fallout

It seems that 2007 brings us a “SEOs are teh devil” mantra from a multitude of newly crowned golden children of the web and to be perfectly honest it’s starting to annoy me. No doubt the likes of Slashdot have already dealt with and got over the impact the SEO industry may or may not have on the operation of their site - having implemented procedures to deal with comment spam, crap submissions and the like, Slashdot is still doing fine.  So why are newer community driven big brand sites so anti-SEO?

The search advertising company accidentally provided financial guidance to analysts before excising it from the presentation that was made available online.

A top expert in aiding corporations and other large-scale enterprises maintain their computer networks says network managers still are experiencing significant fallout from users' installing for themselves the latest security enhancements to Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.

There has been a lot of discussion recently about search engine personalization, with search engines such as Yahoo! and Google experimenting with factoring in profile information to adjust search results based on relevance to a specific user rather than just giving the exact same results to every user who searches for the certain keywords.

On Monday, July 26, 2004, the major search engines were hit by a variant of the MyDoom virus. This particular version of the virus sniffs out email addresses and domains from infected computers and proceeds to query the major search engines in order to locate more addresses attached to the discovered domain.