On January 31, 2009 the entire internet arena was full of confusions and amusements when surfers around the globe received error warning when they browsed the internet. This was a problem with Google and all webpages showed this critical warning when they tried to access sites through Google. This severe problem lasted from 4 to 5 hours and all the internet activities where stalled during this period of time.

The more interesting fact was Google’s advisory pages suggested the usual steps to troubleshoot the issue or it contained the reasons for problems. But it was not acceptable just because these advisory notes were meant only for infected and malicious pages. Everyone was perplexed to think the whole of internet pages, doesn’t matter whichever the site is infected and malicious ones. There was no reason to think for common man Google had some problems which are technical and this was the hot news.

In their blog, Google made it very simple to justify as a simple human error. They continued, stating that they have a program which tracks the updates regarding malicious sites and this program is not an automated one. Instead, this program is maintained by humans and that was simply a human error.

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For a short while yesterday, every page displayed by Google reported messages and warnings about harms affecting your computer. This was in a way that every URL you find in search results have the text displayed as the site might harm the computer.

The Google pages displayed in search results when clicked will display advisory warnings similar to the malware infested websites. The suggestions to the users were given as returning to the previous page for picking results or trying another search for finding out what the users were looking for.

Google has reported that this bug lasted only for around for 40 minutes and this was resolved within a time frame of 55 minutes. This was only a human error which helped when Google tries to flag the sites which are known for installing malwares.

The errors for the pages were noticed at around 6.27 AM and 6.40 AM. This began disappearing at around 7.10 AM and 7.25 AM. The duration of this problem for any user was only for 40 minutes.

Some blogs started reporting this news as a means by which the service was denied to the Google users. Some sites considered it a menace when users try to find out more information from their sites. They hence started showing expectations saying Google will take steps to prevent such things in the future.

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A recent patent from Yahoo describes in detail how people or users can help in the crawling of web pages. This patent is known as the automatically fetching patent and will come up with details of how a user or site interaction could be used to help the search engine crawling program.

The activities which are involved and addressed include the webmaster training the crawler of how to find out the pages which are indexed in their website. A human reviewer is teaching the crawler of how to find out the pages. The content subscriber will show the crawling program, the information that would be subscribed to and updates will be sending about it.

As per this patent, the search engine will allow people to teach the web crawling program. This will help in the navigation of pages of the website. This will be particularly more useful in accessing web pages which have java script links and those pages which are accessible only through various selections. Pages which are accessible through inputting text into forms can also be navigated with the help of this patent implementation.

The patent find application when search engines find difficulties in crawling pages which could be due to java script links.

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It is true that one hosts a website in order to profit from it in whatever capacity. As such, it comes a shocking blow to know that as of 2008, officials in Thailand have blocked viewership to over 2300 websites to locals.  The major reason cited for such mass blockage is security and defamation of the government.

This becomes important keeping in mind that the political scenario in Thailand is not too stable and anything that’s cited against the king isn’t taken too well. Sites banned also include pornographic sites. The strange part of this analysis is the 90% of these sites are hosted overseas which means that international website owners stand to suffer. What may be viewed as acceptable and informational content elsewhere in the word is a taboo in Thailand?

Banned sites include those containing cartoons, articles, blogs and even YouTube videos. Thailand isn’t the first country to be practicing such large scale banning and this is popularly carried out in China too. In fact China tops the list in terms of stringency but news of banned sites elsewhere will influence website owners to review their content so as to not face the ire of threatened governments across the globe.

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The need for great SEO techniques is not just a need, it’s a necessity. For your site to be noticed, alongside internet marketing, you’ll need just the right design an SEO tools to help it reach out. You want to make money from your site. You need to know how to link and how to get the right back links. Get people to mention you on their sites. A back link will make people view your site.

The need for content doesn’t just end at grammatical proficiency. You need the latest info and keywords so people search for what you write. Today, if you chose to right an interesting article with great research on dinosaurs, it may not be as well read as content related to Obama and McCains presidential debate. It’s about the right tags and keywords at the right time. This is SEO at its best.

A little foresight and open mindedness to what you want the world to read about will help you get the best results. Be attentive towards using popular tags, cloud tags, meta tags, and link well with relevancy while being attentive towards titles. This is the simple truth and your best secret towards attracting more traffic.

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