nb1 writes:  

Google is expected to unveil a tool that measures Internet use to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach their target audiences, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The measurement tool, which will be offered free to advertisers and their agencies, will compete with services offered by established leaders Nielsen and ComScore. While those services base their estimations on selective surveys or customer panels, the newspaper said, Google's results will be based on data collected from Web servers, providing a deeper and broader picture of Internet behavior.

By giving away the new tool, Google could attract more advertising business. The announcement follows one last week about Google Trends' new service, which lets people type in specific domains and compare basic traffic information about any .com site using nothing more than organic user searches.

Included are daily traffic numbers in users (sent from Google search), where the users are coming from, and related sites that were either searched for or visited in that same session. After news of the planned tool hit the Web on Monday, ComScore shares fell $1.69, or 6.1 percent, to $26 after-hours trading. Nielsen is a privately owned company.


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southern writes:  

In olden days, when you clicked on an e-mail link in your browser, it had to have an e-mail client to launch. That method doesn't work if you use a service such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail as your main account.

Firefox 3 to the rescue. Watch our video on how to do this tip, then come back here for the written steps.

Go to Tools and options (Firefox and Preferences on a Mac).

Choose Applications.

Search "mailto".

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nukeevangelist writes:  

HTTrack [click] is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet

get it and help at forums -
travel over and get free code - share your ideas and get help

NB1 writes:  

If you aren’t sure, you will soon be able to download a tool from Google that will tell you once and for all if they are. If ISP’s aren’t going to tell their users exactly what is happening with their network connections, Google wants to make sure that these people have the ability to tell for themselves.

This announcement is Google’s most recent attempt at raising awareness about net neutrality. This isn’t the first time someone has made software to monitor your network to figure out if your ISP is doing anything fishy,
NNSquad Network Measurement Agent is a tool that does exactly that already.

In fact, this might actually be the tool Google is referring to. Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet Evangelist, is part of the NNSquad already. It’s unclear what kind of effect something like this will have on the network neutrality debate, but it certainly can’t hurt.


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Top 10 Illicit Domain Registrars
CHINA - Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software, BEIJINGNN, Todaynic
GERMANY - Joker
USA - eNom, Inc., MONIKER, Dynamic Dolphin, The Nameit Co/AITDOMAINS.COM, PDR, Intercosmos/DIRECTNIC

In a response to the recently released cluster analysis of the top 10 worst domain registrars in terms of spam and junk content hosting domains, the ICANN has taken steps to approach the non-compliant registrars :

More than half of those registrars named had already been contacted by ICANN prior to publication of KnujOn’s report, and the remainder have since been notified following an analysis of other sources of data, including ICANN’s internal database. With tens of millions of domain names in existence, and tens of thousands changing hands each day, ICANN relies upon the wider Internet community to report and review what it believes to be inaccurate registration data for individual domains. To this end, a dedicated online system called the Whois Data Problem Report System (“WDPRS”) was developed in 2002 to receive and track such complaints. ICANN sends, on average, over 75 enforcement notices per month following complaints from the community. We also conduct compliance audits to determine whether accredited registrars and registries are adhering to their contractual obligations,” explained Stacy Burnette, Director of Compliance at ICANN. “Infringing domain names are locked and websites removed every week through this system.”

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Posted by Robin Harris @ 2:29 pm on May 18, 2008

Two weeks ago my personal blog (StorageMojo) was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here’s how it works and tips on protecting yourself.

“Don’t be evil” is a pretty low bar
There’s been a lot of blog hacking going around. The criminals know that many folks with small websites and blogs are easy targets.

Break into a site, plant links, let Google to index it and all of a sudden millions of queries will be coming to the hacked sites. Put ads on the screen and see who bites.

Read the rest of this informative article at If hackers don’t get you, maybe Google will