Webmaster Level: All A little over six months ago we released a new malware diagnostic tool in Webmaster Tools with the help of Lucas Ballard from the anti-malware team. This feature has been a great success; many of you were interested to know if Google had detected malicious software in your site, and you used the tool’s information to find and remove that malware and to fix the vulnerabilities in your servers.
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Updated malware feature in Webmaster Tools
Via All About Symbian , The Nokia N86 upgrades the firmware to v30.009. Version 30.009 is described by Nokia as a ‘Maintenance’ update: includes the latest Ovi Maps 3.3 (with free navigation) includes the sharing of location via Facebook Nokia Messaging improvements and fixes (apparently) RealPlayer interface tweaked the usual minor fixes and improvements (v30 seems rock solid so far) The Nokia N86 is a Flash Lite enabled phone. Get more news about Flash Lite devices to visit Adobe Flash Lite .
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Nokia N86 upgrades the firmware to v30.009
Webmaster Level: All Today, as announced on the Official Google Blog, we’ve taken an additional step to improve access to Google webmaster services. Parallels , one of the leading providers of control panel software to hosting companies, has integrated Google Services for Websites into Parallels Plesk Panel , used by millions of website owners globally to manage their websites. If you use Plesk for managing your hosting and website services, you can easily configure Webmaster Tools, Custom Search, Site Search, Web Elements and AdSense for your website right from within Plesk
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Webmasters – configure Google services at your hosting panel
Webmaster Level: All We’ve got good news for site owners who are frequent users of the Top search queries feature in Webmaster Tools : we’re now providing more detailed data for each individual search query. We previously just reported the average position at which your site’s pages appeared in the search results for a particular query. Now you can click on a given search query in the Top search queries report to see a breakdown of the number of impressions and the amount of clickthrough for each position that your site’s pages appeared at in the search results associated with that query
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More data and charts in Top Search Queries
Webmaster Level: All Anticipating the start of the season of barbecues and potlucks, we’ve added recipes as our newest rich snippets format. This means that for certain sites with recipe content, Google users will see quick facts when these recipe pages show up as part of the search results.
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Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets
I go with Recon. M-95, extra ammo, binoculars, and that cool revolver I unlocked yesterday. Let’s do this. I drop down through the air, my parachute billowing and slowing my descent. I look down and notice a vacant tank, something Russian , like a T-90 or something, just waiting for someone to drive it. Unfortunately, another soldier, SuperPhat420 by his blue name hanging over his head, also notices it and starts steering his parachute towards it. Since he was quite a bit lower than me he gets there first. As he enters the tank its engine rumbles to life and he guns it. The big machine lurches forward, but I had timed it correctly and make it in just in time. I don’t mind not driving though. Gunning is preferable since, when the tank is inevitably destroyed, you can always blame it on the driver. I scope around.
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A BFBC2 Moment
The Nokia E63 , Nokia E66 , Nokia E71 upgrade the firmware to v410.21.010.The three Nokia phones are Flash Lite 3 enabled phones. The following is the changelog list: NEW FUNTIONALITIES: Following baselines/functionalities have been upgraded
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Nokia E71, E66 and E63 upgrade the firmware to v410.21.010
Webmaster Level: All You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web . As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests
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Using site speed in web search ranking
Webmaster Level: All We’ve been hearing this question for many years from webmasters. That’s why we built features such as the Safe Browsing API , the malware review form , and our Malware details Labs feature .
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When and why was my site flagged for malware? Learn in near real-time!
Today, in continuation of my impromptu celebration of the end of all things, I want to discuss the many different images of the end portrayed in movies. So many times over the years a new movie is released that *gasp* is about the end of the world as we know it. And I gotta tell you, I fall for it ever time. I guess there is just something fascinating about the idea of the destruction of our many accomplishments. Well, fascinating enough to make movies about it. Many, many movies in fact. The first post-apocalyptic movie I remember seeing was The Road Warrior staring a very young Mel Gibson. I know technically Mad Max was first but, lets be honest, that movie was pretty boring. I can hear people disagreeing with me already on that point, but I am gonna stick with it. Anyway, for me the post-apocalypse meant long desert roads, punks with mohawks and football armor, a sawed-off shotgun, and Mel Gibson looking like a freaking badass, even when he gets all messed and limps around with one eye swollen shut. And the car! A modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe (an Australian car) complete with a blower and side pipes. My blood starts pumping just thinking about it. I even had a Matchbox car that I used to pretend was Max’s, although it was actually a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a huge and unrealistic blower sprouting from the hood. I can’t tell you how many times I recreated (with Matchbox cars) the many different scenes from The Road Warrior. Yeah, I loved it that much. The next movie that comes to mind dealing with the end of the world is The Terminator, with my all-time favorite action star, Arnold Schwarzenegger. As everyone knows (if you have never seen this movie, or any of the sequels, shame on you) the end of the world in The Terminator is brought about by mankind itself. In what would become a very popular storyline, mankind creates artificial intelligence which then gains sentience and immediately begins the eradication of humanity. I mean, it really is the only logical thing to do. And sentient robots are, of course, completely logical beings. In The Terminator, and all of the sequels (except the last one), my favorite parts were always the flashbacks (or flash-forwards…time travel makes my head hurt) where the fight against the machines were depicted. For years I wished for a movie about the actual war with the machines, not the war between two machines that were sent back in time to the present. Well, I got my wish finally with Terminator Salvation. Unfortunately, as often happens with big budget, over-hyped movies, I thought it kinda sucked. I mean, after watching the trailers I thought the movie was gonna be mostly about John Connor, not some other guy who, surprise surprise, turns out to be a machine himself. If I were to judge on acting skills, I would have said that Christian Bale was the robot. I did think that the CG Arnold that appears near the end of the movie was pretty cool, especially since he seemed so much bigger than Arnold ever was. My favorite part of the entire series, however, was at the end of Terminator 3 when the nuclear war actually happens. In my mind that made all three movies up to that point kind of pointless since the nuclear holocaust they were trying to prevent happened anyway.
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The End Of The World According To Movies
Webmaster Level: All Sitemaps are an invaluable resource for search engines. They can highlight the important content on a site and allow crawlers to quickly discover it. Images are an important element of many sites and search engines could equally benefit from knowing which images you consider important
Photo by Pablo Abuliak Maria Bernal, award winning photographer from Austin, TX, wanted a brand new brand and a new look, and she wanted her new business cards to be SEXY. She wanted them to speak subtly about lingerie, mystery, outrageous and over-the-top glamor and just stop people in their tracks when she handed them one.
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Maria Bernal Photography | Sexy, Moxie, Foxy Black Foil Stamped, Edge Painted, Letterpress Business Cards
All these thoughts about a Zombie Apocalypse have got me thinking. Of course, the fact that the mini-series The Stand was on the other day might also have something to do with it. Plus I watched a teaser trailer for the up and coming Fallout game New Vegas. Ah, the end of the world. There’s nothing better to dedicate my thoughts to on a lazy day off than the end of the world.
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Top 10 Things You Would Need To Survive The Post Apocalypse
Webmaster level: All Change can happen—sometimes, as we saw in our previous post on URL removals , you may completely block or remove a page from your site. Other times you might only change parts of a page, or remove certain pieces of text. Depending on how frequently a page is being crawled, it can take some time before these changes get reflected in our search results.
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URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page
Webmaster Level: All We try to communicate with webmasters in lots of different places. For example, when we send representatives to conferences we’re happy to participate in public site clinics where we share best practices on how to improve the crawlability and site architecture of websites suggested by the audience.
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A word on site clinics
Webmaster Level: Advanced A few weeks ago, we introduced a new way of verifying site ownership , making it easy to share verified ownership of a site with another person. This week, we bring you another new way to verify. Verification by DNS record allows you to become a verified owner of an entire domain (and all of the sites within that domain) at once
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DNS Verification FTW
Webmaster level: All There’s a lot of content on the Internet these days . At some point, something may turn up online that you would rather not have out there—anything from an inflammatory blog post you regret publishing, to confidential data that accidentally got exposed. In most cases, deleting or restricting access to this content will cause it to naturally drop out of search results after a while.
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URL removal explained, Part I: URLs & directories
Webmaster Level: Intermediate In our recent post on the Google Online Security Blog , we described our system for identifying phishing pages. Of the millions of webpages that our scanners analyze for phishing, we successfully identify 9 out of 10 phishing pages. Our classification system only incorrectly flags a non-phishing site as a phishing site about 1 in 10,000 times, which is significantly better than similar systems
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Will the Real <Your Site Here> Please Stand Up?
Museum takes new look at air, water, land and life LOS ANGELES ? Watch maggots munch on liver. Stand in the path of a flash flood
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California Science Center near downtown LA takes $165 million, hands-on approach to ecosystems
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Can’t You See I’m Busy … Playing Games?