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Google’s launch of what’s persistently being called MyGoogle across the board already, in spite of all their effort to make their own preconfigured name “Fusion” stick, proves once more that their current PR department is little but a disaster waiting to happen. The general reaction is somewhat less than enthused.

Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch points to fantomNews and our monster list of SEO / SEM blogs alongside with some others you should also check out.

Maybe some of the posters on this thread are right in that it’s time to stand up against Google’s less than favorable terms touching upon their AdSense program.

If you’re hard pressed for free quality content to fill your web sites, your Shadow Domains™ and your blogs with, copyright free and all, why not let the U. S. government help you out?

According to a recent study the majority of small to medium businesses in the UK, while maintaining their owb web sites, hardly know what to do with them by way of maximizing their market exposure and driving sales conversions – potentially a huge market for aggressive SEO / SEM agencies.

What with new RSS feeds cropping up all over the place, it’s getting ever harder to keep up. Here’s a comprehensive overview of all currently available Yahoo! feeds.

Big things going on at MSN search: RSS aggregation, bookmark maintenance and publishing, search result clustering, and more. Take a look to get an indication of what may be the future of search according to Microsoft.

This in-depth analysis of what’s basically flawed with both middle tier and at least one upper tier search engine’s business model is enough to give you the creeps if you happen to be invested in any of the prime contenders.

Experiencing the wrath of the Googlebot, WebPosition’s sites have effectively been chucked from the Google index, no more to be found. Seems that Google has reserved the exclusive right to scrape other people’s content without their permission but doesn’t appreciate it one bit when they retaliate in kind. So who’s wondering?

A friendly reminder on what should be the real driving force behind technology, even though it usually isn’t.

Thumbs up for search engine marketing which will hit a total turnover of $11.6 billion by 2010 according to this recent survey by Forrester Research.

The European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid) has set up shop … more or less. It will still take till end of the year for .eu domains to be free for registration.

If there’s one major company at high risk of repeating all the mistakes in the book, it seems to be Google. Or so a growing number of analysts seem to think – overlooking the company’s most fundamental tenet of all.

Google France’s Director General met with 130 French journalists trying to convince them of the Google Print program – no cigar.

“Content-based SEO” (CSEO), “search engine friendly optimization” (SEFO) – Danny Sullivan presents a valiantly balanced view of what is still one of the most controversial topics in the industry.