Shopping Search Week 2005
A special page for Search Engine Watch members provides detailed statistics of the shopping and comparison traffic search leaders in different markets around the world Click here to learn more about becoming a member
Although shopping and comparison search hasnt received quite the attention or press that other specialty search areas such as local search and mapping have seen its been a busy year in the space Weve seen mergers and acquisitions among the major players and promising newcomers get into the game...
Google a hacker ally
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Google a hacker ally
by Derek Sooman on Tue 29 Nov
Google could well be a hackers best friend It appears that the popular search engine can be used to find vulnerabilities in corporate websites more quickly than had previously been possible according to hacking expert Johnny Long Apparently there are some 14 ways a malicious user can hack into a site using Google and there is also a list of organizations with sites that can be hacked in these ways
The Google search engine found at wwwgoogle...
AOL puts Vivisimo's growth on the line
Vivisimo formed a partnership with Microsofts Internet division to provide the search service on FirstGovgov portal At nearly 2 million the contract provides nearly a third of Vivisimos roughly 6 million in annual revenue which has quadrupled in the past year
But if s parent Time Warner Inc decides to sell to Google instead Vivisimos secondlargest revenue stream could dry up
Earlier in the year picked Vivisimos clustering technology to sit on top of search partner Googles engine on s search box Terms of the deal were not released but its believed to be close to the value of the FirstGov deal...
Webmaster World Removes Themselves From the Search Engines
In an industry obsessed with search engine optimization and marketing it seems like a crazy idea Purposely block all spiders from visiting your site and allow your listings to drop out of engines like Google Yahoo and But thats just what is being done by Webmaster World owner Brett Tabke
The problem is that Webmaster World has become so large and so popular that its suffering from an overload of rogue spiders that are taking a serious toll on the server...
Day 11 - Google Shares the Love, DNS Issues Resolve and CafePress Lets Me Down
Day eleven was a happy day Google rankings kicked in making it clear that Jagger was still a fan of CafePress sites and that you can work around the sandbox if you make use of someone elses domain I also finally figured out what was going on with the issues that were holding up the launch of wwwthelactivistcom and ran into the first real reason to be unhappy with the CafePress system
If youre just catching up with this series of articles be sure to swing into the ongoing discussion thread at the Small Business Ideas forum Youll be able to link to each days article and participate in the discussion going along with it...