Well truely speaking Digg was never in my strategy of search engine promtion. Whenever i try to use it i found y self in trouble, however i am a gr8 frnd of Digg and visit it on daily basis to see my as well as my client's competitors activity. One of the post by John , " We’ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community. These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content. We’ve added rel=”nofollow”to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity. This work was done in consultation with leading experts [+]

A disruption to Google's Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world on Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company. Google said the problems started early in the morning and were not resolved until approximately 2330 GMT. The problem prevented users from accessing Google email and stymied customers who use the popular software to sync their information with the Microsoft Outlook email programme. In Google's Gmail forum, users claiming to be in Italy, Germany, France and Taiwan, along with users from various states in the US, reported being unable to access Gmail. The snafu increased concerns about the safety and integrity of online data as more computer users migrate to using popular internet services offered by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Google is the third-most popular online email service in the US after Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail. The service suffered outages in February [+]

Another good write up by patni, Google bomb: The combined effort of multiple webmasters to change the Google search results usually for harmful effect. The “miserable failure” – George Bush, and “greatest living American” – Steven Colbert Google bombs are famous examples. It is an attempt to influence the page ranking of webpage within the google search engine by linking to it from many other sources.It is actually a practice intended to influence the ranking of particular pages in result returned by the google search engine There are real-life consequences when someone aims to destroy someone else on the Internet. It's all too easy to destroy another person on the Web. In cyber-slamming cases, victims are often intimidated into silence because they feel powerless and helpless, and their first instinct is to shut themselves up so that things don't "get worse." But [+]

Com Score a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study of the global search market showing that more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, representing a 41-percent increase versus year ago. Google Sites attracted significantly more searches than any other engine with 76.7 billion searches conducted, or 67.5 percent market share. Yahoo! Sites ranked second worldwide with 8.9 billion searches (7.8 percent share), followed closely by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8 billion searches (7.0 percent share). Most of the top search properties worldwide experienced significant growth in search query volume versus last year, with Russian search engine Yandex growing at the fastest rate (94 percent) among the top ten.

As  my blog reader knows that I am  into Internet marketing Training as well as into SEO Consultancy. So being as a trainer what i have started i give topics to all of my learning jockies and place them on blog so that rest of the batch can share the things. So here is one topic on Google Sand Box. What is Google SandBox ? The word SandBox in a general language defines as  a probation period for testing purpose. Website owners and search engine optimization professionals began to notice the Google Sandbox effect, real or imagined. Not everyone agrees that the Google Sandbox exists as a separate filter from other alleged Google filters. The Google Sandbox is very similar to a new website being placed on probation, and kept lower than expected in searches, prior to being given full value for [+]

Well i am late in publishing it, I have shifted to new house and got my Communications on ACM quite late. Firstly i would like to say thanks to ACM because this time i got my subscription magazine at my door. Coming to the point now... The web has become one of the primary ways people interact with their computers, connecting people with a diverse landscape of content, services, and applications. users can find new and interesting content on the Web easily, but this presents a security challenge: malicious Web site operators can attack users through their Web browsers. Browsers face the challenge of keeping their users safe while providing a rich platform for Web applications. Browsers are an appealing target for attackers because they have a large and complex trusted computing base with a wide network-visible interface. Historically, every browser at some [+]

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comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In July 2009, Americans conducted nearly 13.6 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.7 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 8.9 percent market share, a 0.5 percentage point gain versus June. July 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in June with 64.7 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (19.3 percent), and Microsoft Sites (8.9 percent). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 3.1 percent. comScore Core Search Report* July 2009 vs. June 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch Core Search Entity Search Queries (MM) Jun-09 Jul-09 Point Change Jul-09 vs. Jun-09 Total Core Search 100.0% 100.0% N/A Google Sites 65.0% 64.7% -0.3 Yahoo! Sites 19.6% 19.3% -0.3 Microsoft Sites 8.4% 8.9% 0.5 Ask Network 3.9% 3.9% 0.0 AOL LLC Network 3.1% 3.1% 0.0 * Based on the five major search [+]