Weekly Search Buzz (17 Aug 08)

This week was slow as compared to earlier weeks, Here are some of the topics hot this week on my blog:

Western Union Now A Payment Option For Google Adsense: Google Adsense has introduced Western Union as a payment option for Bulgaria, Egypt, Lithuania, Morocco and Taiwan.

Google, Yahoo disclosed terms of ad pact.

Google Launched Adsense For Feeds: So finally they launched adsense for feeds, But will this really going to help us ? As we all know that peoples who use feed readers are tech-savvy !!

T-Mobile To Be First Carrier For Android: Google has officially confirmed the phone is coming this year.

Google, Yahoo And Microsoft Got A Notice From Indian Supreme Court: The Supreme Court of India issued a notice to the Centre, Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation on a petition seeking a ban on popular online search engines promoting sex selection techniques.

Some resources written by me today:

Magic Of External Links.
Trick To Allow Specific IP To View A Web Page.

Some other topics hot on other Blogs this week:

Google Shuts Down FeedBurner’s Ad Network (FAN): This week, Barry spotted the thread where Google announced the end of Feedburner’s Advertising Network.

How a Search Engine Might Handle Singular and Plural Queries: When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

Bloggers Selling ‘Sex’ Like Prostitutes: Worth reading.

iPhone Search Result Optimization Tip #1: Phone Numbers in Meta Tags: Are iPhone type PDAs the way of the future. Will most searches be performed from such devices?

Does PDF metadata have any significant effect on ranking in Google search results? : PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets.

Teaching Advanced Link Building and Why Pagerank Will Never Die: One of the difficult things of trying to share ideas, or teach a concept to large group of people is the different levels everyone is at.

Word Visualization on Search Marketing Blogs: Lee Odden writes “Lists and ranking resources can be tough and controversial. A while back we ranked top blogs on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO and PPC) that publish their RSS subscriber counts via Google’s Feedburner.

Well thats all i loved this week, will share more next week :-)

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