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Online advertisers pledge to tell us what they're after
News Yahoo! supported the proposal because it "raises the bar on transparency", said Anne Toth, vice president of policy for Yahoo! Online advertisers are proposing a mix of disclosures to consumers about... [02 Jul 2009]
Bing jumps on Twitter-mania with tweet index
News Both Google and Yahoo! Microsoft is trying to get a leg up in the real-time search wars by adding Twitter messages to search results. The software company's recently launched Bing will now surface results for certain... [02 Jul 2009]
Link Spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation
White Paper In their experiments on the host-level Yahoo! Link spamming intends to mislead search engines and trigger an artificially high link-based ranking of specific target web pages. This paper introduces the concept of spam... [01 Jul 2009]
Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat
White Paper Chat bots have been found on a number of chat systems, including commercial chat networks, such as AOL, Yahoo! The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. [01 Jul 2009]
Web Spam Detection: Link-Based and Content-Based Techniques
White Paper The Web is both an excellent medium for sharing information as well as an attractive platform for delivering products and services. This platform is, to some extent, mediated by search engines in order to meet the needs of users seeking... [01 Jul 2009]
WITCH: A New Approach to Web Spam Detection
White Paper This paper presents an algorithm, witch that learns to detect spam hosts or pages on the Web. Unlike most other approaches, it simultaneously exploits the structure of the Web graph as well as page contents and features. [01 Jul 2009]
Know Your Neighbors: Web Spam Detection Using the Web Topology
White Paper Web spam can significantly deteriorate the quality of search engine results. Thus there is a large incentive for commercial search engines to detect spam pages efficiently and accurately. This paper presents a spam detection system that... [01 Jul 2009]
Android's Hero edges a Flash ahead of iPhone
News Adobe demonstrated Flash on Android in an online video Wednesday, showing off the technology for watching a trailer at Yahoo! HTC's new Android-based Hero phone will also come with the ability to handle Flash elements... [25 Jun 2009]
Remote Denial of Service Attacks and Countermeasures
White Paper About six months later, the attack by a Canadian teenager on several major sights including Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, CNN, and Buy.com made headlines. As evinced by a series of high profile attacks, Denial of Service (DoS),... [25 Jun 2009]
Quocirca's Straight Talking - The New Age of Web Ads
White Paper At the same time, the likes of Google and Yahoo! IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is all the rage in the quadruple-play markets where telecommunications companies hope to sell landline, mobile, internet access and... [25 Jun 2009]
Mollie Stone's Markets: Bags Mirapoint Solution
White Paper They were exchanging messages between AOL accounts, but if a new employee came onboard that had an account with another hosted service, like Yahoo, they allowed them to use that. Mollie Stone's Markets, founded in 1985,... [25 Jun 2009]
Google launches new site showing need for speed
News Google has already started to help web publishers test their sites for stragglers with a Firefox plug-in called PageSpeed, something that Yahoo! Few would disagree that faster is better when it comes to the web, and... [24 Jun 2009]
Microsoft's datacentres get a Yahoo! expert
News Microsoft has grabbed another Yahoo! Operations VP Kevin Timmons becomes the latest to swap Yahoo! In February, Microsoft announced it was hiring Larry Heck, another VP from Yahoo!... [23 Jun 2009]
Google In-Game Advertising
White Paper The company combines creativity, innovation and originality to create games for friends to play together over social platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo! Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest... [23 Jun 2009]
A Strategic Review of Existing Mobile Agent-Based Intrusion Detection Systems
White Paper Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) is defined as a component that analyses system and user operations in computer and network systems in search of activities considered undesirable from security perspectives. [20 Jun 2009]