by Mike Krumboltz Michael Jackson's memorial was anything but subtle. Anyone who watched the touching yet bizarre event is bound to have a lot of questions. Among the most popular queries currently in Search: Was MJ's golden casket really, well, made of gold? The answer: Sort of. A company named Batesville constructed the casket. According to its official site , the casket is "solid 48 oz. bronze with 14k gold hardware.

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I'm a firm believer in testing. I'm also a firm believer that on-page SEO is extremely important. One doesn't need a test to know that. However, some SEOs continue to question age-old wisdom. Not to be disparaging, but there are problems with the methodology of The Google Cache's testing. Let's start here: Generate 7 pages of nonsensical text with identical numbers of words (to exclude Keyword Density/Frequency as a variable). I understand the reasoning here.

The Obama campaign turned Democratic National Committee grassroots project, Organizing for America, is all about the data. They're advertising to fill a slew of jobs, some of which involve slicing and dicing voter file data. The Senior Data Analyst, for example "Will work with the DNC Data Team to regularly update VoteBuilder, the DNC's national voter file.

The idea that YouTube makes no money for Google is widely held by many. Even yours truly falls for it entirely too often considering I know better. Last year, at a local interactive meetup, Google employees informed attendees of how advertisers get those specialized YouTube channels. They have to fork over $200,000 in advertising on the Google content network. Ok, so that doesn't monetize YouTube directly,

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Celebrity mug shots (Searches increased by 4,118%). Searching for prison pics never gets old. Jennifer Hudson pregnant (+2,038%). The singer performed at the Michael Jackson memorial, displaying her strong voice and baby bump . Charlie Chaplin (+797%). Brooke Shields said the song "Smile," written by Chaplin for the movie "Modern Times," was Michael Jackson's favorite . " Aliens in the Attic" (+557%).

There's been a flurry of updates in the travel search world and they all have to do with finding great deals. Whether you're a travel provider, advertiser, or just plain need great airfare tix to SES San Jose in August, here's what you need to know: Mobissimo has added student and youth travel fares to their site. Students can now compare those special fares to normal fares. Hey, you never know when a low-priced carrier might even beat out a student fare on a "bigger" airline.

Since last weekend some government websites in the US and South Korea have been cyberattacked, the New York Times reported. While the NYT has not concluded who is responsible beyond they "appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government", "the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the spy agency had implicated North Korea or pro-North Korea groups," NYT noted. "The Treasury Department, Secret Service,

Last week, we announced a suite of SMS services in Uganda , a country where someone's first experience of the Internet is far more likely to be on a mobile device rather than a PC. We are really excited about this project in part because it is the result of more than a year of true user-centered research and design. We knew we wanted to build useful mobile services tailored to the needs of people in sub-Saharan Africa,

I don't know what's up with Google lately, but there have been a couple of big launches that aren't quite ready for prime time. Google Squared was released , pretty much as an answer to Wolfram Alpha , but it needs a ton of work. Now, they've launched real estate search in Google Maps , but it's mostly a big dud. Realtor.com, Zillow.com, and Trulia.com are still way better and I absolutely wouldn't recommend ditching them to make Google your primary real estate search.