Yahoo sets off with video search competing with their rivals

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000072.html reports yahoo video search tab added to the main tab,

It looks like a great improvement and should help a lot of yahoo search visitors,

More on google video search visit google blog

http://www.google.com/googleblog/ features more information on new google video search,

If you have videos to be put online send a request here services.google.com/inquiry/video

Google Video searches TV programs

Google’s new video searches TV programs, Check it out here: http://video.google.com

What google says about their product

“Our mission is to organize the world’s information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.

Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or Napa Valley) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning text of all the programs in our archive for relevant results. Click on a program title on your results page and you can look through short snippets of the text along with still images from the show. Visit the “About this show” side panel to learn when this show will air next.”

Googleguy replies to the nofollow tag newly invented for prevent blog spam by spammer SEOs and SEO companies

This is just a new building block that lets software makers have better

granularity–at a link level instead of a page level. And they can declare

things about the authorship of a link that they couldn’t before. Lots of people

are using it to do smart things; for example, LiveJournal can recognize

authenticated users and they won’t get the nofollow tag. So it’s not the case

that every comment or trackback will be reduced in value. Last week, a software

maker didn’t have that ability, but now they do.

In other words, if you trust

a user or like their comment, it won’t be hard for them to get search juice from

commenting on your posts. I believe that adding this flexibility for software

makers will be a very helpful thing in the long term.

google guy has commented in battle media blog here, battellemedia.com/archives/001197.php#9161 about the new nofollow attribute which will be added soon to comment spam to prevent comment spamming,

Read more on google’s effort to combat comment spam here,

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

MSN beta search google live in search.msn.com

MSN search which has been in beta testing for a long time went like now in search.msn.com , people who are having a great ride ranking in beta should be very happy, people who had a bad time ranking in beta might be a bit unhappy, overall it is a good move,

Froogle security hole reveals gmail accounts of the buyers,

New security flaw in Google’s price comparison engine, Froogle, was discovered by an Israeli hacker.

By embedding JavaScript in a URL pointing to Froogle, a hacker can gain access to the user’s Gmail account. The JavaScript redirects the browser to a malicious web site, where the hacker can read the user’s cookie, which contains personal information, such as purchase history, user name and password for Google services.

According to Nir Goldshlager, who discovered the flaw, even if the user chooses not to save the cookie, the hacker can still discover the user’s user name and password for other google services such as Google Alerts ,Google Group because google stores a unique number per user that identifies the user is other google services, and the hacker will be able to read this identification number.

Report was originally translated by aviransplace.com from hebrew,

Original report of the flaw in english format is here,

www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/13/serious-flaw-in-froogle-reveals-gmail-accounts/

Google Directory updated – in 216.239.39.104

Google directory has been updated with dmoz dump, Google which uses dmoz directory has now updated its directory with latest dmoz data, Search Engine Genie which was recently acquired into dmoz starts appearing in certain datacenters of google directory,

Check this datacenter directory whether your site appears in google directory,

http://216.239.39.104/Top/

To check other google datacenters for SEO purposes just replace the IP address with the targeted IP of the datacenter you want to watch,

Google hacking expected to boom in 2005 -zdnet.com article

zdnet.com article states google search has become hackers play ground where they find sensitive information indexed by the google web crawler ( googlebot) They say even surveillance web cams exposed on the net are a threat

more news here news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39184116,00.htm

Google introduces — Google Mini for enterprise search

Google mini is an excellent product highly scalable and perfect for corporate users to design a perfectly searchable intranet,

Some cool features of google mini, this is what google says about their product,

Google search quality
We’ve taken Google web search and optimized it for use on public websites and intranets to deliver relevant search results at record speed.
Familiarity breeds contentment
By providing the same familiar look and feel as Google.com, the Google Mini offers a search solution that your users will actually use. You can weave Google into your site design either by giving the Google Mini interface a “mini” make-over using a built-in wizard interface, or by doing a full facelift via the Mini’s XML feed. Making users smarter
The Google Mini’s productivity-enhancing extras include a self-learning spell checker, the ability to view documents in HTML (instead of having to download plug-ins) and accessing cached versions of documents — even the ones that are offline.

Get the google mini product for your corporate usage here,

1bu.com proxy creates mirror copys of your sites

1bu.com a chinese based proxy server creates mirror copies of your sites, for example when we type in http://www.googlecom.1bu.com

Google.com is mirrored and displayed as a subdomain of 1bu.com, Already google is suffering from 302 redirects and causing dupe content penalties, this new feature of 1bu.com proxy might be a major problem

site:1bu.com has more than 150,000 pages indexed in google and most of them are mirror pages of established sites, check it out here, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A1bu.com