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The topic of SSL security on an unsecured wifi connection was brought up on on the thread about How to Secure Wordpress Sites and it seemed there was enough FUD swirling around this topic to start a new thread.

This is intended to be educational for those that think SSL-MITM isn’t possible so don’t shoot the messenger as this is an educational and informative post. I’m not trying to show anyone how to launch a MITM attack, or give away all the steps required to sniff SSL. Besides, there’s no need to do this because all of this information is freely available all over the internet with a simple query.

From the WordPress thread mentioned above:

If you can establish yourself as the MITM (Man in the Middle) you only need to dnsspoof the destination and issue a fake SSL cert as a response to the victim and then you can use SSLDUMP to decrypt the SSL stream.

Wow, that was hard wasn’t it?

As a matter of fact, there’s even a program available called WEBMITM (web man-in-the-middle) to help facilitate this:

The method I saw used way back in the day was a simple intermediate SSL proxy server which is similar in concept to what I described above.

Let’s do a simple diagram of how that works:

Browser using SSL -> SSL proxy -> SSL destination (Bank, Paypal, etc.)

Your browser is happy and shows a LOCK because it’s in a secure SSL conversation with the SSL proxy. The SSL proxy server then makes the secure connection to the destination server and passes the content and cookies back and forth between your browser and the true destination.

All conversations are in SSL, everyone’s happy, and all the data is collected in the middle.

The big challenge is getting in the middle.

If you can get in the middle, all bets are off.

Forget just collecting web passwords as there’s SSHMITM to handle SSH protocols.

Not to mention password recovery tools like Cain & Able can pretty much sniff out anything.

Many of the tools mentioned above are actually bundled into a network auditing and penetration testing package called “dsniff” which you can use to identify leaks in your network security. Unfortunately the knife cuts both ways and the same tools can be used to breach network security.

So how safe is your wifi connection?

It’s probably OK because the number of reported incidents is very low.

Some suggest using the TOR anonymizer will thwart simple MITM attacks because it scatters the request over many TCP connections. TOR is cheap (FREE!), easy to install, and probably not a bad idea to try if you use a lot of public wifi connections. I’ve yet to investigate the effectiveness of this solution but it’s definitely better than using nothing at all.

What do I use?

I use a broadband card and disable wifi when I’m traveling.

Chip giant Intel is teaming up with web firm Yahoo and hardware company HP to create virtual research centres for cloud computing.

Cloud computing offers online storage and promises a range of new services for data and devices that are plugged into the cloud.

Initially six data centres will be available for pre-selected researchers to test new applications.

Baidu Inc., China’s most-used Internet search engine, posted an 87 percent jump in second- quarter profit, beating analysts’ estimates and sending the shares up 13 percent.

Net income increased to 265 million yuan ($38.8 million), or 7.62 yuan per share, from 142 million yuan, or 4.09 yuan, a year earlier, the Beijing-based company said today in a statement. Sales doubled to 802.6 million yuan. The company also forecast sales that may beat analysts’ estimates.

Chief Executive Officer Robin Li added to Baidu’s lead over Google Inc. in China by introducing services such as online games from Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. and anti-virus software from Kingsoft Corp. Baidu has almost two-thirds of the search market in China, the world’s biggest Web market.

And,I have a domain:
http://www.baiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidu.com/

The “spam king” was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals.

Robert Soloway, the man known as the spam king for the massive volume of spam he sent out, pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming and tax evasion after being indicted in May 2007. After an unusually long sentencing hearing lasting two-and-a-half days, Judge Marsha Pechman handed down her sentence in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle.

The case has been closely watched because only a few such spam cases have ever been tried. A man named Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced in Virginia earlier this year to nine years in prison for his spam crimes, and Adam Vitale got slightly more than two years for a recent conviction in New York.

The prosecution argued that Soloway should get more prison time than any of the previous spammers, asking for a sentence of seven to nine years. “None of those cases, not one, comes close to this case in terms of the duration of the maliciousness, the harassment techniques, the high level of spamming activity that we have in this case,” said assistant U.S. attorney Kathryn Warma.

However, compared with some other notorious spammers, Soloway deserved some leniency, his attorneys said. Soloway didn’t damage anyone’s computer, he didn’t send out malicious code, and he never directed people to pornography, as some spammers have done, his lawyer Richard Troberman said. Jaynes, for example, had millions of AOL e-mail addresses that were stolen from the ISP (Internet service provider), and he was earning as much as US$700,000 a month from his activities, Troberman said. By comparison, the government figured conservatively that Soloway earned more than $700,000 in three years.

But the Soloway case was an opportunity for the courts to dissuade online criminals from continuing their work, Warma said. “A disturbing theme we repeatedly saw from the complainant is, why isn’t the law being enforced on the Net? Why isn’t CAN-SPAM being enforced?” she said. “This individual has refused to stop his criminal conduct, notwithstanding two separate civil judgments and an injunction by a U.S. federal court judge. I suggest to you the only effective way to stop Soloway is a long prison sentence during which he’ll be incapable of continuing this criminal activity.” Soloway has previously lost cases brought against him by Microsoft and by an ISP in Oklahoma, yet continued to spam.

Pechman said it was difficult to come up with a sentence for Soloway because there have been so few other spam cases in the courts and because the legal system doesn’t yet have appropriate sentencing guidelines. “This statute really needs a set of guidelines written and tailored to the CAN-SPAM act, tailored to the evolving computer science that allows people to engage in this activity,” she said. “The current guidelines are not really very helpful,” especially when CAN-SPAM violations are combined with other crimes, she said.

Soloway apologized to the judge and to his family, admitting that his actions were wrong. “There is no one else to blame but myself,” he said, before the judge handed down her sentence.

Soloway has apologized for his activities before. After he was investigated in 1999 in California for spamming activities, he told detectives that he was sorry and learned a lot, Warma said. “He then moved on to another state and immediately engaged in the same behavior,” she said.

It has been more typical for Soloway to boast about his techniques than to apologize for them. In online forums he would brag that he would never have to pay the millions of dollars the civil courts ordered him to pay.

He claims he lived in a modest household growing up but went to school with kids who were wealthier. He didn’t have friends and always figured that if he earned a lot of money, people would like him, he said. “The only time people ever talked to me was when I made money or spent it,” he said. “It was completely wrong. I’m very embarrassed and ashamed.”

Microsoft attorney Aaron Kornblum attended the hearing and said he was pleased with the results. “Soloway repeatedly broke the law. He defied a federal judge and he made a lot of money. This sends a strong message.”

Soloway was one of the first spammers Microsoft sued when, in 2003, the company decided it was time to try to put a stop to spam using legal means. At the time, Soloway was known as the third-most-prolific spammer in the world, Kornblum said.

In addition to the prison term, Soloway will serve three years of probation and must do 200 hours of community service.

The government has also asked for a separate restitution hearing.

Another notorious spammer, Eddie Davidson, escaped from his prison camp in Colorado on Sunday, authorities said Tuesday. He had been serving a 21-month sentence after pleading guilty to spam charges in December.

The “spam king” was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals.

Robert Soloway, the man known as the spam king for the massive volume of spam he sent out, pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming and tax evasion after being indicted in May 2007. After an unusually long sentencing hearing lasting two-and-a-half days, Judge Marsha Pechman handed down her sentence in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle.

The case has been closely watched because only a few such spam cases have ever been tried. A man named Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced in Virginia earlier this year to nine years in prison for his spam crimes, and Adam Vitale got slightly more than two years for a recent conviction in New York.

Netmeg - What type of issues were they ? It sounds like this was a filter issue with regards to meta titles, in which case I wouldn’t call it a penalty.

Sorry for splitting hairs - it’s just i see “remedial” works differently from things like cleaning up non compliant “link building practices” - if you get my drift.

Tedster - Do you mean consistantly ?

For what it’s worth, we have fallen into some difficult periods in the past. I remember we were pursuaded to engage in a ” same theme ” link swap network and within 2 weeks the experimental sites went quickly south - pretty much out of the index. Fortunately we recognised the error and reversed those links out. Within another 2-4 weeks our sites were back flying again [ but not as high as we were tempted to before ].

For years we grappled with duplicate content - it gave the appearance of a penalty. Eventually we understood how to manage it and the sites responded to top positions with 2-3 weeks.

I don’t believe in this for the majority of sites. Google’s guidelines are so full of interpretation with anomalies in the SERP’s , plus a competitive landscape nobody could claim to walk in a straight line of knowledge, let alone implementation.

And last of all , for that reason I have no idea if Google really forgives, particularily if you file the confession in the “reinclusion request”.

Who on earth can be fully confident and know for sure what might happen here - even inside the human reviewer’s head. Please tell me I’m wrong … i want to hear it

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jul 21, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, eight members of Yahoo!’s current Board of Directors will stand for re-election at the 2008 annual meeting: Roy Bostock, Ronald Burkle, Eric Hippeau, Vyomesh Joshi, Arthur Kern, Mary Agnes Wilderotter, Gary Wilson and Jerry Yang. In view of the settlement agreement with Mr. Icahn, and the termination of the proxy contest, Robert Kotick has decided not to stand for re-election to the Board at the 2008 annual meeting.

Following the 2008 annual meeting, the Yahoo! Board will be expanded to 11 members. Carl Icahn will be appointed to the Board and the remaining two seats will be filled by the Board upon the recommendation of the Board’s Nominating and Governance Committee from a list of nine candidates recommended by Mr. Icahn, which includes the eight remaining members of the Icahn slate of nominees and Jonathan Miller, currently a partner in Velocity Interactive Group and former Chairman and CEO of AOL.

As part of the settlement agreement, Mr. Icahn, who owns an aggregate of 68,786,320 shares, or 4.98% of Yahoo! common stock, has agreed to withdraw his nominees for consideration at the annual meeting and to vote his Yahoo! shares in support of the Board’s nominees.

“We are gratified to have reached this agreement, which serves the best interests of all Yahoo! stockholders,” said Yahoo! Chairman Roy Bostock. “We look forward to working productively with Carl and the new members of the Board on continuing to improve the Company’s performance and enhancing stockholder value. Yahoo! is a world-class company with an extremely bright future, and collaborating together, I believe we can help the Company achieve its ambitious goals.”

“This agreement will not only allow Yahoo! to put the distraction of the proxy contest behind us, it will allow the Company to continue pursuing its strategy of being the starting point for Internet users and a must buy for advertisers,” said Yahoo! Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang. “No other company in the Internet space has our unique combination of global brand, talented employees, innovative technologies and exceptional assets, attributes that will help us take advantage of the large and growing opportunity ahead of us. I look forward to working together with our new colleagues on the Board to make that happen.”

Mr. Icahn said, “I am very pleased that this settlement will allow me to work in partnership with Yahoo!’s Board and management team to help the Company achieve its full potential. While I continue to believe that the sale of the whole Company or the sale of its Search business in the right transaction must be given full consideration, I share the view that Yahoo!’s valuable collection of assets positions it well to continue expanding its online leadership and enhancing returns to stockholders. I believe this is a good outcome and that we will have a strong working relationship going forward. Additionally, I am happy that the board has agreed in the settlement agreement that any meaningful transaction, including the strategy in dealing with that transaction, will be fully discussed with the entire board before any final decision is made.”

In response to Mr. Kotick’s decision to step down from the Board, Mr. Bostock said, “I would like to personally thank Bobby for his dedicated service to Yahoo! these past 5 years. Bobby has been a valuable resource to our Board and the Company and we are grateful for his contributions. He wanted to help see the Company through this recent chapter, but made it clear to me that once the proxy contest was resolved, he was eager to focus his efforts on his work as CEO of the newly merged Activision Blizzard and his other business and civic pursuits.”

The Company intends to file the full text of the settlement agreement later today with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and will also file and mail to its stockholders, supplemental proxy material.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release (including without limitation the statements and information in the quotations in this press release) contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Yahoo!’s strategic and operational plans. Actual results may differ materially from those described in this release due to a number of risks and uncertainties. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the expected benefits of the commercial agreement with Google may not be realized, including as a result of actions taken by United States or foreign regulatory authorities and the response or acceptance of the agreement by publishers, advertisers, users and employees; the implementation and results of Yahoo!’s ongoing strategic initiatives; the impact of organizational changes; Yahoo!’s ability to compete with new or existing competitors; reduction in spending by, or loss of, marketing services customers; the demand by customers for Yahoo!’s premium services; acceptance by users of new products and services; risks related to joint ventures and the integration of acquisitions; risks related to Yahoo!’s international operations; failure to manage growth and diversification; adverse results in litigation, including intellectual property infringement claims; Yahoo!’s ability to protect its intellectual property and the value of its brands; dependence on key personnel; dependence on third parties for technology, services, content and distribution; general economic conditions and changes in economic conditions; potential continuing uncertainty arising in connection with Microsoft’s various proposals to acquire all or part of Yahoo!; the possibility that Microsoft or another person may in the future make other proposals, or take other actions which may create uncertainty for our employees, publishers, advertisers and other business partners; and the possibility of significant costs of defense, indemnification and liability resulting from stockholder litigation relating to such proposals. More information about potential factors that could affect Yahoo!’s business and financial results is included under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Yahoo!’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, as amended, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (”SEC”) and available at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. All information in this release is as of July 21, 2008, unless otherwise noted, and Yahoo! does not intend, and undertakes no duty, to update or otherwise revise the information contained in this letter.

About Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, eight members of Yahoo!’s current Board of Directors will stand for re-election at the 2008 annual meeting: Roy Bostock, Ronald Burkle, Eric Hippeau, Vyomesh Joshi, Arthur Kern, Mary Agnes Wilderotter, Gary Wilson and Jerry Yang. In view of the settlement agreement with Mr. Icahn, and the termination of the proxy contest, Robert Kotick has decided not to stand for re-election to the Board at the 2008 annual meeting.

Following the 2008 annual meeting, the Yahoo! Board will be expanded to 11 members. Carl Icahn will be appointed to the Board and the remaining two seats will be filled by the Board upon the recommendation of the Board’s Nominating and Governance Committee from a list of nine candidates recommended by Mr. Icahn, which includes the eight remaining members of the Icahn slate of nominees and Jonathan Miller, currently a partner in Velocity Interactive Group and former Chairman and CEO of AOL.

    In the clearest sign yet that online ad sales growth cannot outrun a global economic slowdown, Google reported the first-ever sequential quarterly revenue decline in its U.K. business. The dip, as reported in the company’s second-quarter earnings Thursday, cut into Google’s overall international growth, bringing it down to 52% from 55% in the first quarter.

That’s unsettling news for Google and the search sector, since overseas growth has previously been the crucial area that has helped Google strongly offset the ongoing U.S. slump.

Microsoft didn’t help lift any of the gloom in the online advertising picture. The software giant saw online ad sales grow 18% over year-ago levels, a big drop from the 39% growth rate it had in the prior quarter. Microsoft also stretched its marketshare losing streak to “four straight months,” according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt.

Google has been the beneficiary of Microsoft’s lost business, but it has not been enough to balance the declining industry growth. Overall, Google’s ad sales growth has slowed by half in less than two years, and with international ad sales, its strongest growth engine, starting to ease, the trend is likely to steepen.

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) shares fell 9% Friday after the company missed Wall Street’s profit targets. And Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) was down 8% with a miss of its own coupled with lowered guidance for the current quarter. And also on Thursday, another online advertising player pulled up lame. Net bargain finder ValueClick (VCLK) cut its 2008 sales target 10%, blaming a weakening economy.

Analysts were quick to point out some of the key factors that tainted Google’s results. For example, a big portion of Google’s profit shortfall in the quarter came from a 57% drop in interest income. Google used $3.2 billion of its invested cash to buy DoubleClick in March, bringing its interest income down to $58 million from $137 million in the year-ago quarter.

But the sales performance revealed new pockets of weakness. In the U.K., where mortgage woes have started to pull down the economy, revenue growth was 29%, down from the 39% pace in the first quarter and well off the 44% growth from the fourth quarter, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney noted in a research note Friday. The U.K. makes up about 14% of Google’s international sales.

On a conference call with analysts Thursday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that while prospects may be dimming he liked Google’s chances.

“There is obviously evidence of a slowdown in the U.S. and Europe; you read it in the paper every day. We continue to believe that we are very, very well-positioned in such a slowdown and especially if it gets worse,” Schmidt said, according to a transcript published by SeekingAlpha.com.

Google also blamed some of the problem on its own efforts to try and charge more for fewer, though more targeted ads. Pointing out that the number of Google search ads is “pretty much at an all-time low relative to the last few quarters,” Google product manager Jonathan Rosenberg said, “that’s basically our continued focus on quality. I don’t really see that changing significantly.”

Google president Sergey Brin added that the company pulled back a little too far. “There was some evidence internally that perhaps we were a little overly aggressive in decreasing coverage in this past quarter,” Brin said on the call.

Looking ahead to Yahoo’s scheduled earnings report Tuesday, some analysts have recently lowered their expectations for the No. 2 search shop. Citing slowing U.S. searches, and declining marketshare in “an increasingly difficult advertising market,” Soleil analyst Laura Martin cut her Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) second quarter sales estimate to $1.37 billion.

The analysts’ consensus estimates for Yahoo’s second quarter calls for adjusted profit of 12 cents a share on $1.37 billion in revenue. That compares with 11 cents on $1.24 billion in sales in the year-ago period.

In the clearest sign yet that online ad sales growth cannot outrun a global economic slowdown, Google reported the first-ever sequential quarterly revenue decline in its U.K. business. The dip, as reported in the company’s second-quarter earnings Thursday, cut into Google’s overall international growth, bringing it down to 52% from 55% in the first quarter.

That’s unsettling news for Google and the search sector, since overseas growth has previously been the crucial area that has helped Google strongly offset the ongoing U.S. slump.

Bill Gates doesn’t get a lot of credit these days for being a visionary. But when it comes to his relationship with Facebook, he may still be a step ahead of the rest of us. The Sun, a British tabloid, reported this year that Gates had quit his half-hour-a-day Facebook habit, partly because he was getting more than 8,000 “friend” requests daily but also because he was finding “weird fan sites about him.” (View a slideshow of several “weird fan sites.”) A Microsoft representative confirms that the boss has gone cold turkey but wouldn’t disclose whether Gates knew of a Facebook group called “Would you have sex with Bill Gates for half of his money?”

Actually, it’s a wonder that Gates was on Facebook in the first place (Microsoft’s $240 million investment in it notwithstanding). Bill Gates obviously doesn’t need to schmooze on Facebook. And neither do you, despite the pressure you’ve doubtless felt to join it (because, y’know, everyone is on Facebook). Perhaps you’re like Ben Rosen, who co-founded venture-capital fund Sevin Rosen, which has bankrolled such companies as Electronic Arts and Compaq (which he once led as C.E.O.). Rosen is hardly averse to sharing personal information online; he says his blog, BenRosen.com, has become a small social network of sorts. But he has yet to use his Facebook account. “I’m trying to figure out the utility for me,” he says.

Or perhaps, like Gates, you just find Facebook a little … creepy. Businesspeople often claim to use Facebook for vague “market research” purposes or to satisfy idle curiosity. But the social norms of social networking are still in flux, making privacy a real issue, says internet-marketing writer David Weinberger. “Younger people violate older people’s idea of proper behavior when it comes to privacy,” he says.

“It’s kind of eerie how much information is available about you on a social network,” says Michael Fertik, C.E.O. of online-privacy service ReputationDefender, “and how many conclusions, tentative or otherwise, can be made so handily, fairly or unfairly, based on that information.” Fertik estimates that all 55 of his employees use Facebook, and although he doesn’t, he’s unsettled by the all-consuming, constant-update M.O. it encourages. “I’ve seen a lot of quiet, passive-aggressive resentments and rumors that come from people just knowing that much about your business,” he says. “If you’re updating people, like, ‘I’m at a barbecue at my colleague’s house,’ someone you work with might ask, ‘Why am I not at that barbecue?’”

The ease with which Facebook can be used to broadcast your whereabouts adds a particularly disturbing dimension for executives who would surround themselves with security in real life but are lulled into complacency by Facebook’s tidy veneer. Last year, the British military sent a directive to its army units to avoid revealing their service connections online—”Be particularly careful if you are on Facebook, MySpace, or Friends Reunited”—fearing that, yes, Al Qaeda could use them to track prey. Your business competitors might not be terrorists per se, but Facebook can be useful for anyone trying to poach your M.V.P.’s.

Even social-networking evangelists are legitimately nervous about Facebook, given its fiasco last fall with Beacon, an advertising engine that automatically announced users’ activities on other sites—revealing their purchases, for example—without the users’ necessarily realizing that their every click was being chronicled. Facebook apologized, but that sort of unwitting dissemination of potentially sensitive information has strengthened the market for Connect Beam, a consultancy that sets up secure social networks for the corporate intranets of Fortune 500 companies. “Companies like Honeywell,” says Puneet Gupta, Connect Beam’s C.E.O., “could not take a chance to put their information on someone else’s cloud”—meaning on the servers of a social-networking site the company doesn’t control.

But Facebook’s ick factor in the executive suite might have as much to do with its shiny, happy world of “friendship” as with security. “There’s almost an inverse relationship between seriousness and how much you participate in social networking,” says ReputationDefender’s Fertik, laughing. That basically nails it: Facebook is simply unserious—particularly given how it prompts hard-driving business executives to regress into adolescent vernacular. “Poking” people, requesting “friends,” writing on someone’s “wall”: It’s cute when you’re in high school or college. But in a corporate environment, it sounds disingenuous and downright silly.

Ultimately, Facebook candy-coats the true nature of business relationships. And it will rot your teeth.

Or perhaps, like [Bill] Gates, you just find Facebook a little ?creepy. …But the social norms of social networking are still in flux, making privacy a real issue… “Younger people violate older people’s idea of proper behavior when it comes to privacy,”

“I have seen a lot of quiet, passive-aggressive resentments and rumors that come from people just knowing that much about your business,” he says. “If you’re updating people, like, ‘I’m at a barbecue at my colleague’s house,’ someone you work with might ask, ‘Why am I not at that barbecue?’”

Even social-networking evangelists are legitimately nervous about Facebook, given its fiasco last fall with Beacon, an advertising engine that automatically announced users’ activities on other sites evealing their purchases, for example

Last year, the British military sent a directive to its army units to avoid revealing their service connections online?quot;Be particularly careful if you are on Facebook, MySpace, or Friends Reunited”learing that, yes, Al Qaeda could use them to track prey. Your business competitors might not be terrorists per se, but Facebook can be useful for anyone trying to poach your M.V.P.

incredibly good posting today - among other things about synonyms.I’m amazed that no one else saw this - hopefully my posting this is within TOS. It should be.

There’s so much of interest in the article and other posters have homed in on a few. This paragraph grabs my attention:

“Someone searching for [bangalore] not only gets the important web pages, they also get a map, a video showing street life, traffic, etc. in Bangalore — watching this video I almost feel I am there — and at the time of writing there is relevant news and relevant blogs about Bangalore.”

When I did the suggested search on Bangalore, video aside, it was all there as the article mentions. Unfortunately the general information is supplied by Wikipedia amd the travel / tourist side by Wikitravel, but let’s not go down that alley!

For me this has serious implications. For example, if my widget site is third “best” in the world for widget information, I would guess that it will appear well out of the top ten results? Because Google will probably present in the top ten, one or maybe two informational sites, a site that has videos of widgets, another that has lots of widget pictures, a couple of blogs on widgets, a site or two containing recent widget news etc.

This may only apply to single word searches though, because a search for “bangalore travel” brings up a very different set of results (wikipedia aside!).

yestoday my mom tell me ,my sister had marry long time…

i really do not think this ,he is 19 years old,married???

when,we were small for more than 10 years ago,to play everydays together.

he have two boys now,but i have not girlfriend yet…

think about that,i maybe really need a girlfriend now,and i feed some lonely

but i am too busy,and have no time to go to think it

those years ,busy with my works, busy with my mom,busy with my websites,busy with SEO and SEM and Marketing,and much more and much more…

how can i do ? i do not know,shun qi zi ran ba~~~~~~~~`

my sister ,wash  happiness for your life,you must be happiness…