Bing Continues With Fake Referrers For over two years now, Microsoft’s search engine has been generating fake information that can make site owners think they’re getting strange search traffic (including porn traffic), when they are not. It’s time for this to come to an end. The culprit? Microsoft’s “crawler,” the software that visits web pages across the web that go into the search engine. The crawler is known as MSNBot, from the days when the recently renamed Bing search engine was known as MSN Search. When that crawler gathers a web page, it sometimes leaves behind “referrer” information in a web site’s logs — fake referrer information, that is. Referrer information? That’s a way that a web browser tells a web site the last page it viewed before coming to the site. A better name would be “referral information,” since that’s effectively what referrer data shows — what web page effectively was the “referral” for someone to find your web site. » Read More

Found the Talk Back letter titled "Microsoft's Yahoo Bid Genius - Software Developer" mildly amusing and relatively elementary, but thanks for the efforts.

According to the person who drafted this letter, Yahoo Inc.'s (YHOO) stock went "sideways-south" after turning down the Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) offer. Interesting. I pulled up the stock data and found that Yahoo closed at $29.20 a share Friday. Then, after rejecting the offer, Yahoo closed Monday at $29.87 ( after hitting $30.04 that day).

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A merger of Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. would have a curious impact on tens of millions of Internet users: Their email accounts would eventually be processed by a single tech behemoth.Nearly three-fourths of U.S. Internet users have either a Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo email account, and the planned merger could give Microsoft a broader reach on the Web. Analysts believe such a dominant footprint isn't likely to scuttle the deal, but if the titans try to merge, some say that government scrutiny could come on the privacy and data-security concerns. » Read More

Testy exchanges punctuated yesterday's debate over the relevance of privacy concerns in the European Commission's (EC) review of the proposed Google-DoubleClick merger.

At yesterday's meeting in Brussels, consumer advocates appealed to European lawmakers and regulators to examine privacy concerns when evaluating Google's acquisition of the online advertising provider.

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SubmitShop (www.submitshop.com) is a Professional Submission Company located in Chandigarh, India, since 1999 has launched an outsourcing of manual directory submission services to its SEO partners in UK, US, Canada, Australia and other Europeans countries with the beginning of 2008.

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Are humans really better search filters than computers? That's the question Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes to answer as he unveils his new human-powered search engine on Monday.Mr. Wales will open the doors to curious Web users to begin developing Wikia, the open-source search engine that borrows a page from his original free encyclopedia. It also tries to steal a little thunder away from the reigning search champ, Google Inc.

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