The New Standard for Search Privacy

There are really only two legal/ethical issues that are regularly lodged against search engines: copyrights and privacy. The copyright debate has taken its way to courts across the world and has resulted in several technologies which empower webmasters to protect their copyrighted information. No fewer than 4 separate standards: robots.txt, nocache, noindex, and nofollow, allow webmasters to opt-out of indexing, caching, and other search engine activites which may violate or endanger their copyright. How many standards exist to protect privacy? Until today, none. I am proud to introduce #privacy (http://www.poundprivacy.org), the new search standard for privacy. The concept is fairly simple: searchers should be able to opt out of tracking mechanisms when they...

LinkFromDomain, MSN, and New Tool…

So, finally one of the search engines decided to add a linkfromdomain: command. This is incredibly useful as it allows sites to tell who they are linking to, which in turn can be used for all kinds of useful things such as… Bad Neighborhood Tools: http://www.virante.com/resources/free-tools/banned-sites.php Percentage Reciprocating: http://www.virante.com/resources/free-tools/percentage-reciprocal.php This will check the first 100 links in MSN for your site and tell if they are not indexed by google (an indication of banning). Thank you MSN. No tags for this...