by Vera H-C Chan A gripping remake, a sweet re-imagining, and a queasy look at America's food chain make for a healthy draw in the Buzz Multiplex this week...but are any an antidote to " The Hangover "? Not likely. While a Travolta-Washington pairing is impressive, the bachelor-party-gone-bad should continue to dominate the box office given the whopping Web interest. Among the premieres, here's how they stack against one another this week. 1. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R).

It's been a tumultuous month. For us â?" and unfortunately for you. We're sorry for the frustration and the less than great service. While not an excuse, here is the reason: We changed co-location facilities. We, well the four members of our ops team, moved 1,000 servers and ALL of our real-time search infrastructure. Things are now returning to normal, although slower than we would have liked.

Bing is out of the gates and running. The new search platform from Microsoft was reported to have seen approximately 11.1% search share for its first week out. This compares to the previous week at 9.1%, (according to comScore ). Not bad for a brand new engine. This slight increase is likely due to all the hype and people flocking to get a glimpse of the new engine, but only time will tell if Microsoft will be able to hook these visitors in for repeat searches.

So you know you need anchor text and you know how to create links with anchor text. But how do you know which keywords to use for your anchor text as part of your on site optimization strategy? There's really no hard and fast rule. But I can give you some things to think about. No. 1, if you think about your anchor text as a call to action, it's a little easier.

To hear Aaron Wall tell it , small businesses don't have a fighting chance on the Web. Funny he should say it like that. Here's one of the most famous search engine optimization experts online - heck, he practically wrote the book on SEO (or something like that) - and he's calling himself an "humble web business." He's talking like he thinks he's one of the small fish. Isn't he the one that has the big companies paying him to do their SEO? I don't know.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation yesterday writes : When the Whitehouse.gov website launched in January, including embedded videos from YouTube, privacy advocates raised concerns that without extra privacy measures, YouTube would be improperly tracking visitors to the government website, including recording which videos were watched and combining that information with the ever-growing amount of information that Google and YouTube have about internet users,

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Yesterday, Facebook suggested two people to me through its "Suggestions" feature which usually includes friends of friends, co-workers and people I used to go to school with. The odd thing about these two suggestions was that although I knew both of them - I had made contact with them years ago because they are my third or fourth cousins - we had no friends in common, we had never worked at the same place, we even lived in different parts of the world.

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This week at SES Toronto , Tara Hunt shared some insights from her new book, The Whuffie Factor . In Hunt's definition, "whuffie" is social capital, composed of reputation, trust, connections, influence, and other factors. It becomes a kind of currency. As it turns out, her message was echoed elsewhere at Search Engine Strategies Toronto, and throughout the search industry today. Basically, you need to treat people with respect, deliver what they need in a way they enjoy,