Edgy bloggers using Google’s Blogspot might have been miffed already—but likely also understood—at Google slapping content warnings over their adult-oriented material and demanding age verification. But what might deter (poorly) minors from viewing is also preventing search crawlers from accessing the content at all.
Hitwise Issues Online Retail Warning
Common sense says that online retailers are in a better position than their brick and mortar counterparts; consumers will be able save time, gas, and possibly the money that would go towards sales taxes by just shopping from home this season. Still, according to a new Hitwise report, the winter is shaping up to be pretty harsh.
Amazon Contextual Links Warning
Amazon Contextual Links has launched in beta – actually a good job it is beta because I have already noticed a few bugs just by visiting one blog that was discussing the news.
Google-hosted Blogs – Content Warning
When a Google Blogger blog is flagged by many users, and Google reviews it deciding it contains hate content, then Google may put up a “content warning” (this is not a new feature, it exists for some time).
Gay/Lesbian Gamers Enflamed Over Warning
An extension of the don’t tell, don’t ask military mantra, World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard Entertainment appears to have taken a different approach to interpreting a harassment policy: don’t talk about being gay and nobody will bother you.
Warning: Objects Within Your Browser Window Are Smaller Than They Appear!
Is your internet window showing objects (companies) that seem larger than they appear? I think so.
FDA Issues Warning On RU-486
The US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning regarding the emergency contraception pill RU-486 after a rare infection took the life of a fourth California woman. The agency suspects that proper FDA protocols were not followed.
Warning about Checking Gmail RSS on Bloglines
Warning for all G-Mail users who use the RSS feed feature via Bloglines. I just got a bit of a shock when I checked a search feed at Bloglines to find a headline that looked very familiar.
WARNING AFFILIATES: If you miss this point you’ll lose sales guaranteed!
Yes, there are more than just one mistake affiliate do again and again. And although the mistakes are clearly in front of their eyes, but they don’t know do they?
Before we start, I have ONE VERY crucial step. You cannot go any further before you read this step. Affiliating is about marketing, and marketing effective developed formula involves…guess what? Targeting.
Computer Virus Warning Signs
If you’re conversant with computer code, looking at the actual strings of code in a suspect program can help spot suspicious or out of place commands. But even if don’t know your way around codes it may help to look at the contents of a data file anyway. Strange messages are commonly inserted by virus writers and can be read within the code. Look at a data file with a word processing program and search for these.