In today's issue of New Media Age magazine a small unobtrusive little snippet of news is included on page 5.

Googlers become spammers

SEMPO have released a survey aimed at European search marketers

Information from Elemental Comms

I wanted to follow up this thread about my petition to MySpace (which asked them to show us profiles of children that have gone missing in our areas, based on our Zips and/or IPs.) A few days ago Simrin Mangat, the Manager of Safety & Security of Fox Interactive Media Inc., sent me the following press release that said they are going to do precisely that...

Have you followed nofollow (and how it has changed)? Graywolf puts nofollow in historical context, noting how current rants about paid reviews are causing Google to put their users last:

It is turning into a bit of a saga over at Performancing:

Matt throws down the guantlet with V7N's new contextual link service. Starting with the usual passive aggressive statement...

Yahoo to change the way they rank ads - Cut and paste of notification below

Yahoo! had another ho-hum quarter, but the surprise comes from analysts actually getting the real problem. Henry Blodget reports:

The advertiser has drastically cut spending on Yahoo (in favor of Google) and argues that Yahoo's problem is not Panama, but rather poor conversions and click fraud. This problem, the advertiser says, is the direct result of Yahoo's refusal to allow advertisers to select which sites in the Yahoo Network their ads appear on.

Threadwatch has decided to get on the SEO contest bandwagon. Whoever ranks #1 in Google for Dave Pasternack at noon Eastern on March 1st, 2007 wins $1,000 from Threadwatch. In addition to the $1,000 prize for the top ranking site, Threadwatch will also give away $100 to the most interesting PPC ad running at that time, as voted for by our editors.

Looks like the employees Market Smart employees and clients are ready to even the score.

By now you've heard about the +-30 penalty, and you may have even heard of the Google 950 penalty being discussed here, and here, but let me tell you about the most common penalty Google uses.

Does this guy ever stop...

"Everybody’s not angry: only a small percentage of readers with an inferiority complex who happen to call themselves SEO experts."

From Techcrunch we see that Google forgot to renew their German domain name and someone grabbed it for a short period of time, before Google regained it.

A story from CNN and the Wall Street Journal says Google may be looking to aquire a gaming company for new ad placements inside of video games

Google in talks to buy video game ad firm Adscape

On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald.

I guess the easiest way to leverage content owned by others is to have a partnership to syndicate their content with ads:

Well it looks like all our congrats to Nick W were in order, but only in the sense of "congrats for resigning shortly before the complete collapse"! Performancing has announced a total, immediate shutdown on their blog:

Scott Richter has been named specifically in a suit filed on friday in Los Angeles by MySpace/Newscorp.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/22/technology/myspace.reut/?postversion=2007012215
http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ncl=1112944821

MySpace has long been a repository of SPAM, but now they are looking to stem the flood by targeting the most troublesome of the bunch, Phishers.

I bring to you my fellow Threadwatchers - "The Lazy SEO's Manifesto"

I pledge to get dressed only after the noon hour. Getting dressed implies putting on pajama pants or sweats instead of boxers only. It does not necessarily imply the presence of a shirt.

Google Maps get's lost in New Jersey, sends people into endless loop....