Yahoo and Microsoft have delayed finalization of their agreement that would have Microsoft provide the search results and advertising for Yahoo Search. When the deal was announced in July, the two companies agreed to reach definitive agreement by October 27, 2009. Microsoft said there are some “issues that need some additional clarity and definitive details” [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Yahoo and Microsoft Delay Finalizing Search Pact
Friday, October 30th, 2009640,000 Websites Estimated to be Infected with Malware in Q3
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Dasient, which monitors website for malware, reported that an estimated 640.000 websites and 5.8 million web pages were infected with malware in the third quarter of 2009. A significant portion of those infected websites, 39.6%, were reinfected during quarter. Websites can become reinfected if the vulnerability that allowed the website to be hacked into is [...]
Gumblar Malware Code Replaced With Iframe Neutralizer
Monday, October 26th, 2009The Gumblar malware, which returned in the past several weeks, appears to be neutralized for the moment. In its return, Gumblar was using compromised websites to host its malware code instead of a website owned by the person(s) behind the hack. Other websites that have been compromised by Gumblar, then have code inserted into them [...]
Google Announces That It Will Add Twitter Posts to Search Results
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Just a few hours after Microsoft announced that it would be adding Twitter tweets to its search results, Google has announced that they will be doing the same. Unlike Microsoft, which released a beta version of their Twitter search along with their announcement, Google will introduce a product that “showcases how tweets can make search [...]
Bing Adding Twitter and Facebook Posts to Search Results
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Microsoft announced today that they would be integrating Twitter tweets and Facebook status updates into Bing’s search results. Tweets can be searched from the beta of Bing Twitter search at http://www.bing.com/twitter. Microsoft made no mention of whether or when tweets will be integrated in the standard search results. In July, Bing added tweets from a [...]
WordPress 2.8.5 Improves Security
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009WordPress 2.8.5 was released yesterday, which includes a fix for a denial-of-service (DoS) attack and a number of changes that removed code that could potentially be used to hack into WordPress. The denial-of-service attack utilizes specially crafted trackbacks that cause WordPress to use a significant amount of processing power when they are processed which could [...]
Mobile Searches on Google Grew 30 Percent in Q3
Friday, October 16th, 2009During Google’s third quarter earnings calls Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt reported that Google had a 30 percent quarter-over-quarter increase in mobile searches during the quarter. Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s Senior Vice President of Product Management, said that smart phone adoption was a driver of growth and that mobile search has grown twice as fast as desktop [...]
Google Adds Crawler View and Malware Details to Webmaster Tools
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Google has added two tools to their Webmaster Tools service under the “Labs” label. The Fetch as Googlebot tool shows the contents of the page and HTTP response headers that Google receives for a specified page. Being able to see exactly what Google sees, when it requests a page, can be helpful in diagnosing problems [...]
Google Expands Search Results Filtering Tool
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Google has announced that they have added a number of new features to Search Options, their search results filtering tool included in the search results page. The tool already provided a number of options for filtering results based on the when the pages were created and now can filter results from the past hour and [...]
