Recently a "101 free SEO Tools that don't suck" list went popular on Sphinn . I love 101 items lists and I love free SEO tools especially if the tools "don't suck". While checking out the list I've encountered some tools I haven't been using much or been familiar with at all. On the other hand I was missing some tools I use daily.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget that people use other sites besides Google, Yahoo, and Bing to find local results. There are plenty of people using YellowPages.com, and why not? Google may have the most untouchable brand on the Internet right now, but the Yellow Pages brand has been around much longer. There are still plenty of people using the print version of the Yellow Pages, but AT&T's YellowPages.

Sony has announced that its eBook store now offers access to more than 1 million free public domain books from Google. The selections include biographies, historical texts, romance novels and hundreds of other genres. The titles have been digitized by Google as part of its Google Book project. The titles are available on Sony's eBook reader.

Financial services firm UBS apparently doesn't feel that the new Microsoft-Yahoo deal poses too much of a threat to the other big search contender. Today, UBS initiated its coverage of Google with a "buy" rating and some rather aggressive targets. Brian Pitz, an executive director and senior research analyst at UBS, believes Google's stock will be trading at about $525 in one year's time. Google, which is currently trading at $449.89,

by Vera H-C Chan Our picks from the day's hottest searches. US News College Ranking (up 5,424% in searches on Yahoo!). Princeton Review released its best 371 colleges , prompting users to check the more familiar one. The Taliban (+1,266%). The Sunni Islamist movement plans chaos for the Aug. 20 Afghan elections. Rats of NIMH (+723%). Much talk about a live-action adaptation of the 1971 children's classic, "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." Carbon Motors (+410%).

The Digg community voted on questions to be asked to Google's Marissa Mayer. The questions were: "Do you ever get disturbed at what you see as most searched topics?" "With products like Google Docs, Voice, Wave as well as Chrome OS, Google seems to strongly encourage the move to the cloud. However, a lot of users do not have fast internet access and have relatively low bandwith caps.

Posted by jennita Ok, so you've all read about The Best Spam Submission Ever which was illustrated ever so eloquently (and if you haven't read it, please read it now... uhm well ok after you read this - it's awesomely funny!). As the post mentions, we sift through many YOUmoz entries every day determining which ones to post to the site. Most spam is easily detected; such as the body of the post only consists of 1 or 2 sentences,

Google has released a couple of enhancements to Google Apps Directory Sync, which is a tool that helps businesses sync the user and directory info in their LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) systems with Google Apps. Google Apps Directory Sync now helps sync employee contact info as well as non-employee info listed in the central LDAP directory. This means customers, partners, vendors, etc. can easily be looked up.

Hey all, You know those amazingly witty comment replies you always post on Digg? Does it sometimes seem as if the original commenter didn't see them? Based on your feedback, we're releasing a small feature that will send an email to that original commenter - now you'll know for sure if they're ignoring you. We're hoping this new feature will foster even more communication and sharing within the Digg community. Now, once someone replies to your top-level comment,

With the big Yahoo Microsoft deal announced , there are still a lot of questions out there, despite the significant amount of information the companies have shared thus far. We know that Bing will become the search engine used in Yahoo searches. We also know that Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10-year license to Yahoo's core search technologies. So what does this mean for the search technologies that Yahoo has been working on, and has opened up to third party developers?