New ‘neighborhood watch’ from Google search

Google is on its way to build a new “traffic cop” layer into the search engine, it is made to help the internet users evade websites containing spyware and malicious code. When a user click on a link from Google’s search results to a site that is called to contain malware, they would soon be routed to a page that reads: “Warning – the site you are about to visit may harm you computer!”.

All the sites which Google recognizes as harmful are based on the reports from the StopBadware coalition that was set up Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet & Society and Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute, Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems also hold partnership in the scheme.

The StopBadware website said its proposal was incoming a “new phase” with Google introducing the warning system to its search engine. Although Google has already introduced some warnings for several malevolent websites, a number of sites lately identified by StopBadware did not yet trigger a warning from the search engine. Given the company itself has not yet issued a statement on the proposal, it is not yet clear when the function would be fully operational.

MSN Spaces struggles in beginning

First days of MSN’s improved Spaces blogging and social – networking service have been overwhelmed by troubles. The upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces blogging and social-networking service has been a revise in what can go incorrect with a commencement.

According to the representative Spaces blog, the first 12 hours after the launch were overwhelmed by deprived presentation problems, counting matters connected to e-mail issues, statistics pages not functioning and emoticons from prior Spaces versions not functioning.

The blog entry went on to guarantee Spaces users that its team was on top of the problems and that feedback was asked.

Yippee for Yahoo’s redesigning!

Yahoo Canada’s recently re-planned home page is choc full of features probable to plea the clients – mainly younger users. This home page was planned as a part of “the most inclusive redesign in the company’s history till now” – suggesting that it is much better than face lift. It is designed in such a way that the user can access to everything: mail, instant messaging, music, maps, news, blogs and others. The job done by Yahoo.ca design team is pretty decent in job balancing contents and aesthetics.

SEO Questions responded by Matt Cutts on Google Video

Google’s Matt Cutts spent some few moments answering the SEO questions on Google Video. The videos have come out well. According to Matt Cutts this video was done by him on the weekend to give little more detail and shade to the people for trying something new, he also added instead of writing two sentences, it is easy and interesting to listen to a video. The videos came out a bit rough because edition was not done and was directly uploaded, added Matt Cutts.
This video was taken with help of his video camera.

Google Begins Open Source Hosting Center

Recently, google has proclaimed that it will add a new feature to its services, i.e. open source project hosting. The latest site goes up against the most admired and popular source project hosting sites, including SourceForge.net. The novel service offers software storeroom and debugging amenities. On July 31 Google proclaimed the launch of a developer’s site to host open source projects.

According to the reports, this service of google is not yet ready and it is on the process for production use. This offer will surely become a popular with developers because it integrates with Google Groups, Gmail, Google Talk and other services.

Yahoo Appoints DB Guru to Vie with Google

Yahoo has appointed a database guru to study links between computer and human-aided search. An ex-professor of computer sciences at UW-Madison called Raghu Ramakrishnan has been hired now in Yahoo Research assisting the company to define its social search plan. Yahoo peeps into social search as a main part of its plan against Google. Yahoo has invested profoundly in social search with the gaining of social bookmarking site del.icio.us and photo sharing site Flickr. Yahoo has also developed a service called Yahoo Answers which matches user questions with user answers.

Yahoo will guard their Users by using Norton products

Yahoo! the internet giant has now planned to proffer Norton Internet security software to its users to make their online practice more protected. Yahoo! will offer a package which will comprise security applications developed by Symantec. This application will save the users from cyber threats like spam, spy ware and identity theft.

Users can also avail Norton Antivirus and Norton Personal Firewall for more safety for their customers. This is an important deal for Yahoo!, because it wants to challenge Microsoft’s entry in to protection application market by becoming a part of the industry themselves.

Yahoo Auctions Makes a Twist in Taiwan

Usually, the transactions done in Taiwan are not charged. But now, there is a twist, Yahoo Taiwan Inc. plans to charge users for victorious deals on its sale or auction site. So as to carry on the improvement of service, abilities and competitiveness, we require spending much more finance and capital in the auction site. We believe users comprehend the necessity to initiate charging for this service,” this was the statement made by the company on its website, for users.

This decision of the company to charge users may be quite risky, but then this may also be the right time. Because Rival eBay Inc. has set up its mind to move away its Taiwan site as it has signed the joint venture with local Internet auction operator PCHome Online Inc. in addition to it, Yahoo Taiwan also said that it’ll charge only sellers and not the buyers.

MSN India assists ‘Pirates’

‘The Pirates of the Caribbean Special’ can be simply accessed by fans on MSN India for the picture memorabilia.

MSN India presents its fans a crowd of fascinating features based on the film. Fans can relate with the character Billy Bones, by adding him onto Windows Live Messenger and communicate with him while he unfurls the story in the form of an attractive game.

Fans can also win gratis movie tickets by entering into a competition featured on movie website, a series of choose the best answers will be put on.

MSN India has a crowd of other crucial thing for lovable admirers and users alike. They can download exhibit theme packs consisting of glitters based absolutely on the movie, pictures, backgrounds, soundtracks and also have contact to multimedia video games with the features from the movie.

Motorola Cell Phones will soon have Yahoo Web Services

Yahoo has decided to budge advance into the hands of mobile phone users, after signing a latest transaction with the world’s number two handset maker – Motorola.

According to the internet giant’s vice president of business development, Bruce Steward ‘Yahoo Go for Mobile’, which comprises of Yahoo email, search, and address book functions into a only wireless application, will soon be obtainable on a “broad range of (Motorola) phones”, This will be the second deal of Yahoo with the second foremost mobile phone company – Motorola. At the commencement of the year, it declared a contract to pre-install the Yahoo Go software on a number of Nokia handsets in a variety of markets around the world.