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According to a security research firm report issued on Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search are currently under a large-scale organized attack campaign designed to steer online searchers towards malicious malware websites.
Chances are, if you do any significant amount of searching, you may even run across some of these dangerous search results. Hundreds [...] |
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Today Google is one of the most used search engines for searches today, I will provide a list of thing that you can do to increase your site search results for a targeted keyword. Using these tips will not only increase your results with Google but will help with other Search Engines such as Yahoo & MSN. |
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Yahoo is releasing an upgrade to its Yahoo Widgets platform that accommodates Adobe's Flash multimedia display technology.Widgets are lightweight applications that provide desktop access to various types of content, such as news feeds or reminders. Featured in the upgrade is a new version of the Yahoo Widget Engine, which is a runtime environment that allows the widgets to run on a desktop, and an updated Yahoo Widget Gallery, offering more than 4,000 widgets, Yahoo said.Yahoo Widget Engine 4.5, accessible on Yahoo's widget download page, adds capabilities for developers to write widgets based on Flash; also, HTML support has been extended, said Scott Derringer, director of product management at Yahoo. Specifically, Flex and ActionScript are supported for writing Flash-based applications."What we're seeing is authors are wanting to write movies and video, and that's a new capability that can now add to desktop widgets," Derringer said. A widget can be built that runs assets that already existed in Flash."Video can now be run inside of a widget," said Derringer. Full HTML support, meanwhile, provides capabilities like flow layout and more standard control.While widgets are primarily consumer-focused, there could be business uses, such as running training videos, he said. SAP, for its part, has built enterprise widgets and a plug-in architecture, called SAP Widget Foundation, which could access information like sales data, said Jonathan Strauss, Yahoo senior product manager. SAP's technology extends the Yahoo Widget engine."Using the SAP plug-in, you can query your SAP system to put those sales numbers into your desktop widget," Strauss said. An SAP representative said SAP's platform can use the Yahoo engine but does not rely on it exclusively; other engines, such as Google's, also can be used.Version 4.5 of the Yahoo engine offers an enhanced security model to give users a better understanding of what a widget does. Also new is a reworked document object model so it is compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. "The benefit there is really familiarity form the developer's point of view," said Strauss.The new Yahoo Widget Gallery has been revamped to make it easier for consumers to find widgets they want. Top-rated and heavily downloaded widgets are highlighted. A new categorization is featured based on tags.Other improvements in the gallery include more search functionality and a new ratings and reviews system for users."We find people are quite passionate," about the widgets, said Strauss.Yahoo monetizes the widgets through advertising. Yahoo acquired the widget technology when it bought Pixoria and its Konfabulator technology two years ago. |
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IBM and Yahoo issued a new version of their free enterprise search product on Tuesday, just weeks after rival Microsoft announced a competing product.The latest release of IBM's OmniFind Yahoo Edition contains a number of enhancements, according to IBM. Users can now generate up to five separate indexes of documents, thereby enabling them to search from a particular set instead of the entire repository.Other tweaks include the ability to define additional custom search fields, such as from HTML tags or document metadata. "If you've created a Word document with customer metadata fields, it will be able to extract it," said Aaron Brown, IBM's director of search and content discovery. IBM also said the software is now easier to install as a Windows service.OmniFind Yahoo Edition is based on the open source Lucene project. The update includes the latest version of the Lucene core, according to Brown: "It helps us close the loop with the community, because we've contributed a lot of IBM code back into Lucene."However, the update does not include any scalability improvements, and remains limited to searching 500,000 documents per instance, Brown said.Brown said the updates were primarily guided by feedback from customers. The software has been downloaded about 25,000 times, according to IBM. Yahoo and IBM released the first version of the search engine about one year ago.Microsoft's entry into the stand-alone enterprise search market has been seen as potentially disruptive for certain vendors, such as Coveo, but not for search companies offering high-end, specialized products.Like IBM, Microsoft is adopting a multitier strategy around search. Both companies are giving away an offering in the hopes of attracting customers, who will eventually desire greater capabilities and pay for commercial products.Microsoft's new products, Search Server 2008 and Search Server Express 2008, which is free, will be generally available in the first half of 2008, according to the company.Brown said Microsoft's move was not unexpected: "We obviously didn't have any inside information. I can't say I was entirely surprised, given where the market is moving."He said there is "a lot of traction" in Europe for OmniFind Yahoo Edition right now, adding that a range of organizations are using the product, from a small U.S. public school district to a global electronics company, which he did not name.Burton Group analyst Guy Creese recently told IDG News Service that he expected Microsoft's partner community to build products on top of the company's base search technology, extending its market potential. IBM has a head start in this area, with companies such as Axioma.Brown said of IBM's partners, "They've adopted the base platform and are building richer stuff." |
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IBM and Yahoo have released a new version of their enterprise search tool with enhancements on customization and personalization of searches. Launched December last year, the OmniFind enterprise search engine which is a free application has been downloaded 25,000 times in a span of one year. Hence, it’s about time that IBM and Yahoo releases [...] |
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Searc is so much more than "The Big 3" (Google, Yahoo and Live). Charles Knight at AltSearchEngines publishes a very interesting monthly list of 100 top alternative search engines. Now he has nominated 10 search engines for the Search Engine of the Year Award. |
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After a long extended weekend of football, overeating and hitting the malls, Cyber Monday has descended upon us as another way to get excellent discounts and holiday savings. Cyber Monday symbolizes the beginning of the holiday shopping season online and a quick search across Google, Ask.com, Yahoo and Live Search shows that merchants are addressing [...] |
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As expected Google once again dominated U.S. search engine rankings for October based on the recent ComScore report. The almighty Google search engine even managed to post an increase in total searches conducted during the month. Hence, automatically reducing the percentages share of the other search engines, particularly MSN, Yahoo and AOL.
There’s not much changes [...] |
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Have you ever wanted to import a Google AdWords campaign to Yahoo Search Marketing but didn't know how? You do now, thanks to Discovery, who wrote an excellent guide on Search Engine Watch Forums. On the Yahoo Search Marketing end,... |
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Anne Ahira told us that there is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors. Thank you Anne Ahira. |
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