Some of you may have noticed that, our Twitter pages are superseding our blogs in Google search results for your name. Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick has an easy HTML workaround to keep Twitter from becoming your primary online identity.
All of you surely want your blog or website to come first in the search result. Well its ok if its not first. But we dont want these social community profiles to come before our Websites or Blogs. Kirkpatrick discovered a small HTML tag that was missing from his own blog, yet present in Twitter, that could make all the difference.
He said,
So the long and short of this story is that if you want to make sure that Google understands your blog to be your primary beacon on the web, then you should add the words rel=”me” to a relevant link on your blog. I’ve added that tag to the link on my sidebar that goes to my feedback page, because that’s a good page for me. It’s as simple as making the link text read a href=”http://marshallk.com/feedback” rel=”me”.
Via – Lifehacker Via – Add One Line To Your Blog or Twitter Could Become Your Primary Identity [Marshall Kirkpatrick]
Today Guardian.co.uk reported that the famous Chinese Search engine Baidu Got hacked. Chinese internet users were unable to use the Baidu search engine after it was targeted by hackers called the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’.
Guardian Said,
The search engine is widely regarded as having good relations with the Beijing government and has never been associated with sensitive content. That led other internet users to speculate that foreign hackers were attempting to discredit Iran.
China’s state-run People’s Daily website reported that Baidu’s website began redirecting to a site attributed to the Iranian Cyber Army at around 8am (midnight GMT). The People’s Daily site published a screen grab showing a message reading “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army”, alongside a picture of the Iranian flag.
Other users said they could not open the Baidu site, but it was back up and running by around 11.30am. In a statement, the company said: “Services on Baidu’s main website www.baidu.com were interrupted today due to external manipulation of its DNS (Domain Name Server) in the US. Baidu has been resolving this issue and the majority of services have been restored.”
Via:guardian.co.uk
According to several news sources, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to an online search and advertising partnership which is to be announced and this announcement is most likely to happen in the the next 24 Hours.
This move will help them to make a good stand in both the search market and the Ads market. According to the current situation Google has the most market share for these.
The deal will focus on revenue sharing between the two companies, says AllThingsD. The deal also means Microsoft’s powerful Bing search will be enhancing the power of Yahoo searches while the Advertisement part of both companies will be done by Yahoo.
As of June, Google’s search engine was used for 65 percent of all US searches, with Yahoo lagging behind at 19.6 percent and Bing at 8.4 percent.
There could be a hitch however.
“Any agreement where Microsoft powers search and shares the search data to Yahoo is open to scrutiny from US and EU justice departments,”
says Colin Gillis, an analyst at Brigantine Advisors, via Reuters.
Anti-trust issues may be brought up as well.
