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Here’s an interesting piece covering how to leverage systemic flaws and weaknesses Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter to your advantage - and trick-treat your competitors to oblivion in the process.

Second Life having announced that it want to integrate the Google Search Appliance, this opens the huge Second Life community with its millions of members as another SEO market to target

The German Ministry of the Interior is calling for citizens to sue Google as the legal owners of video platform YouTube for violation of laws banning public distribution of neonazi material and constituting sedition. Seeing that YouTube has ignored over 100 pertinent cease and desist applications by various plaintiffs, the German government feels that this is the only appropriate step to enforce rule of law.

Ok, folks – here’s our all-beloved Dr Search with his black hat SEO lampoon.

One of the simplest, fastest and most devastating methods of Black SEO consists of hijacking a competitor’s domain and transferring it to some other registrar. Now, this kind of - criminal - service is being offered on the Web for $200 - or is it?

CEO Eric Schmidt has never been exactly famous for his social engineering skills. With a CEO like that, who needs corporate or public or private detractors? This new blogger takes an exceedingly (and very well worded) dim view of Mr Schmidt’s recent presentation at the Progress and Freedom Foundation’s annual conference in Aspen

A Russian black hat SEO reveals how to get 100K pages indexed in Google without spamming their links directly. Use at own risk.

One of Google’s most vociferous public critics was sussed out by Matt Cutts at Sphinn and has decided to return underground.

If you thought Danny Sullivan’s Sphinn to be the next big thing in search after the invention of the search box, think again. Becomes the spam onslaught has only just begun.

With its controversial anti-paid links stance Google has managed to achieve what only a couple of years ago most people would have thought almost impossible: Provoke an industry wide outrage, accompanied by tons of bad feelings, as demonstrated in a turbulent session at SES San Jose.

What’s required from a corporate SEO? Michael Martinez outlines it all - in what is probably the most instructive and all-encompassing job ad this industry has seen to date. A fascinating read even for those who are hunting for qualified talent - here, you’ll find it all spelled out and virtually served to you on a plate.

It’s obviously the interview season here at fantomaster.com. Now, it’s our old friend Mike Grehan who has posted his piece on ClickZ, explaining the return of the Nefarious Search Engine Spammer industry. And as always when Mike’s signed his name to an article, it’s a ripping good read.

Is SEO really an art? This blog post claims it is - and with some of the classy SEO haikus featured there, they may well be right.

Watch Dr Search explain about hares, hedgehogs, Google and SEOs

Notorious SearchKing and SEO legend Bob Massa, of whose link brokering agency - the first of its kind - Google was so scared they pulled it down in 2003 - an streak of events he turned into a brilliant streak of linkbait - has launched his own SEO blog.