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Welcome to the Monday, February 2 SearchEngineWorld Daily News Tracker featuring news of Yahoo relinquishing most of its display advertising lead over Google, Google Gmail experiencing spam filter trouble, former Yahoo employee Scott Moore returning to Microsoft as U.S. content head, Facebook market research database plans in doubt, and more.


Lane R Ellis      
Lead Editor,
SearchEngineWorld

 5:06 pm on Feb. 2, 2009 (utc 0)

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Yahoo said to relinquish display advertising lead over Google: Advertiser Perception poll

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=134211
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/advertisers-say-google-as-good-for-display-ads-as-yahoo-yhoo

Google Gmail experiences spam filter trouble

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-mornings-spam-filter-issue.html

Fastest growing Web categories for 2008 job search, women, coupons: comScore

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2712

Google Book Search: Millions of Books, but No Card Catalog

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/technology/internet/02link.html

Search Service on Google Briefly Fails

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/technology/internet/01google.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123350721174136793.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50U2JZ20090202
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/01/googles-human-error/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7862840.stm
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/02/what-is-stopbadwareorg/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/02/googles_55_minute_crisis.html
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/01/google-broke-the-internet-malware-detector-went-haywire.ars
http://mashable.com/2009/01/31/google-blames-human-error-for-wordlwide-malware-alert/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10154384-93.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/31/google_malware_snafu/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10154371-16.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aOqXYR12cFX4
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2235522/google-glitch-puts-surfers
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000216
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2009/02/google_slashes.html
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090131/tc_afp/usitinternetgoogle
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/human_error_causes_googles_epi.php
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/how-google-flagged-the-whole-web-as-harmful-goog
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Human-Error-Caused-Google-Glitch/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=99484
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/31/for-40-minutes-this-morning-the-internet-was-all-spam/
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-31-n84.html
http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/31/google-blacklist-internet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=12036
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3838915.htm

Google updates privacy policy

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/01/update-to-our-privacy-policy.html

How to export a data backup from Google's Web services

http://mashable.com/2009/02/02/google-backup/

Semantic cloud API Web site created using Google Code infrastructure

http://code.google.com/p/unifiedcloud/
http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/02/semantic-cloud-abstraction.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10154161-240.html

Black hats said to poison Google video search" Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/02/google_video_search_poisoned/

Former Yahoo Scott Moore Heads Back to Microsoft as U.S. Content Head

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090130/exclusive-former-yahoo-scott-moore-heads-back-to-microsoft-as/

Google: "We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data"

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_were_not_doing_a_good_job_with_structured_data.php

AOL announces FreeCreditReport.com ad deal

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/sad-aol-puts-out-press-release-announcing-freecreditreportcom-ad-deal-twx

Google asks webmasters: Open redirect URLs -- Is your site being abused?

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-redirect-urls-is-your-site-being.html

Google Earth, Google Ocean: mysteries of the seafloor are mapped for the first time

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/01/google-earth-oceans-project

Search Engine Roundtable asks: Is Google switching to AJAX search result pages?

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/019319.html
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2009/01/30/google-web-search-goes-completely-ajax/

WEB / OTHER

Twitter stream Media Is Thriving: Somebody Believes the Media Is Thriving

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/somebody-believes-the-media-is-thriving/

Nerve.Com Kicks Babble.com Parenting Site Out of the Nest

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/sexy-nervecom-kicks-parenting-site-out-of-the-nest/

Facebook market research database plans in doubt

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4413483/Networking-site-cashes-in-on-friends.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/02/newsflash-facebook-not-cashing-in-on-friends/
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-facebook-shows-off-polls-in-davos-new-business-model-or-just-cool-toy/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/01/facebook-seeks-to-exploit-user-information
http://mashable.com/2009/02/02/facebooks-monetization/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10154241-2.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/01/facebook-polls-bring-reality-to-davos-elite/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_sells_your_data.php
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/facebooks-plan-to-stop-running-like-a-non-profit
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=99471
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=134239

Gorp.com offers guide to parks, outdoor activities, gear

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-tr-webbuzz1-2009feb01,0,2705389.story

Adobe and Apple face hurdles for Flash support on Apple iPhone

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/false-hopes-ado.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a19HIOO8r_6c
http://www.pcworld.com/article/158712/flash_on_iphone_hopes_dashed.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10154123-37.html
http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/developer/iphone_still_has_no_flash.html
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/02/he-saidshe-said-flash-not-coming-to-iphone/
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/31/adobe-and-apple-working-on-flash-for-iphone/
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/02/01/adobe-still-working-hard-on-flash-for-the-iphone.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/confirmed_apple_and_adobe_coll.php
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/adobe-ceo-collaborating-with-apple-to-get-flash-on-the-iphone
http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/apple-and-adobe-team-up-to-bring-flash-to-the-iphone/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/01/adobe-and-apple-working-to-bring-flash-to-the-iphone-weve-heard-that-before/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=1089

What the Web looks like after turning the ads Off: Wall Streen Journal

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/30/turning-the-ads-off/

UK retailer Woolworths to be reborn online

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5111TE20090202
http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2235528/woolworths-goes-online
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/item/64139/254/5/3
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/02/woolworths-online-shop-direct

Broadband link to U.S. jobs exaggerated: experts

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE50T6IP20090130

Study: Apple iPhone leading the pack in mobile phone gaming

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/study-iphone-leading-the-pack-in-mobile-phone-gaming.ars
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000160

Snipt eases developer source code sharing on Twitter

http://www.snipt.org/
http://mashable.com/2009/01/30/snipt/

Silicon Valley fixture, former Netscape executive Mike Homer dies at 50

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10154273-92.html
http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090202/thanks-for-the-ride-mike/
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090201/farewell-to-mike-homer/

Landrush for .tel domain names set to begin

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2235520/dot-tel-landrush-begins

Quince launches free Silverlight-based user interface and experience tool

http://quince.infragistics.com/
http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2009/02/quince_explores.html

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikianswers

http://answers.wikia.com/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/jimmy-wales-quietly-launches-wikianswers/

Pew Research Center unveils blog measurement index with Project for Excellence in Journalism

http://journalism.org/commentary_backgrounder/bloggers_ponder_every_aspect_obama%E2%80%99s_inauguration
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/pew-pulling-at-straws-to-measure-the-blogosphere/

WPP's GroupM ‘Leapfrogs’ Industry Concensus, Declares Its Online Ad Data ‘Confidential’

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-groupm-leapfrogs-industry-concensus-declares-its-online-ad-data-confide/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=99481
(related: GroupM lays off 93)
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=99495

Vulnerabilities uncovered in OpenX ad server

http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/content/patches/multiple_serious_vulnerabilities_in_openx_ad_server.html

How Social Media is Changing PR and How to Adapt with It

http://www.expertsem.com/2009/01/30/pr-and-social-media/

U.K.'s BT wants to monitor user online activity

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/02/privacy-civil-liberties

 


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