The latest variant of the MyDoom virus, MyDoom.C, is making its way through the Internet, but not at the same amazing pace of its older brother. The virus has been modified to find only those computers previously infected with the virus, which should limit it to around 500,000 computers.
Bray On Search
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Posted in Internet Search
Tim Bray, an early pioneer in the creation of Internet search engines, has published a series of essays called On Search, the Series. Chris Sherman reviews the essays over at SearchDay.
Check the Grid
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Posted in Internet Search
Tara Calishain mentioned an interesting search tool the other day — SearchGrid lets you try out different combinations of search phrases, and tells you how many results Google will bring back for that particular search. Very interesting.
Research that comes to you from Copernic Tracker
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Posted in Software
Copernic, the company that makes the great Copernic Agent meta-search product, has introduced the Copernic Tracker, a utility that automatically monitors websites for you and notifies you of any changes or new additions.
I love products like this — I have been using Website Watcher for some time now, and I love it.…
Blawg of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Matthew Homann, a lawyer from Highland Illinois, has been blogging over at the [non]billable hour for a few weeks now, and he’s got some great content. Matthew and I both are interested in high school mock trial competitions, so I feel like I know him already.
Lost And Found Via RSS
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Ray Matthews over at RSS in Government discovered an interesting application of RSS technology: lost and found items. Over in the United Kingdom, Bumblebee Auctions offers items up for auction as part of the UK Police Property Disposal program. Just subscribe to one of the RSS feeds, and receive immediate notification when new items
Network Lawyers takes on Search Engines
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Posted in Search Engines
This week, the Network-Lawyers group is holding a seminar on search engines hosted by yours truly and my new friend Kathy Biehl. We are incredibly fortunate to have a fantastic panel of experts to discuss the topic: Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch, Tara Calashain from ResearchBuzz (as well as several…
Zip It….Zip It Good
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Posted in Security
Anyone who received a copy of the MyDoom virus may have recognized that the bug came concealed inside a Zip file, which is a relatively new and evil way of concealing viruses and other bad things. I say evil, because zip files are commonly used to send larger documents or files via e-mail. Microsoft…
Become a search hacker
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Posted in Search Engines
Tired of the same old search engines? Think you can build a better search engine on your own? Now you’ve got help, with the new publicationSpidering Hacks. The book offers tips and tools for creating and running your own spiders, those software creatures that are used by search engines to discover web pages…
Blogs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- Collin Canright and Christina Paule Canright publish the Business Writing & Design Blog, with news, comment, analysis, opinion, and inspiration on writing and design in business and technology.
- Nipper’s Patent Law Blog is the blog-child of Stephen Nipper, a patent attorney working in Idaho.