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The Moral Authority of a Search Engine

Using critical thinking skills does not make one a terrorist or a black hat individual.

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InLinks.com - TLA Launches In Links, an Inline Link Buying Program

Text Link Ads launched InLinks, a new inline link program for blogs.

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Motrin, I Don’t Feel Your Pain

(This item is cross-posted from the Strutta blog)

In case you hadn’t already heard, this week Motrin (the pain medication) released a new commercial. Days later they had already pulled it and issued a public apology.

Before we go into too much detail, let’s start by watching the video in question, and then we’ll try to figure out what all the fuss is about:

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Hammering the SEO about Oranges and Sardines: Amy Sillman

With apologies to the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, for picking on your gorgeous new Web site, here is a constructive suggestion: do some SEO (search engine optimization). As The Wired Campus reports the Hammer Museum has raised the bar for museum offerings:
On Monday, though, the museum surpassed itself — ...

Source: Golden Swamp

With a mobile in a pocket, no child will be left behind

Lots of planks and platforms in current politics offer plans and policies, but none of them seem to have any new suggestions for education. But think of this -- something not only new, but revolutionary:

The recent USA Presidential election and the impending dominance of Democrats has stirred up talk about ...

Source: Golden Swamp

McNamee: Textual Representations for Corpus-Based Bilingual Retrieval, 9am Mon 11/24

Paul McNamee will defend his dissertation on Textual Representations for Corpus-Based Bilingual Retrieval at 9:00am Monday 24 November 2008 in ITE 325B. His mentor is Charles Nicholas and the dissertation committee includes Tim Finin, James Mayfield (JHU), Sergei Nirenburg and Doug Oard (UMCP). Here is the abstract.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2008

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

The Value of a Link on Google's Home Page

Ever wonder what a link on Google's homepage would bring in terms of traffic? Let's take this G1 link: The Compete blog gives some detail into the number of clicks that link had while it was extremely visible on Google.com....

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google Maps Loses Saved Locations -- Fix in Progress

Numerous (10) Google Maps users are complaining that they are reliant upon Google Maps but the "Saved Locations" is empty even though some have saved 50 locations or so. Addresses are hard to remember by the human mind, so why...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Publishers' Top Requests to Google AdSense Are...

A WebmasterWorld thread is gathering the top 5 publisher requests to be shared with Google's AdSenseAdvisor. Forum member participation is building up, with the following requests being made thus far: Ability to block more than 200 sites in the Competitive...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google AdWords Query Parsing Explained

Let's say you've geotargeted your Google AdWords ad for Florida. You'd be alarmed if you saw that the ad was being run in Oslo, Norway, wouldn't you? I suppose I would be. Is this a problem with Google? Well, in...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Mid-November Google Search Update

We have already written our Google November report but when I see a spike in conversation about Google Search changes, I try to keep you informed, even if it is not a new month. So as you know, we covered...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Text Link Ads New Product, InLinks, Causes New Link Debate Brawl

I often try to stay away from talking about all these heated link debates, but sometimes, the discussion around these debates are so important to our industry, that I find myself having no other choice to write about them. That...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google Webmaster Tools Bug In "Top Search Queries"

Many Google Webmaster Tools users are complaining about not being able to see their "Top Search Queries" report for a week's worth of time. If you go to Google Webmaster Tools, then go to Statistics, and then click on Top...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google Does Accept MRSS Formatted Video Sitemaps

Since we have concluded video is important for your overall search efforts, I figured I follow up about a recent thread I spotted at Google Groups about the question on if Google supports MRSS as a format for Video Sitemaps....

Source: Search Engine Roundtable
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