-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Colbert Bump - Firefox 3 Proves its Existence
,----[ Quote ]
| Many of us at Mozilla and within the Mozilla community were excited when
| Stephen Colbert gave Firefox 3 his “Colbert Bump” on the day of Firefox 3’s
| launch (a big thanks to Jonathan Zittrain). You can watch the video here.
`----
http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2008/07/08/colbert-bump-firefox-3-proves-its-existence/
Firefox is King
,----[ Quote ]
| Mozilla Firefox is now the king of all browsers. --At least based on the web
| traffic data gathered from junauza.com and from a popular tech blog by known
| Windows Vista fanboy user Jeff Atwood. Firefox tops all other web browsers
| and most importantly kicked its archrival Internet Explorer out of the
| highest position.
`----
http://www.junauza.com/2008/07/firefox-is-king.html
Internet Explorer is in its %teens. It's the same over here.
As shown recently, a lot of IE 'traffic' is Windows zombies and other bots
(examples below).
Yesterday:
Is Linux Getting the Shaft?
,----[ Quote ]
| So I went and looked. Here is the description of the database used by the
| Market Share service that everyone seems to rely on:
|
|
| We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive
| on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from
| approximately 160 million visitors per month. The information published
| is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website
| statistics. The site unique visitor and referral information is
| summarized on a monthly basis.
|
| WTF?
|
| Is this supposed to be some kind of unbiased sample? But wait, there's
| more...
|
| [...]
|
| The complexity of this problem is actually rather large. But I can tell you
| one thing: If you were my graduate student and you came to me with this
| sampling strategy, I'd send you back to kindergarten. (If I had that power.)
`----
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/07/is_linux_getting_the_shaft.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
Last week:
AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6
,----[ Quote ]
| In late February, AVG paired its updated anti-virus engine with a real-time
| malware scanner that vets search engine results before you click on them. If
| you search Google, for instance, this LinkScanner automatically visits each
| address that turns up on Google's results page.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/avg_disguises_fake_traffic_as_ie6/
How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew
,----[ Quote ]
| This has caused an enormous spike in traffic on sites across the web,
| including The Register, and many webmasters may not realize where these hits
| are coming from. Hoping to fool malware writers, LinkScanner mimics real live
| human clicks. At least in part.
|
| [...]
|
| To avoid confusion, we've updated this story to point out that webmasters are
| filtering traffic by identifying both the missing HTTP header and the IE6
| agent. It should also be noted that LinkScanner seems to be using two other
| user agents. But these are far less prevalent. At the moment, these are the
| three user agents the product seems to employ:
|
| Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
|
| User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
|
| User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;1813)
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/02/linkscanner_fake_traffic_temporary_fix/
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
,----[ Quote ]
| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
`----
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
,----[ Quote ]
| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's
| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search
| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search
| engine.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds
| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for
| people actually using Live Search."
`----
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092
Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
,----[ Quote ]
| Dear reader, please tell me: what do you think of a search engine that steals
| (bandwidth and AdSense revenue), lies, spams away, and is not clever enough
| to stop their criminal activities when they’re caught?
|
| Recently a Live Search rep whined in an interview because so many robots.txt
| files out there block their crawler...
`----
http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/microsoft-live-search-the-downfall-of-a-tiny-search-engine/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkh2eyYACgkQU4xAY3RXLo5ufACaAjLkNKVEexIpIhYm/vGie5bY
qF4AoIr4QEJ8V74CVIV15yk5qmtwTUPw
=Gvhb
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
