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AOL Prepping Video Search Update

DVD quality videos and the integration of visual crawling technology from AOL’s recent purchase of the Truveo video search engine will be unveiled in AOL’s video search this week.

Yahoo Tinkers With Music Engine

An upgraded version of the Yahoo Music Engine boosts the functionality of the product so users can more easily create playlists and share them with others.

Sifry: Fifty Thousand Blog Posts Per Hour

No, that’s not Technorati founder David Sifry’s posting regimen, but a figure based on Technorati tracking about 1.2 million blog posts per day.

Take a Few Cutts from Googles Matt

Matt Cutts was recently interviewed on WebmasterRadio.fm’s SEO Rockstars show with Oilman and Webguerrilla.

Google Reader Updated

The Google Reader team have issued an update. The main new feature is a drop-down that gives you quick access to all of your labels, but the keyboard access to the same feature is a cooler: a dark gray overlay that appears when you hit g, then l.

UPDATE: CBS, Survivor Won’t Vote Off Google Video

New episodes of the reality show “Survivor” will be sold through the CBS.com website as well as Google Video and Comcast.

New Google Toolbar – Version 4

Google is about to release a new version of its toolbar.

Gotta Update Blogspot

Some people might find this interesting: According to Alexa, the contact person for all Blogger blogs is Pyra Labs Evan William.

Microsoft Releases WMF update

Ladies and gentlemen, update your computers! Microsoft announced that it would release a security update to help protect customers from exploitations of a vulnerability in the Windows Meta File (WMF) area of code in the Windows operating system on Tuesday, January 2, 2006, in response to malicious and criminal attacks on computer users that were discovered last week.

Sponsored Links Update

Well, the last month has been entertaining and educational.

It’s…Another Yahoo Index Update

The Sixth Weather Report from Yahoo Search should be completed sometime today, and site publishers will want to look and see where they may be placed.

Has Yahoo! Cooled Its Temper?

Some activity in the Webmaster World forum is suggesting website operators can get out of Yahoo!’s penalty box for good behavior a bit faster and easier than they used to. Though the length of the penalty is unclear, Yahoo! may forgive and forget in less than a week.

Google’s Jagger Update – Dust Begins to Settle?
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What happened? Webmaster’s, site owners, online businesses and SEO companies everywhere have been desperately trying to decipher the fallout from the longest and most grueling algorithm update in the history of the Internet.

Yahoo and Google Algo Update Information

Yahoo announced yesterday that a minor update to its ranking algorithm was implemented over the weekend.

Has the Second Leg of Jagger Helped Matters?

With the drama and havoc caused by the first Jagger update, practically everyone who keeps tabs on their Google performance has been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Well, according to famed Google engineer (and fellow Kentuckian) Matt Cutts, this proverbial shoe is indeed dropping as I type.

Is It Time To Update Your Resume?
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The motto “Be prepared,” isn’t just great advice for Boy Scouts; it’s also great career advice. You never know when the perfect career opportunity will present itself. If a recruiter called you today with your dream job, would you be prepared to send out an up-to-date resume right away?

Colleges Face $7 Billion Security Update

To comply with federal wiretap requirements, universities in the US will have to upgrade a lot of expensive hardware and are complaining about the cost.

Skype Update Actually A Trojan

A fake update to the Skype VoIP client has been circulating via email, and installs an IRC bot on victims’ computers.

Microsoft/Google Suit Update

Earlier today, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte issued a stay on the Google suit against Microsoft over the hiring of former Microsoft executive Dr. Kai Fu Lee. Whyte put the tentative decision on the web last night and met with Google and Microsoft today in court.

Update: Yahoo Pedophile Chat Room Closing

In an announcement earlier today, the Nebraska and New York State Attorney’s General issued a statement regarding their collaboration with Yahoo in the removal of user-created chat rooms promoting pedophilia.

Apple Plugging Security Holes

The latest security update for the Mac operating system patches ten critical holes, ranging from potential privilege elevation to arbitrary code execution.