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Dark Traffic – Increases to 83% of Incoming Enterprise Emails
Illegitimate traffic has increased from 64% to 83% of incoming enterprise emails due to a tripling of directory harvest attacks by spammers to find valid email addresses. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Begins to Include Landing Page to Decide Keyword Minimum Bid
Google has begun to include the quality of the landing page, of AdWords ads, to decide the minimum bids for keywords. The Google Quality Score is based on factors such as keyword’s clickthrough rate, relevance of ad text and the number of people bidding for it. [Read more] [Read more]
Alexa Releases Alexa Web Search Platform Beta
Alexa has released Alexa Web Search Platform Beta. Using Alexa Web Crawl, developers will be able to create new search services without spending millions of dollars in search and server technology. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Ireland to Hire 600 People
Google Ireland is going to hire 600 more people for its Dublin offices over the next 2-3 years. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo Partners with Seven Network
Yahoo has partnered with Seven Network, an Australian media network. The partnership will allow advertisers to buy advertising packages for both online and offline media. [Read more] [Read more]
Skype Partners with Thompson Directories
Skype has partnered with UK based Thompson Directories. The deal will allow users to search for businesses using Skype’s optimized web toolbar. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo: Number One Site on the Web
A report by eMarketer has revealed that Yahoo is the number one web portal with 101.3 million unique visitors in a month. [Read more] [Read more]
New Scam Email Pretends to Be From Diana Memorial Foundation
Sophos has found a new scam email that pretends to be from the Princess Diana Memorial Foundation. The email informs the receiver of a sizeable grant from the fund and asks for bank details or a “handling fee” from the receiver. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us
Yahoo has acquired del.icio.us, a content tagging website. Del.icio.us allows users to bookmark and save content which they can tag with keywords and share with others. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Adds New Features to Gmail
Google has added Web Clips feature to Gmail. Webclips allows users to read headlines from RSS feeds on top of the Inbox page. [Read more] [Read more]
Sensis Introduces Pay-per-Call Ads in Australia
Sensis, an Australian search engine, has introduced pay-per-call ads in its search site. The pay-per-call is powered by eStara’s click-to-call technology. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo Launches Yahoo Answers
Yahoo has launched Yahoo Answers, a question and answer portal. Yahoo Answers allows Yahoo subscribers to post a question on any topic and the questions are answered by other Yahoo subscribers. [Read more] [Read more]
