Botnets Driving Spam Volume

Spam volumes have risen 141 percent since March, continuing the longest streak of increasing spam volumes ever, according to McAfee's Q2 Threats Report, released today. More that 14 million computers have been hit by botnets, a 16 percent increase over last quarter. McAfee researchers also found that, over the course of 30 days, Auto-Run malware had infected more than 27 million files. Auto-Run malware, which…

Microhoo Deal Not the Only Piece of Significant Search News

Yahoo and Microsoft intend for their freshly announced search advertising deal to be completed in early 2010. That's not too far away, and in that deal, Bing will become the algorithmic search used by Yahoo. At that point, Bing becomes the clear competitor to Google in straight up search.

Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Announce Deal

Well, they've finally gone and done it. Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered to "change the search landscape." The two companies today announced a long-awaited deal, in which Microsoft will power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive  search advertising provider for Microsoft's search engine, Bing. You know this history by now. Here's what the companies have to say:

Visits To Career Sites Jump In June

More than 65 million Americans visited career sites in June, representing a 10-percent increase over the previous year, according to a new report from comScore. CareerBuilder was the most popular site with 21.7 million unique visitors, followed by Yahoo HotJobs with 17.9 million visitors (up 23% over a year ago), and Monster with 14.5 million visitors (up 6%).

Opera Mini Mobile Browser Reaches Milestone

Mobile web browser Opera Mini has reached a significant milestone. Opera announced that Opera Mini users viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month. The company released its "State of the Mobile Web" report(pdf) this week, and it reveals some other interesting findings as well: