Sitestimator.com - Site Value Estimation Tool » search engine http://www.sitestimator.com/blog Site Value Estimation Tool Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:03:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Michael Jackson’s Death Makes Google Panic http://www.sitestimator.com/blog/2009/07/05/michael-jacksons-death-makes-google-panic/ http://www.sitestimator.com/blog/2009/07/05/michael-jacksons-death-makes-google-panic/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:45:24 +0000 hau http://www.sitestimator.com/blog/?p=34 Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News on 25 June 2009 makes Google interpreted it as an attack on its service.

Google News was inaccessible for some people who perform searches on Google News with the Michael Jackson related keywords and showed the users with following message:

“We’re sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.”

Michael Jackson Searches

Read more at CNET.

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The searches are based on tagging system. Each icon has tags. Every search will be matched by the tag of the icons. Anyone can edit the tag to make it more relevant to the icon itself. The tag’s information is controlled by “voting” system where the tags are reversed to the previous stage if it doesn’t get enough “thumbs up”-votes.

Iconfinder

Visit http://www.iconfinder.net/ to find the icons you looking for.

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The recent news and events from are Google Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center :

8/17/07

What’s new in the world of invalid clicks?

This Inside AdWords blog post highlights recent initiatives by the Ad Traffic Quality team.

8/21/07

Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference in San Jose, CA

Shuman Ghosemajumder, business product manager for Trust & Safety at Google, presents at the ‘Search Engines on Click Fraud’ panel. Learn more.

8/29/07

Second AdWords Advertiser Invalid Click Forum in New York, NY

AdWords advertisers visit Google’s New York office to learn more about invalid clicks from our team of experts. The day will include presentations and opportunities to discuss ad traffic quality issues with Google engineers and other specialists.

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  • Click protection system
  • Click investigation
  • Tips on monitoring your sites’ traffic

The traffic quality center is a great resource that can help advertisers understand the quality of traffic. It protects advertisers from fraud clicks with its click protection system and the dedicated traffic quality team. The other products that help advertisers to build up quality traffic are such as

  • Quality-based pricing
  • Blocked domains
  • Blocked continents

For more information about Traffic Quality Center, visit http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/trafficquality/

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