DMCA: The New Blackhat for Yahoo! search

UPDATE:
The site has since been relisted by Yahoo!, as described here:
Platinax relisted by Yahoo!
You can have other people’s websites easily removed from Yahoo! search.
Simply by stating a claim of copyright infringement has been filed with regards to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), you can have a competitor or innocent site dropped entirely from Yahoo! […]

Backlogue almost cleared and back to blogging

This blog had been poorly updated of late. This is primarily because of the extensive disruption raised from moving house in April. This was further compounded by existing bookings to a couple of conferences across May to June, such as Threadwatch and SES London. The overall result was a massive backlogue of work that I’m […]

SES London

The Search Engine Strategies conference in London I approached with a number of expectations, and was left disappointed in key areas, though I learned a lot more than I expected to.
Networking
The main disappointment was the lack of networking - space inside the venue itself just didn’t lend itself very well to networking opportunities, and although […]

Threadwatch meet

The Threadwatch meet at Stansted was small and informal affair, involving just over two dozen webmasters.
The whole gathering was set in the grounds of a lovely country park hotel near Standsted, and it was great for us all to meet one-another face to face, and simply chill-out.
There’s a little I can say about […]

Paedophilia on Google Images?

I was disturbed by a recent discovery, while searching for stock images for the news blog.
If you do a search on Google Images for dvd, with language and adult filters off, the third listing appears to be for a site promoting paedophilia material. It’s not hard to spot - there’s a naked pre-pubescent girl in […]

Google to crack down on AdSense publishers?

According to Jen at Jensense, GoogleGuy (Matt Cutts) announced at a WebMasterWorld conference that if you click on the “Ads by Google” link on sites you believe are spamming, and include the keyword “spamreport” in the feedback form, then the report will be sent to the AdSense team for review of potential violations of AdSense […]

Microsoft Search Live

Here’s an interesting part of the MSN network I’d not found before: MSN Search Live
It provides a list of most searched for terms for the day, overall most common - and even pits two related keyphrases against one another in a “Duel”, in which you get to see the search history from the past couple […]

Israeli companies infect one another with spyware

Industrial espionage has taken on a whole new meaning - at least, according to a report at Viruslist: Trojan tripped in Operation Horse Race:

Tel Aviv police arrested a number of executives from some of the leading companies in Israel. Eight senior executives and eleven private investigators are being held; it’s alleged that they planted a […]

News roundup 1

Economy
The big news during the week was the rejection of the EU constitution by French voters, closely followed by the Dutch rejection of the same treaty. This has led to the UK delaying the implementation of their own referendum on the topic.
The Euro fell both before and after the poll results were known, in a […]