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Google names that tune in one
Thursday 29 October 2009
Search giant Google has taken a step into the on-line music market by launching a new search service in partnership with established music sites Lala and iLike (owned by MySpace). Currently available only in the USA, the service – which some pundits are dubbing 'OneBox', as this was Google's internal code name – allows users to search for music tracks by entering song titles, artists or just snippets of lyrics.
Google Unveils Social Search
Monday 26 October 2009
On Monday, Google announced its new Social Search feature, which the company has rolled out as an experiment on Google Labs. Part of the search giant's 'Holy Grail' mission to make search more relevant, Google Social Search includes results from the user's 'social circle' in a special section within the results pages.
Massive Chinese click fraud ring uncovered
Tuesday 20 October 2009
It's pretty obvious that as long as there's pay per click (PPC) advertising , there will be click fraud. The two just go hand-in-hand in today's world. Click fraud occurs when a person sets up a website, signs up with an ad network and then clicks on the ads to generate ad revenues with false clicks.
Royal Mail postcode lottery
Thursday 08 October 2009
The Royal Mail has threatened legal action against Ernestmarples.com, which has been supplying postcode data to a number of websites. In response, Ernestmarples.com – cheekily named after the Postmaster General who oversaw the introduction of postcodes way back in 1959 – has closed its postcode feed to the sites, which include Job Centre Pro Plus (which helps people find jobs), HealthWare (which locates nearby pharmacies and hospitals), Planning alerts.com (which monitors planning applications) and Straight Choice (which reveals the sources of political leaflets).
Voice is choice with Bing
Thursday 08 October 2009
In the US, Sprint Wireless has announced the launch of its new Samsung Intrepid Smartphone, which is the first mobile to feature Microsoft's brand-new voice user interface, Tellme. Available in the States from October 11, the new mobile will allow users to search the web with Bing , compose a text message or dial a friend by simply talking instead of typing.
Google loses out to Bahama botnet
Thursday 08 October 2009
Click Forensics, the Internet traffic quality management company, has revealed in its blog this week that the Bahama botnet can claim web giant Google among its many victims. As well as cheating on-line advertisers out of free traffic and generating fraudulent paid clicks, ad providers are also suffering at the hands of the scammers, believed to be Ukrainian.
Gmail attacked by phishing scam
Wednesday 07 October 2009
Internet giant Google admitted to the BBC on Tuesday that users of its web-based e-mail system, Gmail, had been subject to an attack from hackers, with passwords then posted on line. The news came hard on the heels of reports that up to 10,000 Hotmail addresses had suffered similar phishing assaults, being posted on line at Pastebin, a website used by developers to share code.
Hotmail passwords leaked
Tuesday 06 October 2009
Microsoft has today been forced to admit that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail passwords have been leaked on line. The news was originally broken on 1 October by technology blog Neowin and, since then, messages advising friends to change their passwords have been flying around Twitter and other social networks.
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