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About a month ago, Google announced some things it was doing that would improve the way sites rank across different language versions…
Recession-triggered personnel shuffles are causing all sorts of people to turn to LinkedIn. Somewhat ironically, big changes are now taking place inside that company, too, with the current CEO leaving, the old one regaining his title, and a former Yahoo joining the picture.
Murray Dick and Mark Ward have an article up at BBC News looking at Rushmore Drive and minority-based web searching. They look specifically at a search engine called RushmoreDrive, which we pointed to back in April upon its launch.
Spammers are now taking their cue from search engines and advertisers by making their emails more personalized in attempts to steal users information, according to a new security report from Cisco.The report found there was a 90 percent growth in threats coming from legitimate domains, nearly double what was seen in 2007. While targeted spear-phishing represents about 1 percent of all phishing attacks it is…
LinkedIn has opened a new data center in Chicago. A post at the LinkedIn Blog says:LinkedIn has grown by leaps and bounds this past year and currently we are adding professionals to our site at the rate of one user per second. The primary goal for the LinkedIn Operations organization is for our site and partner applications to be available 24/7.
Online holiday shopping continues to be on par with last year, with spending through December 14, totaling $20.17 billion, according to comScore.For the first fourteen days beginning December 1 (Cyber Monday), sales totaled $9 billion, up 2 percent compared to a year ago. The most recent week saw ecommerce sales slipping 2 percent.
