Mozilla confirms Firefox 3.0 flaw, says risk minimal

Mozilla security chief Window Snyder (left) has confirmed the existence of a serious code execution vulnerability in the brand-new Firefox 3.0 browser.
Snyder’s confirmation follows a public warning by TippingPoint’s ZDI (Zero Day Initiative) that the flaw could lead to PC takeover hijacks if a user simply surfs to a rigged Web site with Firefox.

On the [...]

Technorati Media - Technorati’s Blog Ad Network

A very interesting post on TechCrunch announcing the launch of Technorati’s Ad network, to be called Technorati Media. The site, when launched and live, will be at http://www.technoratimedia.com/
Quoting from the post:
“…The company has been testing the new sales product with a number of partners, including BlogTalkRadio, BlogCritics, BlogCatalog, BlogTV, Technabob, GPSMagazine, GeekAlerts and NerdApproved. CEO [...]

Sunset for Live Booksearch and Search Academic

The Live Search Blog reports that Microsoft is abandoning its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects. Is this from the giant Microsoft that we know of?

The end of the digitization project
Microsoft will keep the current Live Search Books and Live Search Academics databases, and the data will be included in regular web search [...]

Microsoft to lure search users with cash

According to Todd Bishop’s blog, Microsoft is all set to to lure search users with cash!
Microsoft has tried almost everything to get more people to pick its search site over Google, without much luck. So maybe a little cash will do the trick.

A screenshot of the Live Search cashback site.

That is the idea behind a [...]

How to watch Web Search Trends

The search engines have become an integrated part of our lives. Each and every day billions of searches are made all over the world, reflecting stories of work and leisure, strife and passion, and the interests of millions of Internet searchers….

AOL To Unveil Open Voice APIs

AOL plans to roll out open voice APIs today for developers and device makers to integrate the company’s AIM Call Out service into the hardware and software used to make phone calls over the Internet

Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 1

The massive list of all Web 2.0 sites - who says they are dead?

Google forges ahead with next generation of image search

Search giant Google wants to push forward with a new, improved form of image search that’s based on visual characteristics, not just text. Last week, two of the company’s scientists presented a paper outlining a system they’re calling VisualRank.

Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out: Sticky, Viral, User-friendly

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo here Thursday, Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh revealed how the company is transforming itself into an open and social platform from the ground up. It is opening its Web platform to developers and moving closer to a Facebook-style social networking concept. Ari Balogh also said that while Yahoo already has open APIs for some services, it will expand the open API concept to other areas and make it more consistent for developers, while boosting the ’social’ aspect of its services for its members.

Google Crawls The Deep Web

Google recently announced it will soon begin indexing the so-called “deep” web, those pages hiding behind HTML forms and other inadvertently spider-blocking HTML elements. The move will potentially open up a whole new range of webpages that were previously invisible to the search engine.