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Yahoo! has rolled out new search index on 22nd May night and I believe it has been completed. I haven’t seen major fluctuation in my client’s keywords in search ranking yet after a week now. I wish it has been a good weather update as far as my concern 
During the surfing I reached at Nick Carr’s most recent article (Google preparing to police web). According to his article Google plan is to use new software which automatically identify compromised web pages in its database and label them as “potentially harmful” in its search results.
He has used the reference of Google engineers’ written papers on the subject, The Ghost in the Browser, where Google explains how Google is preparing to respond to the threat by incorporating an automated security analysis into its routine spidering and indexing of sites:
To address this problem and to protect users from being infected while browsing the web, we have started an effort to identify all web pages on the Internet that could potentially be malicious. Google already crawls billions of web pages on the Internet. We apply simple heuristics to the crawled pages repository to determine which pages attempt to exploit web browsers. The heuristics reduce the number of URLs we subject to further processing significantly. The pages classified as potentially malicious are used as input to instrumented browser instances running under virtual machines. Our goal is to observe the malware behavior when visiting malicious URLs and discover if malware binaries are being downloaded as a result of visiting a URL. Web sites that have been identified as malicious, using our verification procedure, are labeled as potentially harmful when returned as a search result. Marking pages with a label allows users to avoid exposure to such sites and results in fewer users being infected.
As far as my concerns, it is good if Google remove these type of sites from their index completely and re-include after clean up. That would take care of the intentionally malicious sites, because Google has good share in search traffic.
Google has launched a mobile version of Google Calendar, now you access your calendar from your mobile phone. Google describes it more in a blog post today. It appears to work on a range of phones, including Windows Mobile.
Helpful Internet resources and search marketing resources sorted into categories such as web standards, CSS, typography, colour tools and stock photography.
As an individual you can consider a free blogging platform to start with, but I would urge you to check if the URL matching your chosen blog name URL is available. If not-consider changing the name. Don’t fuss to much about a ‘dot com’ id in today’s times of powerful search even a ‘dot in’ would work well and may sometimes be more relevant. If possible block the URL – it costs just a few hundred Rupees but then you won’t have to worry about availability, if the blog takes off and you wish to move to your own domain name.
Any platform you choose today will give you dozens of template options to pick from – go ahead and use any – you can change them at any point in time.
If you are a corporate or a big brand, you blog will prove to be a very important communication tool, internally and externally, do ensure that it lives the personality of your brand. Spend sometime and money, work with professionals who could help you on usability, customization, design, valueadds based on your needs and indeed with advice on what you can do with a blog. Remember, a blog is just a tool, what you do with it is what makes it powerful or useless.
