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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• Live Search Promoting Again, This Time With "Cashback Back-to-School Deals"
  Microsoft has announced a "back-to-school" promotion for using Live Search through the Live Search cashback portal. The promotion adds up to "double the cashback rewards on millions of products from hundreds of participating retailers." Example promotions include 36-percent off select shoes at Foot Locker, 18-percent off on Lenovo ThinkPad and...
• Is an Online vs. Offline Local Search All That Different? Yes and No
  Local search is a term that describes more than just Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) and local search engine searches. It also includes offline searches for local businesses. The type of local search consumers use depends on their degree of need. When comparing the top 10 IYP and print Yellow...
• Pay-Per-Click Averages Hide Incremental Realities
  You're hitting your pay-per-click (PPC) efficiency targets and everyone is pleased with the results. Congratulations, but are you wasting money in your PPC program? Averages often hide waste, and in this economy it may be worth taking a look at how you're getting to that average. Suppose you budget...
• Microsoft To Take Another Run At Yahoo In 2009?
  If absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett were still alive he might be tempted to write a drama about the Microsoft and Yahoo non-merger that seems to keep generating news and speculation. Better yet, maybe living playwright David Mamet will take a crack at some point. The latest justification for writing yet...
• Report: AOL Units Being Readied For Sale
  For months there's been anticipation that some or all of AOL would be sold. Talks between AOL and Yahoo have been ongoing, as they have with Microsoft to a lesser degree. But months ago AOL decided to separate its ISP business (8.7 million subscribers) from its advertising and consumer portal...
• Yahoo Shortcuts Causes Associated Press Article To Show Inappropriate Content
  With automated tagging, Web links can surprise from the Associate Press reports that the Yahoo Shortcuts feature aided in placing inappropriate content on AP's content. Yahoo Shortcuts is a feature that allows publishers enhance their content by adding Yahoo content around the words in the articles or blog posts. In...
• Yahoo Survives Annual Meeting, Re-Elects Board, Microsoft Cries Foul
  Perhaps we're coming to the point where we'll no longer be writing about Microsoft and Yahoo and their failed courtship. We'll see. Today Yahoo survived its long-anticipated shareholder meeting. It's detailed in this CNET blog post. At the conclusion of the meeting, Yahoo issued a statement that its slate of...

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• One Year Later: FeedBurner Gains Google Server Power, TechCrunch
• Google Sites to Replace Google Page Creator, Digital Inspiration
• Google, Microsoft vie for Universities, Washington Post
• Google Translation Center, a New Human Translations Service in the Making, Google Blogoscoped

Business Issues

• Alibaba: 'We Will Do Things Our Own Way', PC World
• Privacy watchdog hoists Google by its own petard, The Register
• Yahoo Is Still Searching for, Well, Yahoo, New York Times
• Earnings: Lycos Europe Freefalling En Route To Sell-Off, paidContent.org
• Facebook to let employees sell some stock options - at internal $4 billion valuation, VentureBeat
• Yahoo looks at metro for site of new data center, SW Iowa News

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Google Maps missing reviews returned to rightful owners, Mike Blumenthal
• Google Street View Australia is Live, Google Blogoscoped

Paid Search & Contextual

• adCenter Labs Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising - Events, adcentercommunity.com
• July 2008 Search Engine Share: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Rimm Kaufman
• AdSense Ad Review Center Goes Missing For Some Google Publishers, Search Engine Roundtable
• Awesome Ad Groups: Small is Good, Search Engine Watch
• Online Advertising - How Does It Actually Work? - adCenter Analytics Blog, adcentercommunity.com
• What Makes Google AdWords Tick? 2 Quality Score Formulas You Need to Know: Minimum Bids and Ad Position, PPC Hero

Searching

• The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, August, altsearchengines.com
• Health Search Part IV - Healia, altsearchengines.com

SEM Industry

• Scott McAndrew: Search Blogger of the Day, The SEO Scoop
• SEO Salaries, SEO Jobs & In-House Survey - More Data!, Reality SEO

SEO & SEM

• Tag Clouds & SEO - Tagging Engineers & Developers, Reality SEO
• An Insider's Look at the REAL Search Engine Marketing Play Book, BruceClay.com
• Get feedback on your items' performance, Google Base Blog
• Google Sitemaps "Too Many Redirects" Warning, Search Engine Roundtable
• Headsmacking Tip #4: Use Keyword Variations with Matching Intent Together, SEOmoz
• How I use URL Search to get thousands of visitors, BlogStorm
• Major Yahoo Search Ranking Changes in Early August, Search Engine Roundtable
• MSN on BrowseRank, WebProNews
• Seven Building Blocks of a Destination Website: , Search Engine Guide
• Site Clinic: No Good Web Design Idea is Original, So Use It!, Search Engine Guide
• The Entropy of Search Logs and Personalization with Backoff, SEO By The Sea
• Webmasters Report August 2008 Google SERP Changes, Search Engine Roundtable
• Yahoo Paid Search Submit Experiencing Problems After Update, Search Engine Journal

Social Media

• Categories, Bookmarks & Tags: Background & Basics, AIM Clear Blog
• Targeted-Ad Initiative Is Crucial for MySpace, Wall Street Journal

Video, Music & Image Search

• Youtube to Offer Some Content From China's Olympic Games, Wall Street Journal

Web Analytics

• Feedburner hack: how to get 2500 subscribers overnight (video), thenextweb.org
• The Huge Collection of Google Analytics Tips, Search Engine Journal

Other Items

• End of the Blog, The Patry Copyright Blog
• Real Estate: Larry Page's $7 million manse, Valleywag
• Did Google Kill Journalism?, Huffington Post
• Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 3, 2008, Search Engine Roundtable
• And now we dance, Yodel Anecdotal
• Why is Sanjay Jha so popular on Google?, Los Angeles Times

Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:

• How to use URL Search to get thousands of visitors
• A Recap of my 1st Wonderful Year using StumbleUpon
• Google Lowers The Bar On Customer Service Yet Again
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• The Huge Collection of Google Analytics Tips
• Reddit & Digg Launch Mobile Versions
• Interview With SEO Legend Aaron Wall
• Collective Wanderings: New Blogger Announced
• Are Your Stumbled Pages Sticky?
• W3C HTML Validation and Search Engine Optimization
• SEOmoz's The Best Of Q&A
• Pligg Auto Submitter/Spammer and how to protect your site
• An Engaging Collection Of Links - This Month In SEO - 7/08
• Delicious.com Finally Relaunches!
• SearchCamp Launches with PodCamp Philly in Philadelphia

The Yahoo Search Blog announced the August 2008 weather report today. Sharad Verma of Yahoo Search said, "'ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but expect the update will be completed soon."

This update is much more substantial when compared to the June update. I reported that webmasters were noticing major changes at Yahoo throughout the weekend. I noted at the Search Engine Roundtable that these changes seem to have triggered a lot of discussion over at many of the search marketing forums.

Microsoft has announced a "back-to-school" promotion for using Live Search through the Live Search cashback portal. The promotion adds up to "double the cashback rewards on millions of products from hundreds of participating retailers."

Example promotions include 36-percent off select shoes at Foot Locker, 18-percent off on Lenovo ThinkPad and 30 percent off on The North Face Doubletrack backpacks.

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Local search is a term that describes more than just Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) and local search engine searches. It also includes offline searches for local businesses. The type of local search consumers use depends on their degree of need. When comparing the top 10 IYP and print Yellow Pages headings as we did in today’s press release from the Yellow Pages Association, there aren’t many differences. The most frequent IYP usage mirrors consumer’s most frequent print Yellow Pages (PYP) usage.

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You're hitting your pay-per-click (PPC) efficiency targets and everyone is pleased with the results. Congratulations, but are you wasting money in your PPC program? Averages often hide waste, and in this economy it may be worth taking a look at how you're getting to that average.

Suppose you budget $200 to buy a DVD Player. When you arrive at the store you find the model you want is actually on sale for $100! You arrive home, your 5 year-old hears the good news, grabs the left over $100 and feeds it into the paper shredder. You are: a) indifferent because you planned to spend $200 anyway; or b) irate because your son just wasted $100?

Is this happening in your PPC program?

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If absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett were still alive he might be tempted to write a drama about the Microsoft and Yahoo non-merger that seems to keep generating news and speculation. Better yet, maybe living playwright David Mamet will take a crack at some point.

The latest justification for writing yet another post about whether or not Microsoft will take another run at Yahoo is an eWeek piece in which Eric Jackson, who runs Ironfire Capital, a Yahoo investor, argues that Microsoft still needs Yahoo and predicts another acquisition attempt.

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For months there's been anticipation that some or all of AOL would be sold. Talks between AOL and Yahoo have been ongoing, as they have with Microsoft to a lesser degree. But months ago AOL decided to separate its ISP business (8.7 million subscribers) from its advertising and consumer portal businesses. According to the Wall Street Journal today, the accounting exercise of dividing assets and liabilities between the two sides of the business has now largely been concluded.

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With automated tagging, Web links can surprise from the Associate Press reports that the Yahoo Shortcuts feature aided in placing inappropriate content on AP's content.

Yahoo Shortcuts is a feature that allows publishers enhance their content by adding Yahoo content around the words in the articles or blog posts. In this case, there was an AP story on the Eliot Spitzer scandal. Yahoo automatically took the phrase "underage girls," which was used in the article, and highlighted it. If a user hovered their mouse over the words, up came images from Flickr - some containing underage girls drinking.

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Perhaps we're coming to the point where we'll no longer be writing about Microsoft and Yahoo and their failed courtship. We'll see. Today Yahoo survived its long-anticipated shareholder meeting. It's detailed in this CNET blog post. At the conclusion of the meeting, Yahoo issued a statement that its slate of directors was elected, following the settlement of the Carl Icahn proxy challenge.

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• Yahoo Maps Now With Better Search Integration & New Features
  Yahoo announced that they have added some features to Yahoo Maps. The main improvements include better local search integration, usability enhancements, and printable view changes. Here is the full list of features:...
• Search In Pictures: Yahoo Basketball, Google Cube & Yahoo's Variety Show
  In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more....
• The Mother Of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps
  Did you miss our SMX Local & Mobile show in San Francisco last week? If so, no worries, as David Mihm has an excellent roundup of the highlights of the conference. Even though I'm obviously biased, I have to say the event was one of the best I've had the...
• SEM News, The Ultimate Guide To Search Marketing Optimization Part 3 & The Top Marketing Words Of All Time
  In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today's in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization Part 3 - Self-Service...
• Google AdWords Dropping Average Position From Content Network?
  PPC Hero noticed that Google has applied "N/A" (not available) to all the columns within the content network that are for the "average position" of your ad. Here is a screen capture:...
• Google Brings Public Transit Directions To Symbian, Windows Mobile Phones
  Google has added access to public transit directions for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile phones through its Google Maps for Mobile client application. Recently the company made them available for BlackBerry and Java-based mobile phones. (Here's a video that shows how it works on mobile handsets.) Google Transit has public...
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey Becomes More Mainstream
  Earlier this year, when I wrote about Yahoo! SearchMonkey, which enables developers to build search result enhancements based on semantic web data, I was skeptical that it would fulfill Yahoo!'s stated aims of encouraging wider use of semantic web standards. While I agreed with Yahoo! that site owners need a...

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Feedly Now Integrates With Google Search, Read/Write Web
• Gmail update coming? Integration of voicemail, Flickr
• Google Reader Adds the Blogs You Follow in Blogger, Google Operating System

Business Issues

• Microsoft discloses Google, Apple threat, plus Danger sale pric, Brier Dudley's blog
• Response to Wall Street Journal article of July 22, The Icahn Report
• As Its Holders Meet, Yahoo Taps New Ads, Wall Street Journal
• Yahoo! Po Ruski, Quintura blog

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Don't Like Microsoft Virtual Earth Imagery? Then, "Patch" It., Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
• Tip of the week: Getting where you need to go, Google LatLong
• Has Mobile Local Search Finally Arrived?, Search Engine Watch
• Google LatLong: Olympic imagery update, Google LatLong

Paid Search & Contextual

• Bookmark the adCenter Help topics you use most - adCenter Blog for Advertisers, www.adcentercommunity.com
• Dissecting the Google AdWords Quality Score: See How it Actually Affects Your Account, PPC Hero
• Upcoming Reports Changes: August 19, AdWords API Blog
• PPC Bid Optimization Platforms: The Perils Of Inflexibility and Extremism, Rimm Kaufman
• A picture isn't always worth a thousand words, Inside AdSense
• Did Yahoo Fix the Publisher Reports?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google AdSense Ads in RSS Feeds - First Impressions , Digital Inspiration
• How To Grow Your PPC Campaign Organically, PPC Hero

Searching

• Cuil Stats - The Early Numbers, Hitwise
• How Using Categories for Queries Can Help Searchers, Writers, and Search Engines, SEO By The Sea
• Google Alerts experimenting with tags?, Andrew R H Girdwood
• Google in your language, Official Google Blog
• Official Google Blog: Search quality, continued, Official Google Blog

SEM Industry

• Honk If You Love Search Engine Marketing Women, Cre8PC
• AdWordsAdvisor Is Taking A Two Month Leave From Google, Search Engine Roundtable
• SEMPO Guide To Rome: Massimo Burgio, Smart Keywords

SEO & SEM

• Don't use Robots.txt to control indexing, JLH Design Blog
• Look Out PageRank, There's a New Algorithm in Town, Search Engine Watch
• Whiteboard Friday - Why Linkbuilding and Landing Pages Don't Mix, SEOmoz
• XML Sitemaps, guidelines on their use, SEOmoz

Social Media

• Big Change in Protected-User Model, Twitter Blog
• Digg Recommendation Engine Updates, Digg the Blog
• How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in One Hour and 44 Minutes, ProBlogger
• ProBlogger is Banned from StumbleUpon, ProBlogger
• Social Media Marketing? Not in Columbus (or Social Media Isn't a Free Pass to a Good Campaign), Search Engine Guide

Video, Music & Image Search

• Google to compete with Baidu in MP3, Xinhua
• The YouTube Screening Room: New Features, New Films, YouTube Blog

Web Analytics

• Clicky Web Analytics Improves API and Adds More Features, Jason Bartholme
• Google Analytics Has Several Bugs You Should Know About, Search Engine Roundtable
• Holy Bazooka, Google Changed the Favicon for Google Analytics!, Arthur Freydin

Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site:

• Introducing the New Google Products Performance Dashboard
• Honk If You Love Search Engine Marketing Women
• ProBlogger is Banned from StumbleUpon
• Where in the World is the SEO Talent? Part 2
• The Key to Effective Viral Marketing is Emotional Engagement
• How To Get New Web Sites To Rank Quickly

Yahoo announced that they have added some features to Yahoo Maps. The main improvements include better local search integration, usability enhancements, and printable view changes.

Here is the full list of features:

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In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

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Did you miss our SMX Local & Mobile show in San Francisco last week? If so, no worries, as David Mihm has an excellent roundup of the highlights of the conference. Even though I'm obviously biased, I have to say the event was one of the best I've had the privelege and honor to be associated with. The speakers were first-rate, and there was a palpable buzz during breaks and networking events. Want some of the great tactical tips and info shared at the conference? See David's excellent The Mother of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps.

In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today's in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization Part 3 - Self-Service SEM Optimization Class, The Top Marketing Words of All Time, and this week's free tips and tools.

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PPC Hero noticed that Google has applied "N/A" (not available) to all the columns within the content network that are for the "average position" of your ad. Here is a screen capture:

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Google has added access to public transit directions for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile phones through its Google Maps for Mobile client application. Recently the company made them available for BlackBerry and Java-based mobile phones. (Here's a video that shows how it works on mobile handsets.)

Google Transit has public transit information and directions for approximately 50 cities on a global basis.

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Earlier this year, when I wrote about Yahoo! SearchMonkey, which enables developers to build search result enhancements based on semantic web data, I was skeptical that it would fulfill Yahoo!'s stated aims of encouraging wider use of semantic web standards. While I agreed with Yahoo! that site owners need a reason to adopt these standards, I didn't know that SearchMonkey would be that reason. The enhanced listings weren't turned on for searchers by default and searchers are notorious for never customizing their search experience. If searchers never see the listings, where's the motivation?

Tonight, site owners may have found some of that motivation. Yahoo! has turned several SearchMonkey enhanced listings on by default. This shows their willingness to experiment with the search experience. It also encourages SearchMonkey developers by showing that Yahoo! supports and is continuing to evolve the program. And it also indicates that Yahoo! may continue making more enhancements the default, which should motivate site owners to look a bit closer at the semantic web.

Below, more details about what searchers are now seeing by default in Yahoo! results.

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With Improvements
  Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen...
• Google Tests Related Search Phrases Inline With Search Results
  Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for "related" search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result's URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron's blog:...
• Britain Clears The Way For Google Street Views; Google Argues No "Complete Privacy" In US StreetView Court Case
  Watchdog clears Google's street cameras from The Guardian reports Britain's Information Commissioner's Office has officially given their approval over the privacy risks with the Street Views option in Google Maps. Meanwhile in the US, Google is arguing in a court case against StreetView that there is no "complete privacy."...
• Do The Google Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
  Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video, it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:...
• Report: Google To Develop A Venture-Capital Unit
  Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm from the Wall Street Journal reports Google is in the early stages of putting together a corporate venture-capital unit, within Google. Google's senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, is reported to be leading up the new unit....
• How To Get New Web Sites To Rank Quickly
  What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age. Sites that were around a few years ago had fewer competitors, so it was easier for them to rank. As they aged...
• Is Google Universal Search A Walled Garden?
  Although Google Universal Search (GUS) is still very much in flux, it's been a part of the SEO landscape for a while now. In that time, there have been some good studies about how often GUS presents video results, and some research into how it ranks videos versus text...
• Report: Newspapers, Yellow Pages Battle For Local Online Advertising Revenues
  A new report from analyst firm Borrell Associates contains fairly dire revenue projections for both local newspapers and print yellow pages ($5 billion in projected print revenue losses in five years). The newspaper angle is picked up today by the Wall Street Journal and PaidContent, which both lay out some...
• A Small Business Marketing Success Story: K9cuisine.com
  Being small is hard enough. But being small and in retail? That's like having two strikes against you before the game even begins. From setting up relationships with banks, to finding trustworthy suppliers, to building a loyal customer base, being a small retailer is a challenge many businesses can't...

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• More layout control and better integration with Google Docs and Webmaster Tools, Google Sites Blog

Business Issues

• Google's Tookey takes European role at Ask, NMA
• Icahn Won't Attend Yahoo Annual Shareholder Meeting, CNN Money
• Joining Hunch, Caterina.net
• Google VP Marissa Mayer Appears on Fox Business Network, Search Engine Watch Blog

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Brand New Beijing Olympics Satellite Imagery in Google Earth, Google Earth Blog
• Eye on Earth Water Watch (and Virtual Earth), Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
• Google LBC Communications Options Explained, Mike Blumenthal
• Google Maps and the wrong URL, Mike Blumenthal
• Google Maps Reincludes "Fix Incorrect Marker Location" Feature, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist", The Smoking Gun
• Microsoft Virtual Earth Deprecation Reminder, Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
• Avoiding tolls, Google LatLong
• Google Street View car pulled over by police for driving in bus lane, Telegraph

Link Building

• Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going, Search Engine Watch

Paid Search & Contextual

• (Ad)Word of the Day: Keyword Insertion, Inside AdWords
• Getting started with adCenter: creating ad groups - adCenter Blog for Advertisers, adcentercommunity.com
• adCenter France - PPC Search Market Research - adCenter Blog for Advertisers, adcentercommunity.com
• Yahoo Publisher Network Payout Decrease an Error, Search Engine Roundtable

Searching

• Most drive-by malware comes from China, Google says, News.com
• Yahoo! BOSS is easy - meet Yuil, java rants
• Where is _____? The Internet Lost and Found, Hitwise

SEM Industry

• SEO Training: What's Your Favorite Flavor?, BruceClay.com
• Is the SEM Intern Today's Apprentice?, EngineWorks
• SearchCamp Launches with PodCamp Philly in Philadelphia!, Search Marketing Gurus

SEO & SEM

• Content and Marketing Lessons Learned from The Dark Knight, SEOmoz
• Getting Paid to Edit the Search Results, SEO Book
• Google Webmaster Tools Incorrectly Reporting Some 404 Errors, Search Engine Roundtable
• How Do You Tell Your Client about the SEO Work You're Doing?, Search Engine Roundtable
• It's an SEO and PPC Party, but are They Missing an Important Friend?, Serengeti Communications
• SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings, Search Engine Journal
• The Future of SEM Education, Search Engine Watch
• What are the Most Important Search Engine Optimization Practices?, Search Engine Roundtable
• I Have A Question: The Best Of Q&A, SEOmoz
• Introducing the New Froogle Performance Dashboard, The Matchbox
• Submit Your Google Sites Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
• The Importance of Context in Content, SiteLogic

Social Media

• Facebook Launches News Feed Filters - First Look, Inside Facebook
• Socialmedian Brings A New Take On News Filtering, TechCrunch
• Twitter Versus Plurk: The UI Advantage, Read/Write Web

Video, Music & Image Search

• A More Customized Local Experience on YouTube, YouTube Blog
• YouTube Has Speech-to-Text Functionality.....and it Works, Beet.TV

Web Analytics

• adCenter Analytics Deep Dive - The Dashboard - adCenter Analytics Blog, adcentercommunity.com
• What Is Considered a "View" in YouTube?, Search Engine Roundtable

Other Items

• Google Energy Guru Pushes Congress to Insulate America, New York Times
• Getting to grips with Google Earth, CNN.com

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• Advanced Backlink Research Queries: Rand's "Give it Up" Presentation

Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen captures:

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Aaron Wall noticed Google is testing a new location for "related" search results. This time, the location appears to be directly under each individual search result's URL. Here is a screen shot of it in action, from Aaron's blog:

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