November, 2006
Microsoft explains how to verify MSNbot
Microsoft has added some information, on how to identify the different types of their MSNbot Crawlers, on the Live Search’s WebLog. The different types of the MSNbot are: MSNBot Main web crawler (www.live.com) MSNBot-Media Images & all other media (images.live.com) MSNBot-NewsBlogs News and blogs (search.live.com/news) MSNBot-Products Products & shopping (products.live.com) MSNBot-Academic Academic search (academic.live.com) They [...]
Google Answers will be shut down
Google has announced, that their Answers service will be discontinued later this week. Answers has been online since early 2002, and contains answers on more than 260,000 questions. According to Google, all the Qs ans As, that have been posted within the last 4 years, will remain online. Seems, you now have to visit Yahoo!’s [...]
YouTube has announced cooperation with Verizon
YouTube/Google and Verizon Wireless have agreed on a cooperation, which will bring videos of YouTube.com on Verizon mobile phones. Starting from early december, the service will be availabe on Verizon’s VCAST-Portal, for a fee of $15 for a month or $3 per day. Verizon will do a preselection, to make sure that only videos will [...]
Cut out the Bank – Loan 2.0
Just came accross the finance co-op network of the UK company Zopa. Zopa is an internet business that introduces borrowers to private lenders and cuts out the bank. Since the credit sum can be distributed on several credit givers, the risk is reduced. So the system of Zopa is different to the loan system of the [...]
Porn site operator jailed for life
The operator of China’s largest pornographic Web site “Pornographic Summer” was jailed for life on Wednesday, state media reported. The judges at the Taiyuan Intermediate People’s Court in Shanxi province gave the life sentence to the 28 year old Chen Hui and handed down terms of 13 months to 10 years to eight others after they [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy the time with your family and friends. And here are some useful Thanksgiving facts form the U.S. Census Bureau: 256 million The preliminary estimate of the number of turkeys raised in the United States in 2005. That’s down 3% from 2004. The turkeys produced in 2004 weighed 7.3 billion pounds altogether and were valued at $3.1 [...]
Yahoo! and Answers.com cooperate
Answers Corporation today announced the launch of question and answers content from Yahoo! Answers on Answers.com. Answers.com users can view relevant questions and answers – both specific questions and topic-related categories – from Yahoo! Answers directly on Answers.com’s own pages. In addition, users can click directly to Yahoo! Answers to ask any question. Yahoo! Answers [...]
Google still is the most used search engine
According to the latest ranking of Nielsen/Netratings, an estimated 3.0 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 50 percent of all search queries conducted in October 2006. At the same time Yahoo! Search handled 1.456 billion requests, which is a plus 30% since October 2005. MSN/Windows Live Search has lost 8% and made [...]