |
| July 10 | Yahoo Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) Posted in Yahoo Search Engine and Directory by engine
"BOSS is a new, open platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API." |
| July 10 | Software Developers Get Opportunity With Apple iPhone Posted in The Macintosh Webmaster by engine
"The Cupertino, Calif., company will open its App Store, an online bazaar that will attempt to do for mobile applications like games, reference guides and other software what Apple's iTunes Store has done for music." |
| July 10 | News Corp. Plans Online Ad Operations in Japan Posted in Asia and Pacific Region by bill
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| July 10 | Windows Update KB915748 Kills Internet Connection for Zone Alarm Posted in Microsoft Windows OS Usage - NT - XP - Vista by dreamcatcher
I had this issue this morning after I installed the latest Windows update. Seems their latest update ( KB915748 ) is killing the net connection if you use Zone Alarm. |
| July 9 | Google Unveils 3D Virtual World Called Lively Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by martinibuster
"...it's launching its own world, a virtual world, to be exact." |
| July 9 | DNS at Risk From Multivendor Cache Poisoning Posted in Webmaster General by briggidere
"On July 8th, technology vendors from across the industry will simultaneously release patches for their products to close a major vulnerability in the underpinnings of the Internet...This is the largest synchronized security update in the history of the Internet, and is the result of hard work and dedication across dozens of organizations. |
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