Authors: Ryan Sanders and James Hrenak (Poc Network)
“Google today unveiled a new project to give its flagship search engine a social makeover.” (Kenneth Corbin — Internet News)
Google recently mentioned it at the Web 2.0 conference as an upcoming project being worked on in Google Labs.
Basically Google is trying to bring the two world of social [...]
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Google Also Signs on With Twitter and Microsoft with Facebook for Bing
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Author: Ryan Sanders
In our recent blog post we spoke about Twitter’s recent inclusion into Bing’s search results, but we didn’t even cover half of it.
Not only will tweets from Twitter be displayed on Microsoft’s Bing in search results, but Google has also signed on to offer the same. Now both of the net’s currently most [...]
Advice on Creating and Maintaining Secure Passwords
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Author: Michael Santerre (Google.com)
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we’d (Google) like to take this opportunity to remind you about smart password practices.
Phishing, a topic that’s been in the news, is unfortunately a common way for hackers to trick you into sharing personal information like your account password. If you suspect you’ve been [...]
Google Sets the Standard for Crawling AJAX-based Sites
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News)
Google’s proposing a new standard for making AJAX-based Web sites search-engine friendly. If adopted, the standard could mean developers no longer have to choose between site optimization and dynamic pages.
It’s been common knowledge for years that Web sites created using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (define) would not be crawled and indexed [...]
Study Touts Internet Explorer 8 As Most Secure Browser
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Source: Yahoo! Tech
Editor: Ryan Sanders
According to a recent independent study, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been found to be the most secure browser currently available.
The study was conducted by US based security research company NSS Labs, and included testing for Google’s Chrome, Firefox 3, the beta of Opera 10, Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft [...]
Google – Looking Beyond Keywords
Friday, August 14th, 2009SAN JOSE, Calif. — What’s next after keywords? The director of Google’s wildly successful AdWords program says the search giant is working on ways to make the system easier to use and more effective.
“Keywords work very, very well, but we think we can do better,” Nicholas Fox, the business product management director for Google AdWords, [...]
Is Search Engine Marketing Ready to Make A Rebound?
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News)
It appears that search engine marketing is stabilizing after a series of increasing quarterly declines, according to a report out this week.
The news comes at a time when marketers are trying to capitalize on the continued growth in performance-based advertising, or those in which advertisers only pay for measurable results. That [...]
Why IE Does Not Support HTML 5 Video Yet
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
One of the most talked about aspects of the emerging HTML 5 specification is the new video tag. Several browsers including Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox support HTML 5 video already, though to date Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) does not.
The HTML 5 video tag removes the need for [...]
Google Chrome 2.0 Launched and Stable
Sunday, May 24th, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
Google Chrome stable is now at version 2.0. Forgive me if I don’t sound too excited, I’ve been running Chrome 2.0 dev-channel (Google has three version of Chrome dev, beta and stable) for months without issue on a test box. But for those that aren’t running the dev-channel Chrome 2.0 [...]
