Monster.com Hacking Incident

Are you aware of the new interest hackers are having?

May not be a political one but certainly something to think about.

According to SMH.com ;
Monster.com waited five days to tell users its system had been hacked, in a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information for more than a million users, a company executive told Reuters on Thursday.
By the time the US job-matching website shut down the illegal operation, run from two server computers at a Web-hosting company in Ukraine, the names and confidential contact information of some 1.3 million job seekers had been stolen,

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Internet security is a concern for all now!!

Google : YouTube Ads : Now a reality

Google : YouTube Ads : Now a reality : Now be ready to see ads on your favourite videos.

According to InformationWeek,

Google is selling overlay advertising on a limited number of YouTube videos to a select group of partners at a cost of $20 per 1,000 viewers. Initial advertisers include BMW, Ford Models, and Warner Music Group.

The overlay ads appear 15 seconds into certain YouTube videos in a strip on the bottom fifth of the image frame, unless ad-blocking software is active. They last for 15 to 20 seconds.

Clicking on the overlay pauses video playback and opens a new Flash window atop the video window to play an expanded interactive video ad. The initial overlays and click-through windows can be removed by clicking a close button in the upper right-hand corner of the graphic.

Read the complete news here

Google : Translate : Voice local Search : Experiment Search

New releases from Google:

Google Transliterate
http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/All you have to do is type a word and hit enter or space bar.
+ Many indian languages supported
+ content can be copy-pasted in Gtalk, e-mail, word processors and other applications also
- Unable to type words like my name " Pravin " in Marathi

Google Voice Local Search
Google Voice Local Search (US Only Search) for local businesses using your voice, from any phone, for free.Dial 1-800-GOOG-411.

Experimental Search (US Only)
Check out Google's latest ideas

Search Now Extends from the search box

Taking a step further is measuring the search behaviour and user interest analysis, ComScore is now set to consider more than the text box and a search button. Search Engines ( Google, Yahoo, MSN ) are just a part of the overall search a person do on the internet.

According to Beta news,

ComScore is changing the way it records market share of search engine to reflect the changing ways consumers are interacting with sites.

The company had previously been counting the number of search queries to determine a search share. However, the company is now changing those methods so it can add figures from other types of search engines -- like those used on auction sites and retailers -- as well as sites like Wikipedia.

Microsoft doubles free email storage with Hotmail (5GB)

Microsoft Live Hotmail is Free for 5 GB now!

Taking advantage of the situation : Google implementing the paid space option : Microsoft think tank has something more to offer and that too is free !
Yes for the first time in History of email solutions, MSN Hotmail (Windows Live Hotmail) is offering a 5 GB capacity storage for those who want more out of the box ( inbox here). Previously it was just 2 GB which is currently the approximate offer from Gmail for free.

Gmail's decision to ask for a pay for more storage has lit a bulb in Microsoft camp and why not? Everyone wants more for free these days!!

Google's Paid Space Efforts

Now GMail has a paid option to those who want to store more...
Ever wonder when other companies like rediff, yahoo and indiatimes are switching to unlimited space, why Google is acting in other way ?

May be due to :
- It has already a lot of data to handle for his setup of servers
- It has some earning plans
- Something secret

Checkout the news at computerworld ,

Just hours after Microsoft Corp. rolled out its Skydrive online storage service on Thursday, Google Inc. unveiled pricing for shared online storage available to both Gmail and Picasa, the search giant's Web-based e-mail and photo services, respectively. The new storage space, which Google took pains to stress is in addition to the free allowance for each service (1GB for Picasa, 2.8GB for Gmail), is priced starting at $20 a year for another 6GB. A few users, however, took advantage of a $1/year-for-6GB price that Google listed during last-minute testing. "We've updated the price, and we're letting those users keep the difference," said Google spokesman Chris Schreiber."We've updated the price, and we're letting those users keep the difference," said Google spokesman Chris Schreiber. Other plans provide an extra 25GB for $75 annually, 100GB for $250, and 250GB for $500

Google + Airtel for Broadband in India

Google Enters the Mobile and Broadband Space in India with Airtel

A news from CIOL suggests,

Bharti Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS) and Google entered into a strategic alliance to work together in bringing web-based services to Airtel's broadband internet customers. As part of the agreement, Airtel will offer its broadband customers a world-class portal including Google Search for web-based queries, Google Gmail with 2 GB storage, Google Talk instant messaging/ chatting service, Google Docs and Spreadsheets so users can share and collaborate in real-time, and other services like Desktop & Internet Security Services (consisting of Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Firewall & Parental Control); Web SMS, On-demand gaming service and music download service, etc.

Mobile advertising is next hot thing to happen in India!!
Be better equipped..

New Domain Name Extensions Coming by 2008

How many domain extensions do you know about ?
Most Popular are the Top level domains or TLDs . They are .com /.net/org etc. In all there are more than 200 TLDs,including the two letter extensions like .in used for country specific websites . Here .in stands for India.

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers. These include domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .UK), as well as the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols. Computers use these identifiers to reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability.

According to the latest News from Reuters.com,

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the Internet's domain-name address system, said on Friday it was on track to allow an expanded number of domain names next year.

ICANN officials, wrapping up a week-long meeting in Puerto Rico, said their goal was to have in place by next year a permanent process to allow for new, generic top-level domain names, as well as to begin "internationalizing" domain names.

"With the progress we've made is San Juan, we're on track for the new applications and approvals policy to be ready for the start of 2008 and the introduction of new TLDs by mid-year," said Dr. Paul Twomey, president and chief executive of ICANN.

The California-based non-profit organization oversaw two previous extensions of Internet space: the addition of seven TLDS, including .info and .name in 2000, and the addition of another six starting in 2004.

It recently denied a petition to include .xxx as a TLD to be used for pornographic Web sites.

The group is also working to expand the number of characters that can be used to create Internet addresses, currently limited to the 26 Roman characters, 10 numerals and the hyphen. This would allow the use of Arabic, Chinese and a multitude of other characters to be used in domain names. "

Read the full Story at Reuters

Google Picture for Gmail

I got a mail from my friend.
Whats new in that?
Well its about Google Picture and to use in Gmail !!

STOP Words to Avoid : SEO technique

What are STOP words?
Those set of characters which are very very common on the web and are generally ignored by search engines during search.

Its recommended to avoid such stop words in meta tags : Title , Description and keywords on SEO organic technique of on-page optimization.

List of stop words:

about
after
all
also
am
an
and
another
any
are
as
at
be
because
been
before
being
between
both
but
by
came
can
come
could
did
do
does
each
else
for
from
get
got
has
had
he
have
her
here
him
himself
his
how
if
in
into
is
it
its
just
like
make
many
me
might
more
most
much
must
my
never
now
of
on
only
or
other
our
out
over
re
said
same
see
should
since
so
some
still
such
take
than
that
the
their
them
then
there
these
they
this
those
through
to
too
under
up
use
very
want
was
way
we
well
were
what
when
where
which
while
who
will
with
would
you
your
near
not
nearby
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Most Popular Keywords June 2007 India

India - Top Gaining Queries: June 2007

- reliance data card
- national institute of technology
- raveena tandon
- jordan
- bob marley
- amul
- allahabad
- mallika sheravat
- airdecan
- Shakira
- ashwariya
- tantra
- coconut
- dhoom3
- 3gp player

Source : Google Zeitgeist

Online Real Estate Boom !!

Grab your online space for racing ahead in real estate!!

Money is getting more attractions from online presence than that of the physical one(?)

Check this out,

Papers losing real estate ads to online

It's bad enough that a cratering housing market is leading to a slump in real estate advertising at newspapers, as a dreary series of earnings reports showed last week. What's worse is that a lot of that advertising may never come back to newspapers even if the real estate sector recovers. That's because a significant chunk of those advertising dollars are moving — you guessed, online.

Source : Yahoo News

Now after that if you need any help in online marketing and optimization do contact me !!