Google has published a detailed, 49-page report that rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page. The result? It’s failing in a number of categories.
On the bright side, the company says it plans to use this information to better its own SEO, and that to help others, the company has shared some of the metrics it’s used.
For eager beavers who want a taste of Firefox to come, Mozilla issued a second preview release Wednesday of the browser.
The software is based on version 1.9.3 of the Gecko browser engine that underlies Firefox. The current Firefox 3.6, and an update called Lorentz, are based on 1.9.2.
AVG Free provides the bare necessities when it comes to security, but that should be enough for savvy Windows users. You’ll get a combined antivirus and antimalware engine, LinkScanner, and e-mail scanning. AVG Free 9 introduces a few new features, with improvements focused on performance, including claims of faster scan and boot times. One new feature is the Identity Theft Recovery Unit. Only for users in the United States, ITRU is a business partnership with Identity Guard which provides “consumer identity theft solutions,” accessible only from the AVG toolbar in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
More tweaks are on the way for Google Buzz amid reports that the company is considering building a Gmail-free version.
In response to the angry missive directed Google’s way Thursday by blogger Harriet Jacobs, Google has made additional changes to the way Buzz interacts with Google Reader, according to Silicon Alley Insider. Buzz users who had blocked other users from following them continued to see those users following their public Google Reader items, which Google described as a “bug.”
KeyLemon adds an extra layer of security to your computer log-in process by making your Webcam do all the heavy lifting. Instead of typing your password, KeyLemon 2.2 associates your face with your profile, and then regularly checks to make sure that the person sitting in front of the computer matches the image attached to that profile. If it doesn’t think they match, the computer takes a photo via the Webcam and then automatically goes to hibernate.
Although Apple’s iPad has yet to hit the market, the Federal Communications Commission has expressed concern over its potential impact on AT&T’s 3G network.
Without naming AT&T, which has secured a carrier deal for the tablet device, Phil Bellaria, director of scenario planning, and John Leibovitz, deputy chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, outlined their concerns in an FCC blog post Monday:
A few weeks after releasing Thunderbird 3.0, an overhaul of its open-source e-mail software, Mozilla has issued an early test version of a successor that smooths rough edges and fixes some bugs.
Facebook has gotten another face-lift.
The popular social-networking site has tweaked its home page yet again. This time around, the redesign puts more of Facebook’s core features and settings right on the home page. The goal is to spare users from having to jump from one page to another to access their favorite features.
Google isn’t marching into consumer electronics; it’s tentatively dipping its toes.
When word of the Nexus One smartphone broke, the consensus was that Google was about to challenge Apple for the high end of the mobile phone market. One month after its launch, it’s clear that an awful lot will have to change before Google can truly be considered a viable competitor.
It’s not that there’s anything lacking from the Nexus One. It’s easily the best Android phone produced to date, and CNET editors recently decided it outranked the iPhone 3GS, Apple’s best iPhone to date.
How has Apple’s launch of the iPad made other companies feel? Has it brought sneaking admiration or steaming ire?
I fear that Google might not be leaping for joy like leprechauns.
