Be careful: This is one clever attack vector.
As Mozilla Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin describes it, the attack is as elegant as it is simple: A user has multiple tabs open, and surfs to a site that uses special javacript code to silently alter the contents of a tabbed page along with the information displayed [...]
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Google Likes Speed
In a world with increasing technology, there is little doubt that time is of the essence. Apparently, Google agrees with this thought, as the search engine giant has decided to factor website speeds into search rankings.
The decision has been at least a few months in the making, as Google hinted at the possibility of using website speeds to determine search engine placement back near the end of 2009. It is a sure bet now, however, as they just announced that speed will be added to the overall equation.
Does this mean that speed will be the overriding factor in where websites place? No, it does not. In fact site speed, or more specifically, the rate at which a website responds to requests, is just a tiny piece of the overall search engine ranking puzzle. This should come as a ...
The decision has been at least a few months in the making, as Google hinted at the possibility of using website speeds to determine search engine placement back near the end of 2009. It is a sure bet now, however, as they just announced that speed will be added to the overall equation.
Does this mean that speed will be the overriding factor in where websites place? No, it does not. In fact site speed, or more specifically, the rate at which a website responds to requests, is just a tiny piece of the overall search engine ranking puzzle. This should come as a ...
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