In Search of Desktop Search (REDMOND magazine)

Finding a data needle in the haystack that is your hard disk requires more than just a magnifying glass and a huge dose of patience.

All-in-One Security Suites: Tried and Tested
(PC World)

We check out eight products, from the popular to the relatively unknown. They can't protect you from everything, but some come close.

Check out our ranked chart of all eight security suites tested for this article.

Hacker Safe' Seal Under Attack Following Site Breach
(PC World Canada)

More than 80,000 Web sites worldwide display a small green logo that proclaims them to be "Hacker Safe."

But the company behind this security seal, ScanAlert, found itself on the defensive recently after technology retailer Geeks.com, which carries the seal, warned some customers that their personal and credit card data may have been compromised by hackers.

"[The] seals are completely ludicrous," says David Kennedy of Secure-State. Upon a request for testing from the owners of ten Hacker Safe sites, his company was able to break into and easily access financial and customer data from nine of the ten sites.

Search Engine Wars : Google & Yahoo
(The Times – Money Online, South Africa)

According to the February 2008 ComScore search report, Google holds 59% of the search market, Yahoo and its affiliated search portals hold 22.6% and Microsoft/ MSN hold up the third position at 9.6% According to Hitwise, based on search volume Google leads at 66% followed by Yahoo at just over 20% and MSN trailing at a little over 5%.

Fine and well that the search engine are vying for users, but have search engines really improved over the past few years? That is an interesting train of thought looking at a report released in January 2008. According to Hitwise, over the past 2 years visitor’s to question and answer websites such as Yahoo Answers, have increased by more than 889%.

If search engines had been that good, clearly people would not be looking through question and answer websites now would they?

Google Answers (Google)

We're sorry, but Google Answers has been retired, and is no longer accepting new questions.

20 FUN GOOGLES ABOUT GOOGLE
(Daily Star, United Kingdom)

Internet search engine Google has been named the most powerful brand on the planet – but how much do you know about the computer giant

Yahoo! Reportedly Getting Closer to Google Deal (Silverlight)

The Google strategy, which could potentially be worth a billion dollars a year to Yahoo! but is sure to catch antitrust flak, is part of a tripartite deal that would have Yahoo! merge with AOL and AOL’s owner Time Warner take a 20% stake in the combined company for some cash to fend off Yahoo!’s unwanted acquisition by Microsoft.

Then the idea would be for Yahoo! to use Time Warner’s money to buy back a few billion dollars worth of stock for somewhere between $30 and $40 a share to pacify investors watching Microsoft and its money walk out the door, which could crush Yahoo’s stock.

Anyway, the Journal now says Google and Yahoo! are trying to figure out how to avoid being blocked by regulators and could limit their ties to specific kinds of search queries or regions.

Microsoft, meanwhile, has other ideas and has hired a Washington lobbyist, Bryan Cave Strategies, to ensure that its acquisition of Yahoo! passes the regulatory gauntlet.

Case Sensitive Google Search Results Being Found
(Search Engine Watch Blog)

Chris Silver Smith over at NetConcepts found case sensitive results in Google SERPs. Let's hope this is just some error and not a change that will see many people scrambling to make wholesale changes to their SEO efforts.

Talk about ways to further pollute the results.... rewritten copy saying the same thing but geared towards upper and lower case search results... does anyone win here?