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- "The agency is considering rules and enforcement decisions to force the cable and telephone companies to disclose their policies more clearly for delaying traffic that they say is clogging their systems." |
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- "...a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it "chatback" because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog, your visitors can talk back to you." |
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- "Web search company Google Inc has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between the continents." |
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- "Getty Images, the biggest distributor of pictures and video in the world, agreed Monday to sell itself to the private equity firm Hellman Friedman for $2.4 billion, including debt." |
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- "Google's gonna start 2/28 a beta of a feature in AdWords that finds accounts where budgets aren't being fully spent and then automatically matches ads in those accounts to whatever additional queries Google wants to in order to spend 100% of the budget." |
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- "Adobe Air allows developers to build tools that still have some functionality even when a computer is no longer connected to the net." |
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- "Two Detroit pension funds sued Yahoo Inc and its board on Friday for rejecting Microsoft Corp's unsolicited $41.2 billion offer in a sign of growing shareholder frustration with the online search and media company." |
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- "The system works by scanning the iris as the eye is put to the viewfinder when the shot is composed." |
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- Our members notice a significant increase in new domains that are displaying Sitelinks this week. |
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- "The lawsuit said Microsoft's labeling of some PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" was misleading because many of those computers were not powerful enough to run all of Vista's features, including the much-touted "Aero" user interface." |
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- "Microsoft has published a list of programs affected by Vista SP1." |
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- "There appeared to be small shifts if the stats, compered to the previous month, with Google up 0.1% to 58.5%." |
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- "I want to add a blog to my main site, and am wondering if I'll be better off hosting it myself on my dedicated server, or use blogger or one of the other sites." (-subscription required) |
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- "European data privacy regulators said Thursday that Internet search engines based outside Europe must also comply with EU rules on how a person's Internet address or search history is stored." |
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- "We are now using Hadoop to process the Webmap; the application which produces the index from the billions of pages crawled by Yahoo! Search." |
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- "The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google's new service, which won't be open to the general public." |
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- "WebmasterWorld members look at the alternatives to AdSense, and how to get the money rolling in." |
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- "Web search leader Google Inc. plans to start selling ads to appear in Web videos after it agreed a partnership with YuMe, an online video advertising network." |
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- "Those of you who did not acquire your trademark names and keywords can now join the masses and pick up your domains." |
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- "we have made the decision to no longer allow certain exceptions with regards to our display URL policy. This includes, but is not limited to redirects and vanity URLs. This policy will be strictly enforced regardless of past approvals and will apply to all advertisers, beginning on April 1st." |
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- "WebmasterWorld members discuss the issues and effect around removal of a site from DMOZ." |
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- "WebmasterWorld members debate the status of traditional reciprocal links." |
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- "Changing site content on a regular basis will have an impact on search ranking, however, how often is too often?" |
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- "In the very near future, AdWords data will only appear in a user's Analytics reports if the "Apply Cost Data" box is checked within the AdWords interface." |
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- "We can afford to make big investments in the engineering and marketing that needs to get done. We will do that with or without Yahoo," said Gates in an interview with Reuters." |
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- "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." |
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- "Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet company part-owned by Yahoo Inc, has hired advisers to evaluate issues related to a possible purchase of its U.S. partner by Microsoft Corp after the Chinese government said it would scrutinize the deal..." |
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- "In fact, Toshiba has not made any announcement or decision. We are currently assessing our business strategies, but nothing has been decided at the moment." |
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- "The committee said the 120 claims of "domain name front running" it reviewed generally resulted from misunderstandings about how the domain name industry works." |
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- "Now that Google's main search results pages include more images, video links and other elements, it is more appropriate, she argued, to have corresponding advertising formats." |
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- "ICANN is considering the impact of introducing TLDs with common filenames, such as .exe, .pdf, .mp3, etc." |
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- "Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of the aQuantive digital advertising company that Microsoft bought last year, will assume greater responsibilities at the company's online services unit..." |
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- "What are the potential problems that will take place, that will make me wish I never had?" (-subscription required) |
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- "The attack they describe, called "DNS resolution path corruption", could be carried out by a simple piece of code implanted via a malicious website or email attachment,..." |
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- "But on Tuesday, representatives of Facebook stopped short of saying the company would introduce a one-step delete account option." |
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- "In a quarterly letter to investors released on Tuesday, Bill Miller, the star stock-picker at U.S. asset manager Legg Mason Inc, estimated fair value for Yahoo to be near $40 per share, versus Microsoft's original offer of $31 per share." |
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- Microsoft has updated it's crawler to support gzip compression and conditional page loading. |
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- "After doing a lot of research, I have decided to retire the links page." (-subscription required) |
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- "Yahoo Inc has displaced Google as preferred provider of Web services to mobile operator T-Mobile in northern and central Europe, Yahoo and T-Mobile said on Tuesday." |
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- "Now that the free introductory period comes to an end (all sales were processed free of charge until Feb 1st), are you planning on continuing to offer Google Checkout on your site?" |
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- "A WebmasterWorld member has a domain with short, hyphenated words as they feel it doesn't look so good without the hyphens. The discussion surrounds the rumor of penalties in the SERPs for hyphenated domains. How many hyphens are good/bad? How is a webmaster to know what will attract a penalty?" (-subscription required) |
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- "Many analysts expect Microsoft to raise its offer by $5 billion to $12 billion to entice Yahoo to sell. Yahoo is believed to want a bid of at least $56 billion, or about $40 per share." |
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- "Yahoo! is seeking to restart merger talks with AOL as a means of defending itself against the $45 billion hostile bid approach from Microsoft, The Times has learnt." |
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- "The seal is cookie-based and linked to one computer (not your Yahoo! ID); so you need one for each computer you use. This is available in the US market only." |
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- "In those 10 years, XML has seen some fascinating spinoff innovations, but the spec itself has remained unchanged. There is no XML 2.0, 3.0, nor does it seem there's any need or desire for one." |
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- "...Yahoo's board feels the offer of $31 per share 'massively' undervalues the company." |
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- "WebmasterWorld members take a humorous look at link requests, with lessons to be learnt." |
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