Microsoft and Yahoo today announced they had reached a deal to form a search and advertising partnership. Under the partnership, Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power Yahoo Search and Microsoft’s AdCenter search advertising service will provide search ads to Yahoo Search for 10 years. The deal increases the reach of Microsoft search engine and search [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Yahoo and Microsoft Reach Search and Ad Deal
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009WordPress 2.8.2 Patches Security Vulnerability
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Following less than two weeks after the release WordPress 2.8.1, which fixed a potentially serious security vulnerability, a new version has been released to patch another potentially serious security vulnerability. In versions before 2.8.2, comment author URLs were not fully sanitized which could lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. When viewing a page in [...]
Microsoft Claims Increase In Users Following Bing Launch
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Microsoft has reported that they saw an 8 percent increase in unique users for their search engine during the month of June. At the beginning of the month Microsoft launched an update of the search engine and rebranded it as Bing. Microsoft also reported that in their own polling the number of people “likely to [...]
WordPress 2.8.1 Released
Friday, July 10th, 2009WordPress 2.8.1, which fixes a number of problems with 2.8 and addresses a potentially serious security vulnerability, was released yesterday. The problems that were fixed were causing serious problems for some users. A work around was created so that some templates that were not working due how they called get_categories(). Dashboard memory usage was reduced [...]
