MSN Search service live now – Feb 1st msn comes out of beta search officially

MSN search which has been in beta testing for a while is live now in the main MSN homepage, www.msn.com

Bill gates has released a letter on this, it states,

Greetings,

I would like to introduce you to the new MSN Search service and MSN.com home page.

Based on your feedback, we have designed the new MSN.com home page to be faster, simpler, and more organized. We’ve also made MSN Search more precise and powerful, so you can quickly find the information you’re looking for.

Our mission at Microsoft is to use the power of software to solve our customers’ toughest problems. Searching the Internet today is a challenge, and it is estimated that nearly half of customers’ complex questions go unanswered. That’s why we’re proud of our new MSN Search service, a simple and powerful tool that helps you find the answers you want from sources as diverse as Web pages, images, news headlines, music downloads, and even files on your PC.

Input from millions of our customers – including me – was crucial to our efforts to make MSN Search the best it can be. If you have not already tried it, I encourage you to visit www.msn.com and type in your question. We’d love to hear what you think, and I promise that we will continue to improve MSN based on your feedback.

Sincerely,

Bill Gates

Source: specials.msn.com/letter/billgates.html

Google is now a ICANN credited domain registration company

Google Inc has been included in the Icann credited domain registration list,

google is listed number 895

Check this page for more information,

www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids

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