Thursday, June 2, 2005, Google has just launched a beta service called Google Sitemap, which helps supplement its Web crawling technology in order to better index dynamic content and frequently refreshed pages. In other words, It is like pinging the search engine’s crawler at Web pages and tell it when content is updated. So, it might be very helpful for website that frequently update its files.
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Google Sitemap

Microsoft announced on Friday, June 3, 2005, hackers targeted its popular MSN Web site in South Korea to try to steal passwords from visitors. However, the company said it was unclear how many Internet users might have been victimized.

Microsoft said Thursday it cleaned the Web site, www.msn.co.kr, and removed the dangerous software code that unknown hackers had added earlier this week on its news page. More details emerged Friday about the hacking, which targeted subscribers of an online game called “Lineage” that is popular in Asia.
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MSN Site Hacked In South Korea

Some of the following Xbox 360 peripherals will be available in this holiday season in Europe, Japan and North America.

Xbox Live Camera


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With the Xbox Live Camera, video chat and video messaging with your friends becomes more than just a feature set; it is an integrated part of the Xbox Live experience.

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Xbox 360 Peripherals

Dell introduced the Dimension 9100 on Wednesday, June 1, 2005, a redesigned premium desktop computer that delivers high-end performance, multimedia technologies and proactive support to help customers more easily manage digital content and information.

By announcing this high end model, Dell become the first major vendor to ship 500-GB1 Serial ATA 2 hard drives on the Dimension XPS Gen 5 desktop, which is designed for gamers and multimedia enthusiasts.

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Dell Workstation With 500Gig Hdd

Don’t know why suddenly so many surveys done regarding Internet security. Yesterday, I just posted the result of a survey titled “Is web browser choice a factor affecting security“; today I just came across another security survey done on “Online Security”.

For the study, titled “Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline” and released Thursday, June 02, 2005, 1500 adult U.S. Internet users were asked true-or-false questions about topics such as Web site privacy policies and retailers’ pricing schemes.
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Are You Savvy About Online Security

We have seen lots of innovative services from Google Labs. Yahoo! does have similar lab too, called Yahoo! Research Lab.

Recently, Yahoo! offering is a test version of Yahoo! Mindset.

Yahoo! Mindset allows you to sort search results for your query into commercial or non-commercial (informational) results, based on whether you’re shopping or seeking information. Commercial implies that the primary purpose of a given page is to sell you something. Whereas, informational implies that the primary purpose of the page is to provide information related to your search.

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There is a slider bar is the search page, which allows you to move it to the right for commercial results and to the left for non-commercial results. The result will change immediately while you are sliding the bar.

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Really hope to see the searching results can be tweaked to suit different goals in real action soon. With these tweaks we can get specific searching result rather than meaningless ads in our search. :)