Microsofts interactive agency Razorfish is the subject of some varying rumors as of late. The one common thread in all of these reports is that Microsoft is shopping the company. That much we know for sure. Where they end up is the subject of much speculation. In the Internet marketing press it depends on who you listen to and / or trust that will help you make your very own prediction.

Google Book Search has not always had the largest of cheering sections; between authors wanting more money and watchdog organizations calling it a monopoly, the program's encountered a lot of challenges. But an important organization stood up for Google Book Search earlier this week. Ryan Singel reports,

If you're into UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), then you have a new way to get quick info on the mixed martial arts organization. Bing has added UFC athlete information to its Instant Answers feature. Simply type the athlete name into the Bing search box and you'll get the Instant Answer: This update to Instant Answers isn't perfect, though. Searching for Kevin Burns turns up this result: But if you search Kevin Burns MMA, you'll get the result: Additionally,

by Claudine Zap Kelly Clarkson hasn't lost her voice. But she seems to have lost a few of her curves in her cover photo for Self magazine . The songstress is gracing the September cover of Self's "total body confidence issue." But is it all just lip service if the cover girl is being digitally covered up? Self magazine admits it did airbrush the singer, but no more than they do every other cover model. The editor-in-chief argued, "Our picture shows her confidence and beauty.

Earlier this week, Delicious launched a new redesign of its homepage and some new search features . Yesterday they showed off the details of the search features, which included time filters, a trends graph, tag filters, enhanced results, and suggestions. Today they are elaborating on the new sharing features. Instead of copying and pasting URLs, you can now email or tweet bookmarks directly from Delicious. To do this,

You know that excited anticipation of heading back to summer camp? Its been a year and you just started sporting a peach-fuzz stache. Youre a little taller, maybe even a bit wiser. And girls actually talk to you now. Well, thats kind of how we feel about heading back to SES San Jose . As Bing, this is our first SES, and we cant wait to catch up with old friends and definitely make some new ones. Lots of new ones. So, be sure to catch us at sessions,

Using basic SEO techniques to optimize the indexing and presence of PDF and other document types is an essential part of the entire search marketing mix, especially for businesses which insist on having their online documents in PDF format, for restaurants which use PDF for menus or ebook & whitepaper publishers who utilize online PDF docs for marketing campaigns. Even if a PDF doc is named properly, (not just a string of code as many PDF docs online are),

As news broke yesterday about the Denial of Service (DoS) attacks affecting Twitter , revelations began to unfold about how widespread the attacks really were. Facebook slowed down and produced error pages. LiveJournal experienced downtime as well. While Google didn't go down, they were affected. This statement from a Google spokesperson explains their involvment: We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DoS attack this morning,

Has your organization created an online ad that exhibits fairness, accuracy, and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community? If so,The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation wants to know. The group is looking for entries for its First GLAAD Media Awards in Advertising, to be held Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Ads must have run between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. In May, GLAAD launched its Advertising Media Program ,

What are your direct competitors doing in the way of getting more backlinks? My research in over 30 verticals sheds some light on the question. This is part 1 of 2. In this part, I'll address three issues: Practical uses for this competitive intelligence, My methodology in conducting this research, Some fun data points for niche research, In part 2, " Backlink Research Shows How To Compete Elite (Part 2) " I cover: Screenshots of the data, My analysis and conclusions,