At the end of April, the del.icio.us team announced a new beta add-on for Firefox 3 and after gathering some great feedback from those who had downloaded the extension, they're announcing its general availability. There are a number of performance and stability enhancements with this release of del.icio.us bookmarks for Firefox 3, so check out the del.icio.us blog for a list of some of the generally available features. Yahoo!

At a time when technology keeps shortening?words to four letters or fewer, are dictionaries still meaningful? You betcha. Even when school's out (for most),?searches for dictionaries are up 14% compared to this same period last year. Throw in foreign language look-ups, and the need to know goes up 18%. Besides vocabulary, searches for medical dictionaries rose 63% compared to last year. And we thought " cyberchondria " was so last year . (No,

Philologists , rejoice. Wordsmiths worked themselves up in a lexical lather after Merriam-Webster recently? added more than 100 new words. Now their wordly obsessions can reach a new level with Scrabble's new online game . Or will they? Hold your Qs and Js... isn't there already a fabulous, albeit contentious, version made popular by Facebook? After all, Scrabulous probably spurred the leap in " scrabble dictionary " searches,

If you're not too busy celebrating los sanfermines (you know, running with the bulls, etc.), you might enjoy this linky goodness! Disgruntled Googlers talk to the New York Times about Day care at Google and it's not all the rosy report that usually comes out of Mountain View. Somebody still has an eye on Ask: Ask.com's New Strategy in Search: Focus on Answers (also, Ask completed the Lexico acquisition including Dictionary.com .

Capitulate. Bow. Buckle, fold, submit, succumb, surrender, yield. However you want to put it, Google blinked first in the battle over a link to the privacy policyand has also found the magic number of words on a page ! Google had been taken to task recently by several organizationsfrom membership organizations it was trying to join to privacy advocate groupsfor not linking to their privacy policy from their homepage. Google founders refused on principle,

Posted by randfish I'm currently working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization , section by section. You can read more about this project here . Links - a Proxy for Popularity and Importance For search engines that crawl the web, links are the connectors between pages. Using link analysis, the engines can discover how pages are related to other pages and in what ways.

Back in the late 90s the only thing we worried about in the White House was a certain dry cleaning bill and a gentleman's proper cigar etiquette . Yes, times were different. Back then Microsoft was perceived by some as the next great monopoly, with Bill Gates as Cornelius Vanderbilt ready to dominate the desktops of every man, woman, child, and wildebeest.

Suddenly, I feel like I work for Soap Digest. But with the latest don't-miss developments in The Young and the Profitless , we had to get a jump start on Season Two! Last time, on The Young and the Profitless : Despite Stacey's (YHOO) recent marriage to Grant (GOOG; last season), Brad (MSFT) has decided he's going to win her back, with or without her consent . Meanwhile,

When is a car not just a car? Two specific examples come to mind. First, when it's (partially) powered by solar panels. And second, when the voice of KITT from Knight Rider spews directions. The Toyota Prius , already the poster-car for eco-friendly driving, may be planning a model with solar panels. According to The Daily Green , the panels "will produce enough electricity to keep the air conditioner running, eliminating a summertime drain on the gas tank.

As many of your know I am a big fan of both Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer. But these excellent tools, along with Google Webmaster Tools are treated by most people as individual single-purpose applications. There are tremendous synergies possible when you combine them in innovative ways. For the first time, the product teams for each one are stepping out of their respective silos and putting on a joint webinar about how to get the most out of combining them.