Google, Yahoo, MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links

In the first cooperative move for nearly ten years, the major search engines have unveiled a new indexing command for web authors that they all recognize, one that they hope will help reduce the link and comment spam that plagues many web sites, especially those run by bloggers.

The new "nofollow" attribute that can be associated with links was originated as an idea by Google several weeks ago and pitched past MSN and Yahoo, as well as major blogging vendors, gaining support.

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Dogpile Search Engine Builds On Its IntelliFind Technology With New Features

Dogpile has added a few new features that build on the IntelliFind technology that launched last November

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Yahoo lifted by advertising boom

Excluding profits from the sale of some investments, it made a profit of $187m (£143.2m) in the last three months of 2004, up 149% on $75m a year earlier.

Quarterly sales totalled $1.078bn, a 62% rise on 2003.

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Speeding Up Acrobat Reader

If you dread opening PDF files found in search results because of Acrobat Reader's painfully sluggish startup time, take heart: A nifty free utility tweaks Acrobat to load in a flash.

The Adobe Reader SpeedUp utility is an application from programmer Joe Cox that takes the pain out of waiting for PDF documents to load. How does it work?

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