updating

Followup blog posts are an often overlooked way to develop an idea further, provide more information on an older post, and to develop a posting series.

Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft has been slowly releasing a minor update to Microsoft AntiSpyware, one that also moves the beta expiration date from July 31 to December 31.

Both Google and Yahoo appear to be updating their listings at this time. Searchers and SEOs have reported major fluctuations in search engine results pages over the past two days.

The word on the street from those who watch such things is that Google is currently doing a Page Rank update.

I am having problems using Windows Update on Windows XP Home Edition. I noticed that Windows update was notifying me that Windows Security Update 823559 needed to be installed. It would install without problems. But the next time I booted up my P.C. Windows Update was giving me the same story. I used Windows update and found Windows SP1 update and tried to apply that as well. The Security update would fail with a message saying that the patch was not compatible with this version of Windows. I look at the Windows Update history log and find multiple failures for the 823559 patch and multiple successful updates for SP1 (which failed when installing - go figure).