Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Engine Land’s Most Read Stories Of 2012: Google Places Goes Google+, Panda, Penguin & More What were our most popular stories on Search Engine Land...
What were our most popular stories on Search Engine Land over the past year? Below, the news stories that were published in 2012 that were read the most: Google Places Is Over, Company Makes Google+ The Center Of Gravity For Local Search (May) Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For...
One of the least-tapped areas of local business website optimization continues to be semantic markup. Semantic markup can increase chances that information from your website will be highlighted in search engine results pages via rich snippets, attracting greater attention and clickthroughs. So,...
Last month, I touched on several ways that businesses could use apps as an alternate channel to reach mobile searchers. Online retailers have a couple opportunities to use apps in this way, by tapping into the eBay and Amazon marketplaces. Let’s take a closer look at eBay, and some strategies...
CPA Bidding in Google AdWords allows you to set a CPA bid, and then Google will do all the bidding for you. When it works, its fantastic, as you don’t have to spend all day trying to set bids inside the account. Instead, you can focus you time on more permanent improvements, such as testing [...]
We know that the number of DMCA requests have risen since Google introduced its Pirate Update, a penalty against sites that have an unusual number of legitimate DMCA requests filed against them. But what’s the count? TorrentFreak.com did the math and counted that Google took down over 50...
If you visit Google today, New Years Eve, you will see a very busy Google logo. The logo makes up many of the best Google Doodles created in 2012. In a sense, it is a Google Doodle of Google Doodles. The Google Logo links to the specific Google Doodles directly in the Google Doodle Directory. [...]
Do a search on Google Finance for the word “sell,” and Google returns the stock chart for Apple. Why? Some thought Google had rigged this as an “Easter Egg” or joke. However, Google says this isn’t so. In the first edition of this story, I could see no good reason why...
As we head into the holidays, we’re looking back at our own metrics for top posts of the year, and we wanted to share a recap of the most read stories in several categories on Search Engine Land. In the Search & Analytics column, our experts cover everything from the basic installation of...
The best things in life are free: hugs, moonlit nights, belly laughs. But the best things in business always cost, right? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Turns out there are plenty of great business freebies, and I'm not just talking about the swag bags you get for attending a $3,000 conference. I mean actual, honest-to-goodness free stuff, like apps and services built to help small-biz folks boost their productivity—and hopefully their bottom lines. Below I've rounded up my five favorite business freebies from the past year.
LG Electronics is hoping to make its smart TVs more attractive by making it easier to share and find content, while Samsung Electronics is only hinting at what its plans are for 2013. Both companies will present new TV hardware and software at the International CES trade show in Las Vegas next week. LG's TVs will make it easier to share content with a feature called Tag On, which uses NFC (near-field communication) to connect a TV with a smartphone or other compatible devices. To connect, users just have to hold a smartphone or some other NFC-enabled device against an NFC sticker on the TV, the company said on Monday. A recommendation function called On Now will suggest trending on-demand and broadcast content. Results pop up in thumbnail images, making it faster and easier for the viewer to make a selection, according to LG. The TVs will also have thinner bezels, the frames that surround TV screens.
Now that the final curtain is about to drop on the year that was 2012, there's no better time to look ahead and try to anticipate what 2013 will bring. have been coming fast and furious throughout the tech press for some time already, of course, but not many focus on Linux. With that in mind, here are some things I think we'll see in the Linux world in this upcoming year.
Norton may have indeed given you a false positive when it warned you that a program was malware. But it's just as likely--maybe even more so--that Norton's mistake came when it told you that your hard drive was clean. And I'm not knocking Norton here. These issues apply to every antivirus program in existence.
Could 2013 be the year of the TV for the high-tech industry? With Apple chomping at the bit to revolutionize TV and Google renewing its efforts in the market, now Intel appears to have its ducks in a row to launch its own TV offering. Intel is ready to start marketing a set-top box built on its chips that will deliver a mix of streaming and cable programming to subscribers in selected markets, according to . The service will be aimed at viewers who want to stream content to their TVs but don't want to entirely slash the tether to cable, where they night want to still to watch programming such as live sports.
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have uncovered a piece of backdoor-type malware that and allows attackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying systems. The threat, known as BKDR_JAVAWAR.JG, comes in the form of a JavaServer Page (JSP), a type of Web page that can only be deployed and served from a specialized Web server with a Java servlet container, such as Apache Tomcat. (See also ) Once this page is deployed, the attacker can access it remotely and can use its functions to browse, upload, edit, delete, download or copy files from the infected system using a Web console interface. This is similar to the functionality provided by PHP-based backdoors, commonly known as PHP Web shells. "Aside from gaining access to sensitive information, an attacker gains control of the infected system thru the backdoor and can carry out more malicious commands onto the vulnerable server," Trend Micro researchers said last week in a .
The European Union's top data protection watchdog expects that only a select band of U.S. technology companies will meet E.U. data protection standards for the foreseeable future. Under the E.U. Data Protection Directive, personal data cannot be transferred out of the E.U. unless the destination country's data protection laws are deemed adequate. To date, only a tiny number of jurisdictions have been deemed adequate: Argentina, Canada, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Israel, Switzerland, and Uruguay. However, U.S. companies if they agree to abide by seven "safe harbor privacy principles" for the protection of E.U. citizens' personal data. Such data includes sensitive information such as patient records required for telemedicine. The U.S. Ambassador to Europe, William Kennard, called for the U.S. to be given "adequate" status in a recent speech at the Annual European Data Protection and Privacy Conference in Brussels.
Samsung is apparently still working on an update for that could allow attackers to siphon personal data from a phone. affects Samsung's S II and S III phones and several models of its Galaxy line, including the Note, Note II, Note Plus and Note 10.1, all of which use the Korean company's Exynos 4210 and 4412 model processors. The flaw and was disclosed in mid-December on XDA Developers, a forum for mobile developers. Samsung's engineers apparently made a poor configuration mistake involving the Android kernel and failed to restrict kernel address space mapped to userspace via the /dev/exynos-mem device driver. An incorporating the exploit was created by a developer nicknamed Chainfire on the forum.
Is your business still using Windows XP? If so, you’re not alone. But, you should also seriously consider moving to a newer operating system. You could just step up to Windows 7, but there’s also a pretty strong case to be made for —particularly Windows 8 Enterprise. It’s a bit cliché at this point to talk about what a dramatic change Windows 8 is compared with previous versions of Windows. Microsoft gave the UI a complete overhaul and reengineered the Windows operating system with tablets and touchscreens in mind. Beneath the veneer, though, it’s still Windows, and once you get accustomed to navigating the new OS, Windows 8 is pretty slick. Assuming you want to , you then have to decide which version. There are a handful of features that are only available in Windows 8 Enterprise—like Windows To Go—that make it an ideal operating system for organizations that have already embraced, or plan to adopt a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy. There are in general for both the business and the employees. The business is exposing its data and network resources to rogue computers that may contain malware, or could end up lost or stolen and potentially expose sensitive information. The employee is cluttering up their personal PC with software and data they don’t own, and have no desire to use outside of a work environment. And, that’s just scratching the surface.