As part of its efforts to revamp the international operations , internal sources from MySpace Brazil already confirmed that the office will remain open only until June 30th. MySpace opened its local office 2 years ago. Still remains a mistery what will happen with the current campaigns and partnerships ( last week mySpace announced a big deal with a leading content portal in Brazil). No official communication from MySpace Brazil yet.

If you're like most searchers, you find yourself refining your searches until you find what you're looking for. But if Bruce Johnson from Semanti has his way, you'll start getting the results you want from your first search. Johnson is the CEO of Semanti, a San Francisco-based semantic search company. Today, Semanti is officially launching their brand new Firefox add-on. The add-on uses an 8 million term ontology to aid searchers with their keywords and phrases.

Yahoo! has released a couple of updates to extend enhanced search results. A new SearchMonkey update that enables even more enhanced results. You may remember back in March that a similar update enabled embedded rich media and documents in Yahoo! search results. Not every search would show them, but for web developers, adding a code snippet could be worth the added attraction in results. Now, the enhancement is being expanded. Product pages, local information, events, news,

It's one of social media's favorite topics: How will Twitter make money? This week brings news of two possibilities that many have speculated: Shopping and Corporate Verified Accounts . Twitter is already like the mall, or at least an airport concourse with companies such as Starbucks, Dell, Dunkin' Donuts, Jet Blue and Southwest Airlines tweeting away. It's rumored that Dell has made millions sending out Tweets about deals and sales.

Sometimes, Google manages to make me smile. Today, its people have taken a mundane tip tutorial on managing Gmail more efficiently and converted it into a humorous lesson in saving time. The Gmail staff created this Gmail tips Web page to help people use what's already in Gmail to save themselves time and energy hacking through the Amazonian jungle that can be our in-boxes. Gmail Product Marketing Manager Zach Yeskel wrote in a post : We know time is valuable,

Most of us consider optimization of links to be mostly about inbound links. While inbound links are important, they aren't the only links that are important. You also need to optimize your internal links to prevent broken links, good traffic flow, and PR flow. PR = PageRank, for the uninitiated. Now, I'm not necessarily talking about your navigational menu, although that's a good place to start. You want your links to be good, solid hypertext links, not dynamic links.

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Crooked house (Searches increased by 4,666.%). The reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" gave the playhouse maker major product play. The kids received four, along with the news that their parents are divorcing . Jane Kaczmarek (+4,051%). Speaking of divorces, the TV star of "Malcolm in the Middle" is splitting from "West Wing" actor Bradley Whitford. Alice in Wonderland (+1,407%).

by Mike Krumboltz Since taking office in January, President Obama has been a very busy guy. When he's not dealing with the economy, issuing carefully worded statements on foreign elections, and helping to raise his two kids, he's running a slew of government websites. OK, so the President probably isn't coding the sites, updating the HTML, and monitoring server load. But still, under his watch, the government has launched change.gov , recovery.gov , serve.gov , and now, cars.

by Claudine Zap What with all the brou-ha-ha over the reality trainwreck " Jon and Kate Plus 8 " stars announcing plans to divorce, you could easily overlook the birth of just two. Just. "Sex and the City" actress Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick welcomed twin girls , immediately sending Web searches on "sarah jessica parker" soaring. If you're thinking that you hadn't noticed a baby bump on skinny SJP: You're right. The couple,

The big news yesterday? Blogging is finally being taken seriously. The Federal Trade Commission announced that they will begin going after bloggers - as well as the companies that compensate them - for any false claims or failure to disclose compensation, free gifts, and other conflicts of interest. This isn't really a surprise. Content marketing is the most powerful online advertising strategy there is, and the FTC regulates advertising. Arguably,