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Update: It has been discovered that someone is selling an invite on eBay, with the price steadily rising (over five grand right now).…
Google has made some changes to the way Webmaster Tools users verify their websites. Before, the user's verification meta tag was based (partially) on the email address of their Google account, which meant that if they changed the email address in their account settings, their meta tags would also change, and they'd become unverified for any sites that used the old tag. Google has made…
Norton, the makers of the popular security software, has rolled out their latest advertising campaign, and let's just say it's an interesting one. The commercials feature 80's metal band Dokken and famed street fighter Kimbo Slice. Be honest, you did a double take with that last sentence didn't you? No you read it correctly.
Google has started adding links to specific parts of webpages in the snippets on search results pages. Google gives the example of the result for the Wikipedia entry for "Trans Fat." The snippet provides links to History, Chemistry, Presence in food, and Nutritional guidelines. These are all sections of one page that the user can go straight to from the results page.
Google has announced a new feature for the Google Content Network called View-Through Conversion Reporting. The feature is designed to help advertisers better measure the value of their display ad campaigns.
There has been an increase in the number of hijacked social networking accounts, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). One of the most common scams involves hackers planting malicious software onto a users computer. It starts by someone opening a spam email, sometimes sent from another friend's hijacked account.
