At the end of 2006, the Open Directory (DMOZ) suffered a major server crash which, combined with insufficient backup data, resulted in new submissions being suspended for at least 6 weeks. The site is now back functioning again but questions are being raised about the future of this directory.

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The Web Marketing Workshop has now completed the opening of its new office in Australia and will offer a similar range of search engine marketing services and other online marketing support to companies within this region, both through this business and its trading name, Web Search Workshop. This comes at a time when the Australian market is seeing a significant growth in online usage.

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At the recent World Economic Forum held in Davos, experts discussed the extent of Internet fraud and it’s estimated that between 100 and 150 million PCs are now part of botnets - PCs infected with trojan virus programs run to execute online fraud scams, release spam email campaigns and infiltrate user personal identity information. All PC users should be aware of the latest methods virus originators employ to gain “backdoor” access to PCs.

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