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It's been another week of mega Google updates. Several have been noteworthy-enough to get their own post. The leftovers are included below: Google Android has launched 1.5 NDK, Release 1 . Meanwhile, Google Android phones are being announced and rumored for multiple carriers . Google Maps now offers a "What's Here?" feature if you right-click on a map. However, it only provides light tourism information in the left sidebar.

Chromatik is an experimental search engine by Exalead that offers a fun way to search for images by color. Search images by any imaginable combination of colors; Add keywords; Adjust image luminosity and saturation.

In my last article, 8 Key Points to Multiple niche Sites And Controlling Back Links , I cautioned that you need to be careful that a niche focus site might overtake the main site in the SERPs for a particular phrase. One question that came up in the comments of that article was how to prevent this.

It's way too early to say Bing is a success, but initial trials are favorable. Where Bing could shine is in local search, a relatively untapped revenue source and a fragmented marketplace. ...

This morning, Amazon Associates in North Carolina are awakening to some bitter news. As of today, their accounts are officially closed. This is anticipation - yes, anticipation, not the actual passage - of a state budget that includes a provision requiring companies with affiliate programs to pay an internet sales tax. Just a week ago, Amazon sent a warning to NC affiliates that the accounts would be closed if the bill was passed.

When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Worldwide tells you to settle down its recommended you cater to his wishes. Hot on the heels of a passionate speech from Bog Geldof, Sir Martin had no problem getting several hundred people to focus on the highly anticipated Cannes Debate just now. When you have the chief marketing officers of Kraft, P&G, J&J and McDonalds in the room, its a good plan to sit up and listen to their insight, after all,

The most obvious trend when it comes to SEO is "going local". Ever since Google introduced Google Maps and Local Business Center and later added local search results to Universal Search displaying them on top of everything else businesses everywhere strive to be there. Additionally the proliferation of smartphones and netbooks accelerates this development even more.

Google are now including a 4th match type in their search query reports: "Broad Match (Session Based)". I think it is great to have some reporting about the search history issue so I quickly got to work to see how this match type performed. A Broad Toad by Pixieslayer on Flickr I ran a search query report for one of our accounts and then I compared "Broad Match" with "Broad Match (Session Based).

Following the tragic death of Michael Jackson last night, UK Internet visits to his homepage increased 17 fold. Yesterday www.michaeljackson.com was the 9th most visited Music website in the UK, and the highest ranked artist homepage. TMZ , the website that originally broke the story, picked up 1 in every 1,100 UK Internet visits yesterday, making it the 73rd most visited website overall. Given that the site usually ranks somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 in the UK,