Google will soon begin sending messages via the Webmaster Tools alerting webmaster that “content management systems (CMSs), forum/bulletin-board applications, stat-trackers”, and other web applications on their websites are out of date. This is an expansion of the alerts that Google began sending in October of 2008 to alert webmaster that they were running versions of [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Google to Add Notification of Outdated Applications to Webmaster Toolsations
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Google Starts Incorporating Breadcrumb Links into Search Results
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Google has announced that they have begun to incorporate website’s breadcrumb links into some search results. Breadcrumbs links are used to aid users in navigating the hierarchy of a website. For a small number of websites, Google will trim the URL shown under a search results snippet to just the domain name and then display [...]
Google Adds Malware Warnings to Mobile Search Results
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Earlier this week Google began labeling results that are suspected of containing malware in the mobile version of Google search. Since August of 2006 Google has been labeling suspected websites and blocking access to them in their standard search results. The only change made for the mobile version is that label placed under the result [...]
Gumblar Malware Becomes Infectious Again With New Hosts
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Last week the Gumblar malware was neutralized when the files containing its malware infection code were replaced with code that attempted to neutralize iframes. Today, those files have been modified to redirect users to files on other websites that contain the malware code. Like the original websites that hosted the malware code, these new hosts [...]
