About a month ago, WebProNews interviewed Google's Matt Cutts , who suggested that page speed may soon become a ranking factor in the world's most popular search engine. Speed has been a consistent theme with the company over the past year or so, with the release of various tools and announcements. It has become quite evident that Google places a great deal of importance on speeding up the web. With that in mind,

Image by Bruce Clay, Inc via Flickr There were seven solo presentations at SES Chicago 2009 , which reflects a change in format for some of the topics covered at the conference and the consistently high rantings that some speakers have received over the years. One of those solo presentations, which was given by Christine Churchill, president of KeyRelevance.com , was on keyword research. So, how many keywords do you need in your paid search account?

AOL continues to travel into the brave new world that it is venturing into as the lines have been cut that once attached it to TimeWarner. Of course, there will be a lot of scrutiny which often leads to criticisms but thats just part of doing business.

Mark Zuckerberg and I arent Facebook friends. Thats cool; I dont know him. Until recently, all I could see of his profile was his picture, networks and friend list. But this morning, either the Facebook CEO had decided thats whats good for the goose is good for the gander, or even he didnt know what the new privacy settings changed. Im going to guess that it was B, because since the articles on True Slant and ValleyWag have run,

An interesting tidbit came out of the Le Web conference in Paris last week. Twitter Co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey apparently failed to flatly deny that Google was planning on buying Twitter. Apparently, he said "There have been no announcements" and when pressed on why he did not deny this - the way Twitters other co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have - Dorsey offered a rather lame: "It [the answer] just came to me." Read into that the way you will,

Hi All, I'm Ashwini, General Manager of MicroPlace. This holiday season, Santa's elves are thinking outside of the gift box. With MicroPlace, investors can give the gift of change. Instead of another tired old necktie for Dad or boring sweater set for Mom, you can purchase a gift that enables .

About a year ago, LinkedIn launched a new search platform, which has turned out to be wildly successful. Search activity has doubled since the update. Of course, their membership has almost doubled as well. No word on whether the chicken or the egg came first on that one. Either way, LinkedIn is improving their search platform with the addition of filters . The filter options are automatically generated and are placed down the left side of the results.

TVGuide.com has tapped ad firm PubMatic in an effort to boost its advertising revenue. "PubMatic has significantly decreased the operational burden of managing multiple ad networks and simultaneously helped us eliminate inefficiencies in our remnant advertising pricing," said Ian Wallin, Vice President, Online Ad Sales, TVGuide.com. "We've enjoyed working with them." TVGuide.com reaches 21 million unique users per month,

by Mike Krumboltz Attention, consumers: Only 11 more shopping days until Christmas. As for how many shipping days are left â?" well, that's a little trickier.  That question is top of mind for Web shoppers, who want to make sure their packages arrive in time to go under the tree. We took a look at some of the shipping charts from the USPS, UPS, and FedEx and summarized our findings below.

Directory & Community Development Greenbust Effort & the Purple Push makrhod headed up two projects to process long-standing edits. During the first, she encouraged editors to process greenbusts that had accumulated over time. The result was that greenbust edits were completely cleared for all directory branches except for World, and even there the number was considerably diminished. In the Purple Push, makrhod again organized editors to process all update requests.