I saw the darnedest thing yesterday while browsing a few sites for research. I came across a website that wasn't designed too terribly badly, but it had a forum that was embedded into a page using an iframe. My initial reaction was, Why? And I'm still asking that question nearly 24 hours later. If you must understand anything about iframes, the one thing you should know is that they can't be crawled. If you have content in an iframe, search engines won't see them.

And then they were two. Microsoft is to deliver search results to Yahoo!, which means that there are only two search giants left: Google and Microsoft's Bing. But there are also other interesting headlines from the world of search engines. Yahoo Labs chief sees real-time search opportunity Yahoo Inc is considering developing new real-time search capabilities, even as it outsources its existing Internet search technology to Microsoft Corp.

Court over at The Keyword Academy conducted an experiment at HubPages. She built 100 pages in 30 days and made some pretty decent money. You can read about it here . The question is, Where do you make your money in the keyword business? An old friend of mine is a real estate investor. He buys houses cheap, fixes them up and sells them. He likes to say that he makes his money when he buys the house, not when he sells it.

Court over at The Keyword Academy conducted an experiment at HubPages. She built 100 pages in 30 days and made some pretty decent money. You can read about it here . The question is, Where do you make your money in the keyword business? An old friend of mine is a real estate investor. He buys houses cheap, fixes them up and sells them. He likes to say that he makes his money when he buys the house, not when he sells it.

Webtrends has acquired Widemile, adding their multivariate testing and optimization services to their offering. Widemile's platform provides advanced visitor segmentation, real-time reporting, intuitive wizards, and best practices training. "Webtrends now offers the most open, elegant and powerful analytics and optimization platform available anywhere. Our customers want to further leverage the rich data set available with Webtrends Analytics,

BrightRoll is launching Performance Pricing models for online video advertisements.

Remember back in May when Google launched Search Options as part of its Searchology day? Well, now they're rolling it out to Image Search as well. If you don't remember, Search Options provides a panel on the left side of the results page which helps you filter the results. Search Options originally launched just on the main Google web page. As pretty much all of Google launches, this one is being rolled out. I wasn't yet able to access it. How about you?

Earlier today, I wrote a piece about the whole imbroglio between Google Voice and iPhone cohorts Apple and AT&T. Now the Federal Communications Commission if getting involved. For those of you who haven't been following the issue, Apple and/or AT&T rejected the Google Voice phone management application and punted third-party Voice apps from the iPhone App Store, ostensibly because these apps duplicated features in Apple's iPhone.

by Mike Krumboltz Forget Hollywood â?" the past seven days were all about Washington, D.C. The president hosted a highly anticipated get-together to talk about race relations, while the birther community set out to prove that the commander in chief wasn't born in the United States. Both events caused a stir in Search and on the Buzz. Join us for a look back at those stories and more with the Buzz Week in Review. A cold one with the president A few weeks ago,

Following up the search options feature which was introduced recently, Google is has now implemented similar option feature to its Image Search property. It's a pretty simple feature but could save you some valuable searching time if you want to narrow down your image search to get the most accurate search results. Essentially,