Has Your Site Been Hacked? Here is How to Find Out

In a recent interview with Matt Cutts (a popular software engineer from Google that handles Spam) on WebmasterRadio Matt noted that Google has run across a few sites that had been hacked and in a manner that wasn’t immediately apparent to the site owners. Jim...

A Bigdaddy Timeline, Courtesy of Google’s Matt Cutts

Sometime around January or February, a number of webmasters began to notice that Google had somehow “lost” huge portions of their websites. Reference to their sites, generally to the index pages and a seemingly random selection of internal pages existed in...

AOL Adopts New Name, Now Known as AOL

The search engine, web portal formerly known as America Online has changed its name to that of its acronym, AOL. “Our company long ago accomplished the mission implied by our old name. We literally got America online,” said Jon Miller, chairman and chief...

Lycos Responds to Lights out Rumour

Yesterday I printed a rumour circulating through the search marketing world that Lycos was giving up the ghost of organic search. The story stemmed from a blog posting from John Battelle who I consider to be one of the most credible and well informed observers in the...