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Google placed well ahead of its Internet search competitors in a recent customer-satisfaction survey, another advantage for the runaway market leader. read on

When you visit the AdSense Setup tab in your account, you’ll notice a new “AdSense for feeds” option. This means you can now use AdSense to place ads in your RSS feeds read on

“SEO has evolved into more than what it was 24 months ago. As Google slowly expands its ability to read Flash objects, as mobile search begins to pick up steam, as new search engines hit the ground running, SEO shows no signs of stunting its evolution.” read on

“Google analyzes backlinks posted on web pages to calculate PageRank, which in turn influences the search results ranking of pages. But web pages aren’t the only places to find URL pointers.” read on

“I noticed a few weeks ago that sites using Google Knol or Google pages were getting great positions in the Google SERPs [search engine result pages]. [...] But now the trick is out, and people are inundating Knol to grab greater positions in the SERPs than they could attain with normal means.” read on

Google may have added some relevant blog posts, under the search result, as opposed to showing the typical Sitelinks. more

Google seems to be testing showing author information in the search results. This might be a Google Scholar feature that was tested on Google.com searches this month. more

Google has launched its own version of communally constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which consistently ranks among the most visited websites in the world.

The Internet search powerhouse went live late Wednesday with a free service dubbed “Knol,” to indicate a unit of knowledge.

While Wikipedia lets any visitors make changes to its online pages, trusting that people with accurate information will correct errors and misleading entries, Google lets folks author their own articles.
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Internet security researchers warned that hackers have caught on to a “critical” flaw that lets them control traffic on the internet.

An elite squad of computer industry engineers that labored in secret to solve the problem released a software “patch” two weeks ago and sought to keep details of the vulnerability hidden for at least a month to give people time to protect computers from attacks.

“We are in a lot of trouble,” said IOActive security specialist Dan Kaminsky, who stumbled upon the Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability about six months ago and reached out to industry giants to collaborate on a solution.
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