Yahoo update – yahoo updates its search index on 23rd january

Webmasterworld.com guys report yahoo update webmasterworld.com/forum35/3814.htm

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SEO Advice: Spell-check your web site – a typical Joke from Matt cutts

Matt cutts seem to be in happy mode today when he blogged about a site which offers 100% money back guarantee, The site which posted this offer has a banner which has typo errors, so how do you get business when your banner has spelling errors, Nice that matt noted this,

See spelling error in this message,

Boris Floricic shuts down german wikipedia even after his death,

Boris Floricic was a german hacker and phreaker, He died a mysterious death in the year 1998, Many reported his death was a suicide, some members of his family reported he was murdered by an intelligent agency,

read more on the wikipedia entry here – Boris floricic hacker

the german wikipedia.de reads as follows due to court rules

“Liebe Freunde Freien Wissens,
durch eine vor dem Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg am 17. Januar 2006 erwirkte einstweilige Verfügung wurde dem Verein Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. untersagt, von dieser Domain auf die deutschsprachige Ausgabe der freien Enzyklopädie Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) weiterzuleiten.
Wir lassen derzeit durch unsere Rechtsanwälte alle möglichen Schritte prüfen, um Ihnen schnellstmöglich wieder einen unkomplizierten Zugang zur freien Enzyklopädie Wikipedia zu bieten. Bitte haben Sie dafür Verständnis, dass wir aus rechtlichen Gründen bis auf Weiteres keine weiteren Stellungnahmen in dieser Sache abgeben werden. “

askjeeves releases cache dates – when will MSN and Yahoo add cache dates to their cache,

Search Engine Watch blog reports ask jeeves adding cache dates to sites cache in their results, This is a bold improvement, Yahoo and MSN still didnt bring this facility, Hope they will follow soon,

Google is the first search engine to introduce option,

Google talk now open generation – the seo blog news,

Google talk, google’s mservice now offers open generation a new way to communicate with your friends using different IDs,
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-federation-for-google-talk.html

As google says you are allowed to interact with users with any ID,

on the help page

“We currently support open federation with any service provider that supports the industry standard XMPP protocol. This includes Earthlink, Gizmo Project, Tiscali, Netease, Chikka, MediaRing, and thousands of other ISPs, universities, corporations and individual users. “

What google says

“We’ve just announced open federation for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, you might be wondering. No, it has nothing to do with Star Trek. “Open federation” is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still exchange email. The same for the phone: there’s nothing that prevents singular users from talking to Sprint users.”

Some sites were reporting MSN was showing weird search behavior for current seo contest,

Lots of blogs are monitoring the ongoing SEO contest, Some blogs report MSN is showing weird behavior for the search http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=V7ndotcom+elursrebmem&FORM=QBRE ,

First many thought MSN is filtering out results for this keywords, Now it revealed its not the case, MSN search looks brilliant than what we think of, It seems msn search first try to understand the meaning of the words, Later if it cant find the words in dictionary, it adds the words to adult search keywords,

Now the search V7ndotcom elursrebmem reveals 41,000 results but we have the following note below the search bar,

Web ResultsPage 1 of 41,216 results containing V7ndotcom elursrebmem (0.06 seconds) (with SafeSearch: Moderate)

You can see the mention safesearch moderate, Usually this gets displayed it adult related keywords are searched,

So is MSN so concerned about po*n in its results, if its true MSN looks great,

Million Dollar Homepage back after a severe and malicious DDOS attack,

We reported in our previous posting that million dollar homepage is suffering from ddos attack, Now they are back online,

this is what Alex says in his blog

“I can confirm that MillionDollarHomepage.com has been subjected to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by malicious hackers who have caused the site to be extremely slow loading or completely unavailable since last Thursday, 12th January 2006.
I can also confirm that a demand for a substantial amount of money was made which makes this a criminal act of extorsion. The FBI are investigating and I’m currently working closely with my hosting company, Sitelutions, to bring the site back online as soon as possible. More news soon.
“

Million Dollar Homepage down for past 2 days, Reports says its because of a major DDOS attack launched against the site,

The Million Dollar Homepage which has been reported to run for 5 years is now down for a considerably long time, Most reports say the site was down because of a major DDOS ( distributed denial of service ) attack against the site,

Infoworld reports

“The wildly successful pixel-powered Web page of a British university student is coming under increasingly intense DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks trying to knock down the profitable brainstorm

The site is hosted on a server in Ashburn, Virginia, in a data center run by Equinix, where InfoRelay has much of its hardware, Weiss said. The high bandwidth use didn’t cause problems for InfoRelay, as the company has a multigigabit network and provides bandwidth for a major search engine, Weiss said.

But The Million Dollar HomePage attracted malicious attention, coming under DDOS fire late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, he said.

Officials from InfoRelay met to figure out what they could do to stem the attacks within the constraints of Tew’s service package, Weiss said. Tew wasn’t on an enterprise-level deal that often includes advanced hardware, from vendors such as Cisco Systems (Profile, Products, Articles), used to prevent the effects of DDOS attacks, Weiss said.

Administrators implemented several proprietary internal techniques to slow and alleviate the effects, he said. “We sort of volunteered our time to do what we could,” Weiss said.

The attacks are coming from computers worldwide, including the U.S., Europe and Asia, Weiss said. The attacks could be the work of a botnet — a network of computers illegally commandeered for sending spam and DDOS attacks.

“

Sitelutions.com their webhost says the site was burning 200 megabits per second of internet bandwidth ( Oops )

“We are honored that Alex selected us to host his site. With so much worldwide coverage, Alex needed a host that could support [the site’s intense bandwidth requirements,” said Paul Singh, Assistant Director of Operations at InfoRelay Online Systems, Inc.

Sitelutions has hosted The Million Dollar Homepage since September, 23, 2005. At that time, Mr. Tew’s site had grossed approximately $108,000. Since Sitelutions has hosted the site, Mr. Tew’s site has received up to 16 million hits per day, 500,000 unique visitors per day, and has utilized up to 200 megabits per second of Internet bandwidth.”

So when will the site be online?

sketchy testimonial of a seo company – fake seo testimonail,

We got a link exchange request from a new seo company, when we checked their site we saw something very funny, the testimonial which is listed on every page of their site is totally fake,

It reads,

“My experience with Guide SEO has been exceptional. Our website, www.xyz.com moved from virtually no page ranking and listing on the search engines to being in the top ten in many of our most important keywords. Daily traffic to the site has increased eightfold in just a few months. My experience with Guide SEO has been exceptional. I highly recommend the group.” Salmon.Mc Donald, President, e-learn, inc.

optimized xyz.com>?? look at that, xyz consulting owns xyz.com and they don’t do any seo,

e-learn, INC??? who owns e-learn inc? it belongs to passged.com and definitely salmon.Mc.donald is not the president, So how many seo companies have sketchy testimonials???

Very interesting.

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v7n seo contest – kicks off – keyword v7ndotcom elursrebmem to be ranked by may 15th 2006 for a prize money of 4000$,

v7n.com seo contest has started, we can see many webmasters and SEOs directly getting involved in this contest, we will be actively monitoring this contest to bring the latest updates and improvements,

v7ndotcom elursrebmem is the keyword phrase that needs to be ranked by may 15th 2006, The prize money is 4000$,

First prize also includes an apple IPOD,

The rules for the competition are as follows:1. In order to win the first prize, you must place first in Google (organic rankings) for the search term on May 15, 2006, noon, Pacific standard time. 2. Prizes for 2nd place through 5th place will be awarded based on web page placing in the corresponding positions in Google on May 15, 2006, noon, Pacific standard time. 3. For the purpose of this competition, indented listings in the SERPs will not be counted.4. In order to qualify for the prize, a web page must include one of the following:a. A link back to the V7N home page. The link can be in any manner you wish, any anchor text you wish, with nofollow, without nofollow, JavaScript, cloaked or fried up and served with potatoes. b. One of these Official V7n SEO Contest banners:
The banners may link to V7N, or not link to V7N. Linking the banner to any domain other than v7n will disqualify the contestant. Just to make this very clear, the banner may be unlinked. You do not need to link the banner graphic to v7n. For those who do not speak English: you do not need to link el-banner-o to v7n-o.c. The following text:We support v7n.com Please remember, in order for the web page to be compliant, it must contain at least one of the elements listed above. If datacenters show different results on the 15 of May, the winner will be declared solely at the discretion of V7N. If there are any disputes as to the validity of the winner declaration, V7N will be the sole arbiter.

Good luck everyone with the SEO contest v7ndotcom elursrebmem , wish everyone all the best,

Good day,
SEO Blog Team,