SEO

There are some technical specialties that not only provide great employment opportunities, but also create the possibility of using them to start your own business. The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of these skill sets.

Paxfire disputes that it 'hijacks' search requests from ISP customers, gathers personal information and uses it covertly. BAH! It fixes and redirects searches, stores data to improve future searches and gives results enhanced with information from its partners. So there.

Google is retuning its search algorithms to weed out content farms that waste readers' time with keyword-stuffed Web sites that waste time in a bad way.

If you're into search engine optimization intrigue, check out this article in Saturday's New York Times about how retailer J.C. Penney for months used "black hat" SEO techniques to rig Google search results in hits favor -- and how it got caught.

Internet content farm Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) finished its first day of trading on Wall Street at $22.65, up 33.2 percent from the offer price of $17 per share.

Security researchers are looking into not just how Koobface infects users’ PCs, but how its creators manage to spread the worm across popular social networking sites to maximize its effectiveness.