07.29.04
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New MyDoom Worm Variant Affects Search Engines Too
New MyDoom Worm Variant Affects Search Engines Too
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A new MyDoom worm variant, MyDoom.M@mm, was discovered on July 26. Computers affected by the worm are used to perform queries on various search engines to harvest email addresses. According to reports, a significant number of computers were affected by the worm and as a result, affected computers caused some amount of strain on popular search engines, including Lycos, Altavista, Yahoo, and Google.
According to Symantec’s analysis, the worm collects email addresses from a user’s system by parsing various files such as the Outlook address book file, as well as files with common extension (.asp, .php, .pl, .dbx, and others) known to sometimes contain email address. The worm spreads by emailing copies of itself to harvested email addresses using its own built-in SMTP engine, where the email might appear to be a mail delivery error message from a mail given server.
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07.28.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:05 pm by Bill
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Australian IT - MSN fires up search engine (Lara Sinclair, JULY 29, 2004)
MSN fires up search engine
Lara Sinclair
JULY 29, 2004
MICROSOFT’S internet arm MSN is investing $US5 billion ($7 billion) to create a search revolution where users will be able to pose questions and receive real answers - all without leaving the comfort of the MSN web site and the reach of its advertisers.
MSN global senior director of strategy Christa Davies said the company wanted its search service to be able to locate music and images of individual faces, among other things, and provide answers to questions on the MSN site. It may then, for instance, offer to sell a download of a new single or video clip.
Microsoft’s new search engine is set to launch in some form before the end of the year, increasing its global access to the fast-growing search advertising dollar in competition with Google, the Yahoo-owned paid search provider Overture and the recently launched Sensis search service in Australia.
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MSNBC Newsbot
MSNBC’s newsbot is an automated test scan of the Net’s most current headlines and is designed to enhance the breadth of MSNBC.com
The MSNBC Newsbot (beta), powered by MSN Search Technology, is an experimental, automated news service. Newsbot gathers news from over 4,800 sources on the Internet to speed your discovery of the information you care about most. Enter a topic, interest, or news story you want to learn more about and MSNBC Newsbot will bring you up-to-the-minute coverage from around the Internet. Newsbot is built on advanced computer algorithms to determine which stories and photos are most relevant, most popular, and to recommend stories to individual readers based on their interests.
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MSNBC Newsbot
MSNBC’s newsbot is an automated test scan of the Net’s most current headlines and is designed to enhance the breadth of MSNBC.com
The MSNBC Newsbot (beta), powered by MSN Search Technology, is an experimental, automated news service. Newsbot gathers news from over 4,800 sources on the Internet to speed your discovery of the information you care about most. Enter a topic, interest, or news story you want to learn more about and MSNBC Newsbot will bring you up-to-the-minute coverage from around the Internet. Newsbot is built on advanced computer algorithms to determine which stories and photos are most relevant, most popular, and to recommend stories to individual readers based on their interests.
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MSNBC Newsbot
MSNBC’s newsbot is an automated test scan of the Net’s most current headlines and is designed to enhance the breadth of MSNBC.com
The MSNBC Newsbot (beta), powered by MSN Search Technology, is an experimental, automated news service. Newsbot gathers news from over 4,800 sources on the Internet to speed your discovery of the information you care about most. Enter a topic, interest, or news story you want to learn more about and MSNBC Newsbot will bring you up-to-the-minute coverage from around the Internet. Newsbot is built on advanced computer algorithms to determine which stories and photos are most relevant, most popular, and to recommend stories to individual readers based on their interests.
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Read All About It: MSNBC.com Launches Newsbot Beta Powered by MSN Search Technology
Consumer Feedback Will Guide Development of a Personalized, Virtual Newsstand
REDMOND, Wash. — July 27, 2004 — MSNBC.com today begins its test of the MSNBC Newsbot, a new way to give consumers personalized online news powered by the latest MSN® search technology. For a limited time starting today, consumers may participate in testing this first-of-its-kind “personal newsstand” service that automatically taps user preferences to search for news from more than 4,800 sources.
“We’ve put the strongest assets of MSN and NBC News to work for consumers with MSNBC.com Newsbot, the only news search engine on the Web that offers personalized news using advanced MSN Search technology,” said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN Information Services and Merchant Platform. “By providing a variety of ways to personalize the service, people have more control over how and where they get their news, which we’re confident will convince people to return every day, much as they would to a neighborhood newsstand.”
“The alliance between MSN and MSNBC.com offers an unmatched opportunity to provide consumers with the news that matters to them most — organized by their interests in real time,” said Charlie Tillinghast, general manager and publisher of MSNBC.com. “We want our users to be able to have a one-stop shop for their information-gathering needs, and MSNBC.com Newsbot provides them with unlimited access in their quest for that information.”
MSNBC Newsbot, which can be found at http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com/, is launching in beta form so MSNBC.com can better understand the user experience. The Associated Press is participating with MSNBC.com in the test to evaluate this emerging market segment of online news by authorizing use of its AP Online product, which includes top national and international news. When Newsbot makes its ultimate return to the site, it will be unprecedented in both its scope and ease of use.
“Neighborhood Newsstand” Provided by MSN Search Technology
Similar to MSN Newsbot offerings in 16 international markets, MSNBC.com Newsbot will extend the advanced search technology of MSN to the trusted news environment of MSNBC.com. This online search capability is comprehensive enough for the most voracious news junkies, yet personalized enough to automatically provide readers with stories tailored to their interests. MSNBC.com Newsbot delivers headlines in seven different categories of news and information, and offers consumers suggested news stories based on what they have read previously. It also provides readers with recommended links to the hottest news stories at any given hour. Specific features include the following:
Around-the-clock crawling by Moreover Technologies of stories from virtually every major news organization around the globe, including the Web sites of major newspapers and leading television and cable news Web sites, as well as regional stories from the online publications of 50 metropolitan news organizations around the United States
News headlines clustered in seven categories — U.S. news, world news, sports, entertainment, business, science and health, and technology — to make it easy to compare coverage from different publications
Access to the complete text of each story by clicking on the link to the publisher’s site, which accompanies each headline
News-Search Service Extends Microsoft, NBC News Alliance
MSNBC.com Newsbot is the latest collaborative offering from Microsoft Corp. and NBC News. In 1996, the two companies created MSNBC, a joint-venture online and television news service. MSNBC.com also is featured on MSN Alerts, and MSN Video service is used for all video segments offered on MSNBC.com. MSNBC.com Newsbot is one of the newest components of Microsoft’s overall strategy for offering its customers the most advanced and convenient search tools on the Web.
About MSN
MSN attracts more than 350 million unique users worldwide per month. With localized versions available globally in 38 markets and 18 languages, MSN is a world leader in delivering Web services to consumers and online advertising opportunities to businesses worldwide. The most useful and innovative online service today, MSN brings consumers everything they need from the Web to make the most of their time online. MSN is located on the Web at http://www.msn.com/. MSN worldwide sites are located at http://www.msn.com/worldwide.ashx.
About MSNBC.com
MSNBC.com is a leader in breaking news and original journalism on the Internet. MSNBC.com delivers the best of NBC News, MSNBC Cable, CNBC, NBC Sports, MSN and Newsweek. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable and Internet joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Microsoft and MSN are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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SEM Industry Observer, Meredith A.C. Roth, Announces Search Engine Strategies Best of the Best (and Worst Dressed…) SES San Jose, August 2-5, 2004
It’s SEO Tip number one: The brains of Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization are sartorially challenged. Here’s an “SEM Top 10″ of folks you want to know. They’ll be easy to spot and essential to your search engine marketing strategy.
New York, NY and San Jose (PRWEB) July 28, 2004 — Wanna hook up with the smartest people in the Search Engine Marketing biz? Look for the worst dressed. It’s SEO Tip number one: The brains of Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization are sartorially challenged. Here’s an “SEM Top 10″ of folks you want to know. They’ll be easy to spot and essential to your search engine marketing strategy:
10- Moderator extraordinaire Chris Sherman, a devotee of business too-casual, can connect you with every player in the search engine business.
9- There’s SEO-PR whiz Greg Jarboe, whom you should e-mail if you haven’t started optimizing your PR efforts already. He’s the bearded guy you’d vote least-likely-to-be-in-public relations.
8- One of the most engaging and entertaining speakers on the search circuit is FutureNow’s Bryan Eisenberg. He can work wonders for your site and its conversion. An undershirt would work wonders for him.
7-Yahoo! VP Jeff Weiner is truly one of the industry’s young turks and brilliant strategists. For all the color he adds to the industry, his pale-on-pale visage makes for a bland contradiction.
6- Then comes the “MOMS,” Mothers Of Marketing Search…But do they have to look like it? Industry mavens looking more like a PTA panel than SEM, you have Shari Thurow, Karen Breen Vogel, and one of my favorites, Stacy Williams. Stacy, bring back the funk that inspired your piercing!
5- At the other extreme, you have Heather Lloyd-Martin in skirts up to here…think an 80s version of Ally McBeal. This author and industry executive is wonderful at guiding your web site copywriting, specifically to gain success with the search engines.
4- Lloyd-Martin’s other half is Detlev Johnson, long-time industry insider and great guy in need of Bravo’s Fab 5.
3- We’ve all been guilty of donning our logoed “boothwear” well past its prime, (hint: any time past the booming 90s), but web analytics expert, Kevin Lee, takes it to extreme. Do those Did-it duds come in undies too?
2- Industry maverick, author and CEO, Mike Grehan is in a class by himself. Catch his panel session and you’ll be thoroughly entertained, enthralled and educated. His look? 100% Spinal Tap.
1- Finally, there’s the industry’s guru of gurus, Danny Sullivan. He’s dapper-dressed when he takes the podium, but for what industry? He resides in England…so maybe it’s a city of London send-up. Cheerio!
Search Engine Marketing is an industry still defining itself. At the Net nexus of technology, advertising and wherever your imagination takes you, Search combines the greatest intellects of myriad disciplines, still in the throws of determining what Search Engine Marketing means. Yet to develop: the industry’s collective image.
Next Time: The Women of Search?? No industry, burgeoning or otherwise, would be complete without a list of its beautiful people. Luckily, Search has its fair share of “lush” executives. You’ll be sure to see that crowd at John Battelle’s forthcoming Web 2.0 conference this Fall.
Meredith A.C. Roth, Search Engine Marketing industry observer, specializes as an Executive Publicist and Image Consultant based in New York. Clients accepted by referral only.
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07.27.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:59 pm by Bill
Arizona State University adds program in managing spas
Arizona State University adds program in managing spas
Jul. 27, 2004 12:00 AM
Before Arizona State University dramatically improved its academic standing people joked about it being a school of leisure, calling it Tempe Country Club, or the “Spa on the Salt.”
Now, students can get serious about leisurely pursuits through ASU’s certification program in spa management, the only certificate program of its kind at an American university, a school spokesman says.
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Arizona State University adds program in managing spas
Arizona State University adds program in managing spas
Jul. 27, 2004 12:00 AM
Before Arizona State University dramatically improved its academic standing people joked about it being a school of leisure, calling it Tempe Country Club, or the “Spa on the Salt.”
Now, students can get serious about leisurely pursuits through ASU’s certification program in spa management, the only certificate program of its kind at an American university, a school spokesman says.
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