Google to leave Australia over ‘evil’ filter
By Sam PascuaWhat a great April fools article and at the same time an important political message agasint the attack on Australian freedoms over the net by the Rudd Government and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
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(Credit: ZDNet.com.au)
Google will close its Australian operations, effectively blacklisting the country in response to the Federal Government’s “evil” plan to filter the internet.
Goooone
ZDNet.com.au has confirmed that the search engine giant will close its doors on Australia for good, effective immediately, marking the end of four years of its operation here and a long-running battle with the government over its plan to filter the internet.
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Google to stop supporting ie6
By Sam PascuaHere is a new article from IDG News Service.
Google will phase out support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 Web browser starting in March, the company said Friday.
“Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites,” Rajen Sheth, Google Apps senior product manager, wrote in a blog post Friday.
The announcement comes more than two weeks after Google reported that its servers had been the target of attacks originating in China. Those attacks targeted a vulnerability in IE 6, for which Microsoft has since issued a fix.
Support for IE6 in Google Docs and Google Sites will end March 1, Sheth said in the post. At that point, IE6 users who try to access Docs or Sites may find that “key functionality” won’t work properly, he said.
Sheth suggested that customers upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Google Chrome 4.0 or Safari 3.0, or more recent versions of those browsers.
According to StatCounter, IE6 has 18 percent market share among browsers.
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SEM Strategies vs. SEM Tactics
By Sam PascuaThere are many people in this world who still don’t believe in the power of the business vocabulary. Experts argue about the importance of building your knowledge about business terms and how they represent the true core of understanding the development of your business across its various stages. This fact is especially important in the case of business men entering newer business fields like Search Engine Marketing. The point here is that you can’t afford to make a faux pas when you are communicating with your clients and management about strategies and risk mis-coordination. The problem is compounded as the project grows in size and every aspect requires more attention to detail.
Read moreSEMs mostly get confused about two terms: SEM strategies and SEM tactics. It has been found that 90% of the marketers tend to define strategies as tactics or vice-versa. The definitions of these terms clear the confusion to an extent. A strategy is defined as a “long-term action plan for achieving a goal”, whereas tactics are described as “near term actions taken to solve specific problems or accomplish specific goals” (investorwords.com).
Search Engine Optimization for the Ultimate Three
By Sam PascuaGetting one’s website a good ranking on one of the three biggest search engines, namely Yahoo!, Google and MSN is a very uphill task. The whole job is very overwhelming. Getting the website highly ranked in all three is even more intimidating. To put it straight, they are three diverse search engines with three dissimilar algorithms and three unusual set of policies. So the final frontier which an entrepreneur needs to conquer is to get his/her website a good ranking in all the three of them. And this might not sound good if you have your own website, but there are lots of people out there who are doing this very aggressively and that too with a lot of success. The main endeavor is to find out ways through which a website can get good rankings.
All three of them use completely atypical algorithms but the end result remains the same. The aim is to present the person who is searching the most excellent results accessible. This is the universal actuality which vehemently instigates an SEO to get a website ranked highly on all the famous search engines. It is known that there is an assortment of aspects in the whole system that offers extensive variations in context to each of these factors. The matter of concern is that the presence of these variations has a huge limitation. This implies that vigilance is imperative without which it is very unlikely that things would work out.
Read moreBing Bing: Microsoft's search engine unexpectedly live, but not Live
By Sam Pascua
Got Bing if you want it! (with apologies to the Rolling Stones)
If you fancied using Microsoft‘s new search engine, it’s unexpectedly live at http://www.bing.com/ . (According to Microsoft, it was being opened at the SMX search marketing conference in Seattle on Wednesday.)
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