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,

Google sandboxed sites seem to be released in this datacenter http://66.102.7.99

Everyone must have heard of the dreaded google sandbox algorithm where a new site or a site which gains more backlinks in a short period of time gets into sandbox where it fails to rank for competitive terms,

it seems google has finally clicked the magic switch in these datacenters

http://66.102.7.99

http://216.239.53.104

http://66.102.7.104

http://66.102.7.105

http://66.102.7.147

most of the sites we monitor which deserved top 10 rankings are now ranking in the deserved positions in the above DCs, lets hope it migrates to google.com and sticks, hope everyone sees their sites in top positions in the above DCs

Cindy McCaffrey plans to leave google marketing Job,

It seems cindy mccaffery has planned to leave google, She has been a core person in google’s marketing department and it is a big lose for google,

Silicon beat says, www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2004/12/19/mccaffrey_leaving_google.html

Google’s vice president of corporate marketing, is leaving the technology

company, the first top executive to depart after the IPO. McCaffrey has been

chugging away at the P.R. business for 20 years, including gigs at Apple

Computer, E*TRADE and the 3DO Company. And that’s after starting a career as a

journalist. She’s been at Google more than five years, which means that,

post-IPO, she can comfortably go off and do nothing. And that’s apparently what

she intends to do for now

Does google lag / sandbox algorithm really exist or it is just a type of spam filter and the new site penalty is just a myth?/?

Check the top 10 results for tsunami,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tsunami

this site tsunamihelp.blogspot.com is completely new but ranking in top 3 for the keyword tsunami, It is breaking our head what causes some new sites / new pages with sudden boost in backlinks not appearing in the top results of google,

Has been seeing lot of theories across various forums but none of them give real quality targeted information we need,

So what causes this sandboxing of sites, will it ever get released ?????

Google top 10 queries for the year 2004

Google also has revealed their top 10 queries for 2004,

Here is the list,

Popular Queries2004

1. britney spears

2. paris hilton

3. christina aguilera

4. pamela anderson

5. chat

6. games

7. carmen electra

8. orlando bloom

9. harry potter

10. mp3

Source: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Google toolbar pagerank update on Jan 1 2005

Google has updated its toolbar pagerank after a long wait of 3 months, this is evident that google has moved into quarterly pagerank updates on their toolbar,

Anyway there is something to be happy about, Check your updated pagerank by downloading google toolbar is you dont have one,

We updated our Pagerank 10 sites list check it out here