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So much to read and so little time. It's good Pandia is doing all the reading for you! Here are some of the essential search engine news articles from this week: For Yahoo's CEO, News Keeps Getting Worse Yang made no concessions to the growing chorus of angry investors and media pundits calling for his ouster at a Web industry conference in London this week. (Reuters Nov 14 2008) Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It's A Social Network! US Live.com is now a social network,

The latest issue of Website Magazine presents a top 50 list of websites that are popular among web designers and developers. Anyone working withing the fields of online information dissemination and Internet marketing need to know something about the arts of setting up and designing web sites, so these resources may also be of interest to the readers of Pandia. The list is partly based on web statistics gathered by Ranking.com. Here are the top 20: about.

Black Friday advertisement flyers from Wal-Mart have hit the web early after a leak and Wal-Mart is not only going after the sites that have posted the Black Friday specials, but also the search engines which are indexing or linking to them. Wal-mart's legal team is targeting sites that have posted the content, claiming a copyright on the content, but now the company is going a step further. Wal-Mart has issued a takedown notice to SearchAllDeals.com ,

If you use Google's Content Network or use pay-per-click advertising at any of the search engines then you may consider blocking your ad from appearing on some domains. Why? Because it could increase your click throughs and ROI. There are any number of reasons why you may want to consider domain blocking,

Many new webmasters wonder why they don't show up in search engine results right away. The reason is quite simple. No one trusts you yet. Before you can build up trust within your target audience, you must first build trust with the search engines. How do you do that? Start with on-page optimization Build links gradually, not all at one time Seek constant improvement Don't buy or sell PageRank Offer a positive user experience Don't just focus on SEO,

Google Flu Trends, based on Internet search activity, predicts new outbreaks of flu in the US. It is that time of the year here on the Northern Hemisphere. A steady stream of new mutated flu viruses reach Europe and Northern America from Asia, leading to sore throats, runny noses and feverish days and nights, and there seems to be nothing we can do about it. Normally you would look to the medical field for a solution (there is not one yet),