Last Tuesday, Google published a report stating that web browsing and searching are increasingly becoming risky. Google for a year and a half now has been identifying web pages that infect vulnerable hosts via drive-by downloads, i.e. web pages that attempt to exploit their visitors by installing and running malware automatically.
Companies Using Universal Search Internally
If you use Google to search, then you have probably seen their universal search, which shows more than just html documents in the search results. Major companies are now seeing the benefits of using universal search to search their internal resources. Professional services firms, especially law firms, are using universal search tools to instantly locate content, wherever it’s located.
Writing For People And Search Engines
So, Merriam-Webster broke down and let "w00t" into its dictionary. Yeah, well, they’re trying to stay relevant. That doesn’t mean anybody should ever use this word outside of World of Warcraft or, at the most, instant messaging. How long do you think it will be before w00t is as silly as gnarly, tubular, radical waves (can you see the zinc-oxide on my nose, dude?) or those ridiculous Hammer pants?Word to your mother. Right, homey?
Google Redesigning Korean Search
Though Google’s strategy with the search engine is “the simpler the better,” it seems that cultural demands placed on the search giant is forcing it to tweak the philosophy a bit in Korea.
Google Has New Views On Search
Alternative views of search results received a test last May, and Google recently updated some features for these different visualizations.
Google Rolls Out New Experimental Search Features
Google has created an experimental search page and has added some new features to its "alternative views" experiment from last May.Map view is one of the new features described in the official Google Blog. Andrew Hogue writes," you’d like to sit back and enjoy some jazz around town. This information is on the web and accessible through regular web search, but probably spread out over many sites and pages."
Modern Search Engine Optimization
In the course of judging the SEMMYs, one of the great posts I read was The SEO Playbook – Welcome to the Rabbit Hole Alice by Stuntdubl (aka Todd Malicoat). It’s a great post because it helps outline how SEO is expanding in it’s scope.
The Horror of Search Engine Penalties & Filters
There are two words that are guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any website proprietor: penalties and filters.
They damage rankings and ultimately may result in banishment from the search engines. However, before panic sets in, let us guide you through the basics of penalties and filters.
A penalty is caused by significant violations of a search engine’s website guidelines, such as:
ComScore on Search Engine Rankings for December
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace for December 2007. Among core search engines in December 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with 5.6 billion core searches conducted, representing a 58.4 percent share of the search market. December U.S. Core Search Rankings
Freshness Random At Major Search Engines
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft varied so much over a three-year study period that researchers found none of them consistently rated best at updating their indexes.