Google’s AdSense program has been the subject of trouble from a Trojan, an antivirus firm BitDefender has announced. According to BitDefender, the virus, named Trojan.Qhost.WU, alters infected computers’ hosts file and redirects the Google AdSense link to a various address. A virus analyst Attila-Mihaly says “This is a serious situation that damages users and webmasters alike”.

“Users of adsense are affected as the advertisements and/or the linked sites might contain malicious code, which a very likely situation is given that they are endorsed using malware in the first place.” Meanwhile, webmasters are hit because the Trojan grabs the viewers and, as a result, a possible source of revenue from their websites, he added.

Responding to the situation, Google commented: “We have cancelled customer accounts that display ads redirecting users to malicious sites or that advertise a product violating our software principles,” Reuter’s reports.

Google is coming up with a method of sharing knowledge called Google “Knol”. It is particularly designed to permit users to contribute content/articles on any topic of their interest. Other users would be permitted to rate, comment, or edit on the content/articles. This sounds like Google is a latter-day Wikipedia with a new name called Google Knol. However, Google says that a Knol is a “unit of knowledge,” which is in turn an effort to gather and share human knowledge.

The most remarkable part of Google Knol for the users is that it permits ads to appear alongside the content and they could get a share of revenue (Google does not mention the share ratio) in case of any. Google is providing all the tools to write this, and host the content and so on, so that writers could think just on the content. Then, ad revenues those pages shaped can be shared.

Google is soon coming up with a new feature known as “Ad Review Center”, which is particularly designed for giving more control to the web publishers who monetize their web sites with Adsense. The feature might be out in upcoming few months. It will permit web publisher review ads placement-targeted to the website, which would make sure those ads are applicable to your site’s users. When you pick up the option for Ad review center, at first you would see all placement-targeted ads currently targeted to your site and after few days you would be able review placement-targeted ads that have previously run on your site. On the other hand, you have an option of blocking the ad from appearing again if the ads are not applicable to your users.

Recently, Google had by mistake disabled some Gmail accounts when trying to deal with spammers. Some of the users posted this issue on Gmail Help Discussion Forum, However, a Google staffer, who checks and posts messages on Gmail Help forum, recognized the existence of such occurrence on behalf of the company.

Recognizing the problem, Google stated that their efforts to put off breach of the Terms of Use (policy) caused a number of users to be wrongly identified as spammers or other violent users. Several hours later, Google Guide confirmed that things were back to standard and the accounts that were disabled have regained access without any data loss.

Yes, Google is yet a search engine giant among all other search engine sites, as it took over a 58.5 percent share of the search market in last October all over United States. The statement given by ComScore, an Internet ranking sites states, Google has attained 1.5 share points vs. the previous month. Alternatively, Yahoo again the well-liked search engine gets the second place with 22.9 percent, followed by Microsoft sites with 9.7 percent, Ask Network is yet at 4.7 percent and Time Warner Network is an owner of 4.2 percent of shares. Month of October saw a 12 percent boost vs. September in Americans searching online, carrying the sum number of searches to 10.5 billion with the hub search engines.

Google, yahoo and MSN search engines had been frowning on affiliate URLs for some time. Lot of affiliate sites got booted out of search engines over a period of time. Affiliate Urls are itself not a problem unless the site runs by itself and doesn’t depend on affiliate Urls and affiliate income. Any good quality site can have affiliate URLs or any ads like adsense etc.
But affiliate only sites and MFA ( Made for Adsense ) sites don’t work anymore. SO if you are planning to start sites like these we recommend not to do it.

SEO Blog team.

Microsoft’s recent update is to eliminate those irritating “click to activate” buttons you see when you open some of web sites using Internet Explorer. Microsoft has now approved the expertise from Eolas, taking off the ‘click to activate’ obligation in Internet Explorer.

The IE update would hit the market in kind of a progressing deployment. According to IEBlog – “The initial chance would be with an elective preview release, known as the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview, accessible in December 2007 by means of the Microsoft Download Center. Additionally this change would be made part of the next pre-release versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. After giving people sufficient time to arrange for this change, we’ll roll this behavior into the IE Cumulative Update in April 2008, and all customers who install the update would get the change.”

The search engine giant Google has recently integrated AOL’s most popular AIM Instant-Messaging-Service in Gmail’s web based email customer. Since February 2006, Gmail has its own chat service, but now users of Gmail will be able to connect to AIM via drop-down menu on Gmail’s web page. Now Gmail users can simply sign into AIM via ‘Set Status Here’ menu, Gmail chat and AIM contacts will be displayed on the same menu. For now, Google said that this feature will be available in English; later AIM access will also be available in other language versions also. Google also added that, they are always looking for new and useful ways to help Google users to connect with their family, friends and coworkers.

Google will finally offer programmers access to API for its Trends analysis tool, which will allow users to insert the tool in their applications or the users can even download the data from the application for personal use also. Google’s Vice President of search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer said that the company’s likes for APIs and Trends users’ requests will be able to insert data culled from Trends in a spreadsheet and have the ability to manipulate it. For instance, users will be able to develop spreadsheet comparing Trends data from previous and present years. Marketers can also customize their own Trends analyses to find new patterns, ideally to better target users with services and products.

This week Yahoo signed the contact securing and expanding Sony’s license for video on demand. In doing this Yahoo has as well added an assortment of music videos from Sony, which you can choose from Yahoo’s music catalog. The music videos from Sony would be on hand for anyone who makes sure of Yahoo and Yahoo’s off network branded video player. If that was not actually sufficient Yahoo users could place together audio recordings from Sony in their user generated audiovisual content.