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Yesterday's DoS Attacks Included Google, Possible Cyberwarfare Suspected Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 7, 2009 As news broke yesterday about the Denial of Service (DoS) attacks affecting Twitter, revelations began to unfold about how widespread the attacks really were. Facebook slowed down and produced error pages. LiveJournal experienced downtime as well. While Google didn't go down, they were affected. This statement from a Google spokesperson explains ... » Continue reading
| Digg Begins Rolling Out Beta Version of New Ad Platform Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 7, 2009 Digg will begin rolling out an early beta version of its new ad platform. Most Digg users won't see the ads, as they will only be rolled out to a small subset of users initially. The ads will appear along with submitted content, except they will clearly be marked as ... » Continue reading
| Live Certification Gauntlet at SES San Jose 2009 Posted by Greg Jarboe Aug 7, 2009 No one will be beaten to death. At least, I don't think there will be any physical punishment. But on Tuesday, August 11, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Market Motive U will be holding a Live Certification Gauntlet in Exhibit Hall 2 where the keynote is given. If ... » Continue reading
| Bing Adds UFC Fighters to Instant Answers Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 7, 2009 If you're into UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), then you have a new way to get quick info on the mixed martial arts organization. Bing has added UFC athlete information to its Instant Answers feature. Simply type the athlete name into the Bing search box and you'll get the Instant Answer: This update ... » Continue reading
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crawlers are very much irregular Aug 7, 2009 Hi I have a website and the home page of it is crawled by crawlers daily but on my services page the crawlers are very much irregular, although I am very much regular with my link building activity. Please help Thanks in advance! » Join the discussion
| RushmoreDrive shuts down Aug 7, 2009 RushmoreDrive.com, an Ask spinoff aimed at black people, gave it up a few weeks ago and shut down. Lesson learned: do not create a search engine with a 7-second load time for each view of the home page. » Join the discussion
| Video Preview on Hover Aug 6, 2009 Interesting report (to me, anyway) about Bing's ability to offer thumbnail 30-second previews of videos in search results when you hover your mouse over them. Of course, people are complaining that this lets kids get to porn that much easier, but I say, what's the difference between a hover and a ... » Join the discussion
| Google Testing New SERPs Layout for PPC Ads Aug 5, 2009 We spotted this earlier today when doing a search with Google in Firefox. The ads no longer float to the right hand side of the page when you expand your browser. They now stay snugly up against the organic listings. Seems to be a test as it was not doing ... » Join the discussion
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