Our latest release included features requested by customers in the community, including the "bill me now" feature and the ability to remove a credit card from adCenter. I just wanted post a reminder on a couple ways you can provide feedback.

Google Labs is the proud father of a new graduate search tool. Called Google Suggest, the software provides users suggestions for search queries from the home page as they type queries in. The tool uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. Think of it as the "Did you mean?" feature, but in real time from your search bar. I tested it out first with a search for "Microsoft.

Technorati has always been a strange beast ??" neither fish nor fowl. Often mentioned in the same breath as Digg and Delicious it's used by many passively as an aggregator of blog postings . Here's how Technorati describes their mission : Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent,

How treating a web page like a research paper can help you in search listings You should always keep your audience in mind when you're writing landing page text. But what do you when you're optimizing pages for search engines and your audience isn't even human? According to search engine optimization expert Jessica Bowman of SEM Inhouse , it may help to think of search engines as your college professor . Jessica recently gave a workshop at Yahoo!

How much traffic do you really want, and can your budget afford it? Before iPods enabled teens to retreat into their music at any volume they like without disrupting the rest of the household, parents employed a three-word mantra that both parties quickly grew tired of: "Turn it down!" It's a generational power struggle that probably echoed the world over. As adults, our musical tastes may have changed,

For several months now, some selected Adsense publishers have been beta testing Google's hosted ad serving manager which as we said before is a good tool for letting Adsense in to your site's unsold ad spots . Today Google AdSsense has just opened up the Ad Manager to everyone who have existing AdSense account. Creating an Ad Manager account automatically links your AdSense account and later on you can optionally integrate the two account.

by Claudine Zap ' Creature from the deep . As Gawker put it, it's been "our monsteriest season yet." Our obsession with beasts real and imagined continues today.?A " giant squid " was found off the waters of Antarctica and recently dissected at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Curious?lookie loos quickly?sent searches for the 30-foot creature up 14,816%. ' The Talented Mr. Rockefeller . A mystery of a different nature cloaks Clark Rockefeller (+319%).

by Jennifer Laycock I scan hundreds of feeds and read dozens of articles each day so you don't have to. From changes to Google AdWords' Quality Score to hyperlocal search to back to school viral videos, find out the six articles I dubbed as must-read for the small business crowd today. Carrie Hill puts together a nice post called "SEM Success in 10 Minutes a Day" over at Search Engine Watch.

by Sage Lewis Sage unleashes his endorsement for Search Engine Guide's Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference that is coming to Columbus, OH this September 22-23. Day one if full of general sessions to get your feet wet in everything from site architecture to blogging for business and link building; day two dives you down deep into hands-on workshops such as viral marketing, copywriting and usability. Sage's favorite aspect about SBMU is how intimate the environment is.

by Mike Krumboltz Believe it or not, there's more than one democracy in the world. While much of the world's attention is focused on the slugfest between Barack Obama and John McCain , a recent election in Malaysia sparked a tremendous reaction in Search. Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim saw his searches soar into the top 2,000? terms after being elected to his nation's parliament. Such rarefied air is usually occupied by starlets named Britney , Paris , and Lindsay ,