Summary Box: Best Buy Web site probe
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TWO WEB SITES: A probe by the Connecticut attorney general centers on two nearly identical Best Buy Web sites &#151; the one available to the public, the other only to employees &#151; that featured varying prices on some merchandise.
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Few precise details of the product are known although the company has been releasing tidbits of information.
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What's new in search? Found in the forums: Content on an E-commerce Site; Implications of CSS Layouts on SEO; First Year at SES NY; and more.
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New features designed to alert users if the site they are visiting is legitimate or a phishing site.
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The new features  include a section on the home page called "What's Hot," where Shopping.com staffers will highlight what they consider to be remarkable products.
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(InfoWorld) - A vulnerability in Ask.com's toolbar for Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to take control of a person's computer, according to security advisories. The problem concerns a buffer overflow flaw in the toolbar and involves an ActiveX control, according to an advisory posted by security vendor Secunia APS, which rated the problem as "highly critical," its second most severe rating. It affects version 4.0.2 of the toolbar and possibly others. Proof-of-concept exploit code for the vulnerability has been publicly posted on other disclosure forums, with a person named "Joey Mengele" credited with finding the flaw. Ask.com officials contacted in London were not immediately able to comment. The Ask.com toolbar sits below the address bar and can perform a variety of category-specific searches, such as weather information, stock quotes, or search a person's desktop as well as regular Web searching. As of Tuesday afternoon local time,Â WabiSabi Labi, a Swiss company that specializes in selling vulnerability information, was still auctioning the Ask.com toolbar problem for minimum of â¬500 ($705), although no bids were listed. WabiSabi Labi's auctioning of security vulnerabilities has caused a stir among security analysts who believe software companies should be discreetly notified of vulnerabilities and allowed to patch the software so as to not put users in danger. The company maintains security researchers should be rewarded for their work.
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Found in the search marketing forums: Major Site Exclusion Failure; Reciprocal Links Are (Still) Not Dead; Tips or Tools for Viewing Location-Specific Ads; and more.
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Also: Color Sudoku game adds twist to computing. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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Some unscrupulous vendors manage to worm their way into price comparison site listings. Knowing how these shopping engines work can help you avoid the bad apples.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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Gabe: We did a really awesome project (can I say it"s awesome, is that okay?) for Wired magazine. You can either go pick up the most recent issue and read it there or check it out on their site. They asked us to do a piece for them handicapping all three of the next generation systems. We tried to be as fair as we could and hopefully you"ll get a kick out of it.
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Plus: Google apps for your site, and HP's pretexting debacle.
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Best Buy sold digital picture frames during the holidays that harbored malicious code able to spread to any connected Windows PC. It is not recalling the frames, however.
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Also: Seeking readers via online 'book trailer'. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Online ecommerce? No sweat Microsoft and Best Buy have announced a partnership to meet the needs of small business customers who would like to establish a web presence but are reluctant to create sites on their own.â¦
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A new feature in Internet Explore 7 displays Web sites with security certification in a green-filled address bar.