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Facebook and Twitter were attacked by hackers with denial-of-service attack on August 6. In a denial-of-service attack a Web site or server is bombarded with more traffic than it can handle, effectively causing online congestion. Such attacks are done from multiple computers and usually hackers send malware data to the target site in unison. After initial denial of any such attack, both Facebook and Twitter have now acknowledged attack on their site by denial-of-service attack.

In a blog hosted on an unaffected server, Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone acknowledged the attack. “Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate,” he added.

Twitter had declared their scaling problems in early 2007. And as much as the great Twitter outages of 2007 and 2008 frustrated users, these outages are much more serious. Twitter has come a long way since 2007 as 45 million people worldwide now rely on Twitter as a communication platform. They will have to scale if they really want to be the ‘Pulse of the Planet.’

Facebook issued an early statement on its site saying that, “Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered network issues related to an apparent distributed denial-of-service attack that resulted in degraded service for some users. No user data was at risk and we have restored full access to the site for most users. We’re continuing to monitor the situation to ensure that users have the fast and reliable experience they’ve come to expect from Facebook.” As compared to Twitter, Facebook and Google were able to minimize any impact to their sites along with sites such as Blogger, YouTube and other Google Sites.

Pingdom, a site that tracks server uptime, states that Twitter was offline for about two and a half hours. Last time, Twitter was down due to unplanned downtime was on May 30 this year due to a software error. Denial-of-service attacks are becoming common nowadays. According to Information week, Gawker Media sites and AT&T were hit with it earlier this week. Last week, Internet Systems Consortium warned that BIND 9, the most common domain name server, contained a vulnerability that could be exploited to crash the server, leading to a denial-of-service. The company said that the vulnerability is actively being exploited and it urged users of the software to update immediately.

Amongst all this commotion an interesting piece of news has emerged. A pro-Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites, according to a Facebook executive. “It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard. We’re actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can,” said Max Kelly, Chief Security Officer at Facebook to CNET. The blogger whose account was attacked uses the account name ‘Cyxymu’ (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia). Kelly declined to speculate on whether Russian nationalists were behind the attack.

Internet is growing in dimensions every second, so much so that there are more addresses than there are people on Earth, claims the team behind Microsoft’s new search engine Bing.

Bing has put the number of web pages at “over 1 trillion”, while Google had earlier indexed more than one trillion discreet web addresses.

The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion, which means that there are about 150 web addresses per person in the world.

And this could mean that if a person spent just one minute reading every website in existence, then he or she would be kept busy for 31,000 years, without any sleep.

“An average person would need six hundred thousand decades of nonstop reading to read through the information,” News.com.au quoted Bing as saying.

Mark Higginson, director of analytics for Nielsen Online, said that the global online population had jumped 16 per cent since last year.

“Approximately 1.46 billion people worldwide now use the internet which represents a solid 16 per cent increase from the previous year’s estimate (1.26 billion in 2007),” he said.

The largest Internet population belongs to China, with 338 million users online, which is more than there were people in the US.

However InternetWorldStats.com (IWS), a website that combines multiple data sources, has claimed that China’s online population is more like 298 million.

“With the rates of India and China still quite low, there is ample room for growth in the coming decade,” said Higginson.

But, measuring the online population could be tricky-there are servers, users, per capita numbers, and penetration percentages to evaluate.

And thus it is difficult to find a single figure to represent the world online population.

IWS combined data from the UN’s International Telecommunications Union, Nielsen Online, GfK and US Census Bureau, and its latest global figures puts the number of internet users in the world at 1,596,270,108.

And this is just 23.8 per cent of the estimated 6,0706,993,152 people in the world. But it changes every day.

“In terms of the future, we anticipate mobile to contribute significantly to internet usage,” said Higginson.

According to IWS, the top 5 countries with the most internet users are:

1 - China (298,000,000 users, or 22.4 percent of their population)

2 - US (227,190,989, or 74.7 percent)

3 - Japan (94,000,000, or 73.8 percent)

4 - India (81,000,000, or 7.1 percent)

5 - Brazil (67,510,400, or 34.4% percent)

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In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is developing an operating system for a personal computer based on its Chrome browser, according to two people briefed on Google’s plans.

The details of the technology could not be learned, but Google plans to make the announcement on a company blog on Wednesday afternoon, this person said.

Google did not immediately return calls and e-mail messages seeking comment.

The move would sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers.

Google could well be hoping to capitalize on the rise of netbooks, the compact, low-cost computers that have turned the PC world on its head.

Google already has already developed an operating system called Android, that is used for mobile phones. The software is also being built into lightweight PCs called netbooks by several manufacturers.

More and more people have stopped going on to Google.com, not because they do not like the search engine, it is just because it is built into a number of web browsers now. People using Google for search is now more popular than ever, but that is because the competition is a bit out of the loop, but not anymore. Microsoft has been working hard on their latest search engine, and Bing is it.

Google should never underestimate Microsoft, they have been like a sleeping giant and have now woken from a long sleep and they are now ready for a fight. Thankfully, they now have the tools to do it, and Cnet News has suggested that Microsoft Bing is the first real Google alternative.

Cnet have only spent a short amount of time with Microsoft Bing and already the writer of the article is rethinking his search engine options. They explain how fast and accurate Google search results are, but the whole experience is a bit of boring one, there is no fun to it.

Bing is different; they have traded a fraction of the speed in exchange for an improved user experience and a site that is not so boring that it will send you to sleep.

For a full review on Microsoft Bing, visit our source link within the post.

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Google announced its move to launch a venture fund of its own named Google Ventures. By the looks of it Google ventures has a very broad investment philosophy. The google ventures site states and I quote “We’re studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance.”

There is no minimum amount of funding outlined and also no geographies mentioned. But rest assured given that this fund is lead by Bill Maris who was the founder of Burlee.com, which he sold to Web.com its almost certain that this fund would be initially focused on the US markets. Also as their contact address suggests there is no presence in India.

Google has been known for acquiring startups around the world and has done very few direct investments. It has though been an investor in the Seedfund and Ventureast a seed stage venture fund in India. But this new launch of a venture fund should not affect that engagement as Google ventures clearly looks like a US focused fund.

Fund to acquire strategy?

Startups looking towards google as a prospective investor might be concerned on one issue is that Google may be the kind of investor that might fund to acquire. After all thats what it has been doing the last decade as acquitions have been the way google has taken to grow its multi billion dollar empire. Its very possible that google would have an affinity towards investing in startups and technologies that it wants to acquire at a later date. After all you wouldn’t expect a google funded company being acquired by microsoft would you?

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Google has updated Pagerank in September 2008 and I was hoping that google will start this Pagerank update after 20-25 December and it looks google has actually started Pagerank update from today. I have seen many blogs and websites with updated Pagerank.

Well all the blogs which I have seen got lowered PR which made me to think another Google nightmare of mass blog penalty but I think that’s not the case. Since this is just started we will see Pagerank fluctuations till 1^st week of January 2009.

Please keep in mind that Actual pagerank of website changes daily and this is just toolbar Pagerank update.

Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Verizon and FedEx for the first time have made an annual ranking of the top 20 most trusted companies in the United States.

Google, However, dropped off the list, released today by the Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe in San Francisco, as did Countrywide Financial, Bank of America (which acquired Countrywide) and Weight Watchers.

Financial companies were tarred by the subprime mortgage crisis and the subsequent meltdown of investment banks on Wall Street, said Dr. Larry Ponemon, who conducted the survey, but not all financial companies were equally hit.

Nationwide retained its place as the ninth most trusted company, and U.S. Bank and eLoan managed to stay in the top 20, although both dropped a few places.

At No. 1, for the fourth year in a row, was American Express, followed by eBay, IBM, Amazon and Johnson & Johnson.

This is the fifth year the survey has been conducted.

The Ponemon Institute got 6,500 people - weighted by age, gender and household income to match the U.S. census - to name the five companies they trusted most and least.

Concern about privacy is higher than ever, the survey showed. Less than half of consumers - 45 percent - feel they have control over their personal information. That’s down from 48 percent last year and 56 percent in 2006.

More than 60 percent said identity theft negatively affects how they think about a company, and more than half get concerned when a company sends notifications of data breaches.

“Consumers are getting more astute about” privacy, said Fran Maier, the CEO of TRUSTe, which evaluates online privacy practices.

Ponemon said some companies, like IBM, might be trusted because they have big brands; others, like Apple, because consumers like their products.

He speculated that people felt sorry for Yahoo because of its difficulties with Microsoft and Google, neither of which made the list.

“Google (and Microsoft) suffer from big company syndrome,” Ponemon said. “People figure that if you’re big and collecting data, there must be an issue.”

In general, Ponemon said, companies that are seen by consumers as most trusted do tend to have good privacy practices.

Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, said the company has worked hard to earn people’s trust by giving Facebook users more choices over what happens to their personal information.

“It shouldn’t be binary, where you either reveal a piece of data to everyone on the Internet or Facebook or not at all,” he said. “We think people want to share more information, but they want choices.”

Half of the top 20 this year have won seals of approval by TRUSTe, which co-sponsored the survey but had nothing to do with conducting it.

Google and the Hallmark Channel announced Wednesday that they have formed a partnership that will make Google TV Ads the channel’s exclusive advertiser. All of the ads will be placed on both the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel.

According to Hallmark, many of the advertisers it’s now trying to attract through Google’s TV Ads platform are new to the television platform, so it will provide more in-depth viewership data to help advertising partners make “real-time adjustments” to campaigns.

Google TV Ads are unique in the television advertising business. Instead of employing conventional techniques for television advertising, Google takes its online model and applies that to the medium. The company aims to provide greater relevancy by using proprietary targeting tools and an auction-based pricing system, which only costs advertisers when impressions are delivered to their ads.

Hallmark and Hallmark Movie Channel now join Google’s growing list of TV advertising partners, which includes Sci-Fi, MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television.

Bookmakers and online casinos will be able to advertise on Google, the world’s most popular internet search engine, from today.

The company, which yesterday received royal approval when the Queen visited its British headquarters near Victoria station, was condemned as “irresponsible” by MPs and church leaders for lifting its four-year ban and allowing gambling companies to buy “sponsored links” on its site in Britain.

Google introduced a global ban on gambling adverts on its site in 2004, but decided to end it for British customers after rules on television advertising for bookmakers, casinos and gambling websites were relaxed.

Google insisted that all advertisers using the service would have to be regulated in Britain or Europe and would have to have internet links to organisations helping problem gamblers. But critics condemned the move, saying the adverts could attract people hit by the global economic downturn.

The Church of England led attacks on the decision, which came a day after figures were released showing a 25 per cent increase in people seeking help with gambling problems.

A CofE spokesman said: “Whatever people are searching for on Google, it probably isn’t the chance to risk developing a serious problem that could have a hugely negative effect on themselves and their family. As people are facing more financial uncertainty, the fantasy of instant wealth could become particularly attractive and the consequences of losses correspondingly serious.”

Figures released this week by the gambling addiction charity GamCare showed a huge increase in the numbers of people seeking help. Nearly 38,000 called its betting hotline last year, compared with just more than 30,000 the year before. Callers had racked up average debts of £17,500.

Last night, MPs of all parties warned Google not to exacerbate the problems of online gambling. Peter Kilfoyle, the former Labour Defence minister, said: “It’s the height of stupidity. It seems probably the worst of times for people to be encouraging gambling… after we have been facing a financial crisis built on reckless gambling in the markets.”

Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat Culture spokesman, added: “Clearly this is perfectly legal but it is of huge concern that we have further expansion of the advertising of internet gambling when we know it creates problems.”

Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Culture minister, added: “At a time when calls to GamCare have increased by a quarter I would hope Google would exercise some corporate social responsibility… At the very least [it] should ensure all advertisers meet UK gambling regulations irrespective of their country of origin.”

The Salvation Army said the move was “effectively encouraging vulnerable people into debt” warning that it contributed to a “creeping normalisation” of gambling in society.

A spokesman said: “With widespread use of the internet, use of online lotteries and betting opportunities [are] increasing. And with 16- to 24-year-olds among the most frequent users of the internet, it is not unrealistic to be concerned this group will be particularly affected by this poor decision.”

Google insisted that its UK-based advertisers would have to be registered with the British Gambling Commission before advertising, while European operators would also have to be licensed in their home country. All would have to have links to the GamCare website.

He said it would be for companies to decide which search words would trigger adverts for their services but stressed that the advertisements could be screened out by users.

James Cashmore of Google said: “We’ve decided to amend our policy to allow text ads to appear against search queries related to gambling in Great Britain. We hope this will enhance the search experience for users and help advertisers connect with interested consumers. Gambling ads will automatically be classified as Non-Family Safe which means they will not show on any search where the user has applied the Safe Search filter.”

When Larry Page and Sergy Brin, two geek graduates of Stanford University, started a search engine called BackRub, they had no idea it would go on to become Google, the world’s biggest search engine, and would land them in Forbe’s richest peoples’ list.

And now the search engine has completed 10 years of reigning supreme in the virtual world of Internet. On Sep 7 1998, Page and Brin erased the phrase ‘lack of information’ forever for anyone who owns a computer and an Internet connection.

Ranked number one in India and the US as the most visited website and settling for the second spot globally right after Yahoo!, Google has rushed towards its success considering the company is just a baby with only 10 years of experience to boast about.

But it makes up for it more than enough in its revenue sector. Only last year Google reportedly earned $16.5 billions.

From only 10,000 search requests in 1998, it is said that Google handles 235 million searches in a normal day in 2008. But this is one query on which there is ‘no information’ on Google.

Only last week, Google decided to extend its tentacles and launched a brand new web browser, Chrome, which is causing ripples across the net community already.

For some, Google has become synonymous with any Internet search or query. And as for students, who trust nothing except Google to complete their assignments, it is like a second teacher.

‘Google’s still my number one search engine, because the results are better and related, Despite complaints from high pressure seo industry enthusiast, Google’s improvements are much needed by those who are honest and don’t try their fancy tricks to get their SPAM listed. Despite some worries, Google continues its dominance as best search engine,  says Paavan Solanki, Director and SEO Trainer Targetseo.com, India