Not long after the first security hole was found, another one has turned up.
Basically, these security holes allow a hacker to point you to a Google URL and steal your Google cookie data. They do this by exploiting an update to a Google service that does not block HTML injections. A piece of javascript passes [...]
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Microsoft is well known for doing it’s own thing and making it hard for web designers and developers, but their latest revelation is a classic.
It’s well known that a massive percentage of users, especially corporate users use Outlook as their email client.
Now, the HTML rendering engine in Outlook uses internet explorer when displaying HTML in [...]
Danny Sullivan over at SearchEngineLand.com has written a very interesting post about how wrong Google’s top search terms for 2006 list is. In it he conducts his own little experiment with Google trends and his results are very interesting.
For example he talks about how the list must be heavily filtered because search terms like “sex” [...]
A couple of weeks ago it was Yahoo’s top search list, now we have Google’s.
Google’s top searches for the year:
1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki
The top searches on Google News:
1. paris hilton
2. orlando bloom
3. cancer
4. podcasting
5. hurricane katrina
6. bankruptcy
7. martina hingis
8. autism
9. 2006 nfl draft
10. celebrity big brother 2006
Quite [...]
For a while now, I’ve always thought that it was ok to have images displayed near to Google Adsense ad blocks, as long as there was a distinct separator between them such as a border or line etc.
Well it seems Google has changed their policy, or at least made it more clear. You can not [...]
It has been talked about a few times this week that Google copied a customised IE7 download splash page straight from Yahoo. Check above link for screenshots.
This is bad news for Google because even if Google got an outside agency to create the page, it still reflects bad on the companies image.
Anyway, the page wasn’t [...]
It’s that time of year again when we get to see the top 10 searches in different categories throughout the year on Yahoo!
Most of it is what you’d expect, like the tragic death of Steve Irwin earlier in the year but saying that, a few bizarre ones have crept in!
Looking in the international searches section [...]
An article published today states that “Most of the leading websites around the world are failing to provide the most basic accessibility standards for people with disabilities.”
This is somewhat expected because as Mark Gristock from Foviance says, “This is the same results we always get. The guidelines have been in place for seven years but [...]
It seems that Windows PC’s are not the only ones vulnerable to security holes. A report by the BBC states that an update for Mac OSX contains more than 20 patches and is 33Mb in size.
So, if you have one, make sure it’s up-to-date with the patches!
The popular Text Link Ads company has just been acquired by MediaWiz in the last 24 hours.
The Text Link Ads platform, for those of you that don’t know, is an excellent way of either selling text link ads on your website or blog, or purchasing them on someone else’s site. The company has been around [...]