by Jon Brooks Weeks ago, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote a letter to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in which he stressed that Scotland's compassionate release of the dying Lockerbie bomberâ?"if it occurredâ?"should be treated as a "a purely private family occasion." That didn't happen.

by Jon Brooks Weeks ago, in a letter to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi , British PM Gordon Brown stressed that should Scotland grant a compassionate release to the dying Abdel Basset al-Megrahiâ?"incarcerated for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 above Lockerbieâ?"it be treated as a "a purely private family occasion" upon his return to Libya. That didn't happen. The disconnect between the outrage over al-Megrahi's release in the U.S.

Posted by randfish I'm thrilled to announce that after months of hard work, SEOmoz's biennial Search Engine Ranking Factors is finally launching. Every two years, we survey 100 of the industry's top SEO minds. In 2009, 72 SEOs participated in the data gathering process, answering survey questions that consumed hours of time. The resulting document is an amazing aggregation of data about how search engines rank documents and, at least in my opinion,

Chitika did some sleuthing of its search engine traffic and uncovered a data point regarding the jihad between and Linux and Windows. The ad network compared the operating system and search engine data for more than 163 million searches and discovered 94.61 percent of all Linux search traffic was from Google, compared with 78.54 percent of Windows user searches. Only 8 percent of Windows users searched Bing, with a mere .77 percent of Linux searches came through Bing.

There's a new face in the world of price comparison site marketing, but how will Gio Compario compare to the Aleksandr, founder of Compare the Meerkat?

The bricks and mortar world has known for decades that the best people to target are moms. They generally hold the purse strings and are also the one who generally do the shopping. Of course, it's not true in every aspect of marketing, but you would be surprised at how much marketing is designed to influence moms. It seems the online world has not been as fast to pick up on this aspect of ecommerce. Can you target moms when it comes to your website,

Nicholas Fox, the Business Product Management Director of AdWords at Google, gave one of the three keynote speeches at SES San Jose 2009 . Yes, yes, he provided a glimpse of where he saw search advertising headed in the near future. And that included finding what you were looking for without using keywords, richer media formats, and cost-per-acquisition. All these were headline grabbers.

Burma (Myanmar) launches a search engine contest. Pandia suspects it is a ploy designed to develop censorship technology. According to Alt Search Engines The Myanmar Computer Professional Association (MCPA) has invited individuals and groups to compete for the MCPA Challenge Winner 2009 under the title of the Myanmar Search Engine Contest. The Alt Search Engine article looks like a rewrite of a press release, and is fetched from TMC.net.

Here we go! The major search engines news of the week on one easy accessible page: Where Yahoo Leaves Google in the Dust When serving financial news and information, for example, Yahoo draws 17.5 times the traffic of Google, according to comScore Media Metrix. (New York Times Aug 22 2009) Google Rises to Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon Google Book Search Challenge The non-profit Internet Archive group next week plans to announce the Open Book Alliance,

This week Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon decided to join the forces trying to stop Google's book scanning program. Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has made deals with publishers and libraries in order to be allowed to scan all the books in the world. It may sound like a mad man talking, but Google's plan is actually to index the texts of all the printed material in the world and make it searchable on the net. The idea is not to provide all this content for free,