SearchDay | PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning?; How the Wal-mart Grinch Stole Black Friday Link Love; Yahoo Adds Search Assist to Image Search; and more.

County's Web site may be getting a face lift
Aside from a few animated Tennessee state flags, there are not many design frills on Madison County's Web site.

Opera previews next version of desktop browser
Opera Software is giving developers and users an early look at its Opera 10 browser, which features a new version of its rendering engine that the company says offers 30 percent improvement in the speed of loading Web pages. An alpha version of Opera 10 is available online . The rendering engine, called Opera Presto 2.2, is the foundation of all of Opera's browsers, including the ...

Technology focus of conference
PERRYSBURG TOWNSHIP --Web pages, Second Life, 3-D animation and computer forensics are just a few of the information technology areas that more than 250 girls in grades seven through 10 recently explored as part of an interactive professional conference at Owens Community College's Toledo-area and Findlay-area campuses.

Microsoft preps IE 8 for the web-challenged
Hipsters not allowed Internet Explorer 8 will feature a user-generated list of "compatible" web sites, after trials found many ordinary surfers and major web sites can't work with Microsoft's next browser.?

Cloud Computing Journal: Tooling Up for Web 2.0
Most of the discussion surrounding Web 2.0 applications revolves around the way it revolutionized end users' interaction with applications and with other users. An area that is sometimes left out of the discussion is the impact Web 2.0 had on the developers who are actually building these applications. Creating Web 2.0 applications involves a variety of technologies and standards from UI ...

YourSeason.com, The Sun-Times News Group?s Local Prep Sports, Announces Strong Reader Response Pushes Monthly Web Site ...
Hales Franciscan vs. De La Salle. Hinsdale South vs. Hinsdale Central. Rolling Meadows vs. Prospect. These were just some of high school football?s favorite matchups this fall ? and, some of many locations for the rollout of the newly improved and enhanced Sun-Times News Group high school sports Web site, YourSeason.com.

YouTube and Ning Just Say No to Sex
A quick Google search for ?sex? returns a whopping 67 million pages. A search for ?porn? turns up more than 18 million pages. As popular and ubiquitous as sex is on the Internet, it would seem like a natural fit for Web-based businesses looking to attract page views and revenue.

Yahoo To Offer Page Summaries Instead on Search Results
According to an article appeared on PCWorld earlier today, the Indian Yahoo! team would be developing an innovative search technology that, in response to a search query, will offer users summaries of web pages rather than the usual list of links and text tokens from the page itself.

Microsoft seeks 'community' help to make IE8 Standards Mode work out
If users install their first Internet Explorer 8 updates, and they notice their favorite Web pages look like scrambled egg soup, will they blame the browser? That's the dilemma Microsoft is facing as it cautiously embraces "Web standards."

MasterNewMedia Web Traffic Stats, Authority, Audience Metrics: November 2008
Want to know more about MasterNewMedia? In this monthly web traffic and demographics report, we showcase all of the most relevant data, trends and indicators for the number of visitors, page views and reader profiles collected across many of the major online traffic and trend tracking services. The web traffic statistics for the past month of November, show no strong changes in terms of ...

Opera previews next version of desktop browser
Opera Software is giving developers and users an early look at its Opera 10 browser, which features a new version of its rendering engine that the company says offers 30 percent improvement in the speed of loading Web pages.

'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox
snydeq writes "Researchers have discovered a new type of malware that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox. The malware, dubbed 'Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A,' sits in Firefox's add-ons folder, registering itself as 'Greasemonkey,' the well-known collection of scripts that add functionality to Web pages rendered by Firefox. The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than ...

A tangled web of deceit
Fleur Doidge, CRN , Friday 5 December 2008 at 14:43:00 The fraud economy has its own channels and IT providers must be increasingly alert, writes Fleur Doidge Piracy does not only happen off the coast of Somalia, and fraud does not only occur when you forget to collect your bank statements. Increasingly, crimes are taking place online, and all providers of technology need to ...

My Underwear Is the Future of the Internet Economy [The Gawker Pin-up]
Recently, we re-introduced Gawker Pin-Ups, in which we scour the web (and your Facebook pages) for hottt photos of people in (or vaguely around) the media. And I was thinking: why fight the system...

'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark
Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a statement in the book's own back cover blurb suggests where it ...

Cabinet papers on the web
More than half a million pages of government documents are available for the very first time on the internet. Thanks to a project launched by The National Archives on its website, Cabinet papers from a 60-year period have been digitised and can now be accessed for free by the public.

Online Money: Fidelity Web site redesign puts financial news front and center
BOSTON (AP) ? Fidelity Investments is joining the rush to satisfy investors? growing appetite for news about financial market turmoil.

Poll: How do you prefer thumbnails for photo galleries be made?
Thumbnails are images that are smaller than the full-sized image. They allow Web pages to load more quickly because the images are smaller. And there are many ways to make...

Idaho's state quarter voted 'least liked' on Web site
A Web site has affirmed what Idahoans have suspected for two years: Idaho?s state quarter is for the birds.