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Porn sites hack search engines
News Munoz, 39, president and CEO of NewWorld.com, which owns avault.com, believes that someone stole his site's so-called "meta" tag -- an invisible description search engines use to categorise information.
[August 19, 1999, 13:14]
Manipulating keywords to boost search rankings
News As a result, all the major search engines now ignore the keyword meta tag completely or give its contents very low priority in their page-ranking algorithms. Some search engines don't ignore the keyword meta tag completely but, rather, discount it...
[February 5, 2004, 10:30]
Hate site distorts King's dream
News Meta tag information included in the site's source code, which is used by search engines to categorise Web sites, lists words like "civil rights", "Jesse Jackson", "Rosa Parks", and "NAACP" in an attempt to appear during searches for those words.
[January 26, 2000, 12:20]
Cuban offers Web 2.0 a reminder of things past
News On his investment in Mamma.com -- a "meta" search engine that few people heard of before its stock surged on the Internet-search hype -- he said once it entered into "pipe level" financing, he had to get out.
[October 7, 2004, 15:30]
Big names in the frame to replace Fiorina
News said Meta Group analyst Nick Gall. I would also look at John Joyce from IBM, where he's been running a huge business for them," said David Nosal, a CEO search consultant. Although he is good at operations, HP's board may have a public-relations...
[February 10, 2005, 16:20]
IBM launches collaboration initiative
News Malibu, which is currently being used by IBM employees, is similar to Microsoft's Center for Information Work software for harnessing meta data. It searches and pairs RSS feeds, emails, tasks and social bookmarks to easily search and manage the...
[March 29, 2007, 9:43]
Towards a Semantic Web
News In its current format, raw HTML text and images contain meta-information that is readily understandable by a human, but has little or no meaning to computer programs. For instance, popular search engines can help you locate files containing...
[January 31, 2005, 15:05]
Tech salaries defy slump
News The latest figures from Meta Group's 2003 IT Staffing and Compensation Guide, which polled companies in 14 industries across 40 countries, show salaries in IT have continued to rise over the past year, against a backdrop of declining overall...
[April 4, 2003, 8:51]
Are doodles the key to an effective search?
News The program fashions similar icons for files with similar names, and icons can be grouped under a thematic meta-icon. More recently, Google, Apple Computer, Microsoft and others have announced plans to release search tools that will scour hard...
[October 5, 2004, 9:35]
Australian IT execs suffering 'information fatigue'
News John Brand, Meta Group senior programme director, today said that emotional and psychological conditions such as "change-rage" and "information fatigue" are now commonplace throughout the industry, as its workforce adjusts to new global market...
[March 24, 2003, 8:47]
US Report: McAfee Online - next-generation portal?
News said analyst Alexis DePlanque with Meta Group. The company has already partnered with Beyond.com to expand the software it offers, and, as first reported by ZDNet, will soon begin offering a search engine and tech information from CNet.
[December 9, 1998, 10:05]
Blogger seeks credit for Amazon 'adult' book furore
News Nice meta-troll, though," Durrell wrote on his blog. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search. Weev said he figured out that he could get the books removed from search rankings...
[April 14, 2009, 9:22]
IT industry morale hits new low
News The latest Meta Group research, the IT Staffing and Compensation Guide, has found 71 percent of IT managers citing burn out and low morale as serious problems. Maria Schafer, Meta's IT Human Capital Management Strategies programme director, said in...
[March 24, 2003, 8:47]
P3P: A green light for privacy on the Web? Part II
News Initially a lot of the applications people envisioned labeling sites (by) attaching meta-data. In fact, at the bake-off, developers talked about enhancing search engines with the ability to rank sites according to how consumer-friendly their...
[July 5, 2000, 13:54]
IMSI Web tools a fix for Net junkies
News They are the meta-search package WebSleuth Lite, a Net anti-virus toolkit, WinPack32 Deluxe file compression utility, Gravity Lite newsreader, Jackhammer tool for background accessing of busy Web sites, and the NetJumper automatic bookmarking of...
[February 6, 1998, 10:54]
Two new UK ways to search the Net
News NetVision's PowerSearch UK is a Java-based meta-search product that uses international search engines to search for UK and international sites, and data held in newsgroups, FTP files or e-mail addresses.
[February 9, 1998, 15:09]
Protect your privacy when searching online
News Ixquick.com is what's known as a meta-search engine. AOL's publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users should reinforce an important point: What you type in online may not be as private as you think.
[August 10, 2006, 16:50]
Google readying Web-only video search
News It provides all those companies with a video content feed, which includes 'meta data' or descriptive language that defines the content for automated indexing by the search engines. Google also has to work with content publishers on labeling their...
[June 14, 2005, 12:50]
Net search-and-present tool threatens giants
News The precision of its "narrowcast searches" coupled with the analytical and document building tools could change expectations about Web navigation services, according to Marc Butlein, chairman of the Meta Group Inc.consulting firm and a member of...
[January 30, 1998, 9:50]
Search tool scans blogs for business
News The information is aggregated into a sort of meta-blog arranged according to the client's requirements and the data can be delivered as a feed or as a "metabase", a constantly updated XML database. Moreover Technologies, which provides aggregated...
[September 18, 2003, 17:20]
