Pork may be like mother’s milk to some, but a very few of them would confuse the two because, in general, people understand metaphors. Lawyers don’t. Lawyers don’t get metaphors, even if they did really well on the analogies portion of their LSATs. Search marketer Jennifer Laycock suddenly finds herself trying to teach this subtle nuance of language to lawyers, and the entire SEM community is her assistant.

YouTube is involved in another showdown this time with media giant Viacom who is demanding that the video sharing site remove over 100,000 clips that are owned and licensed by the media company.

If you want to test your position in Google for a certain search term, you can do so by using the Google website. By position I don’t mean Page Rank, but the actual place in the search results.

Broadband Internet access in North American households has increased from 29 percent at the end of 2004 to 41 percent in 2006 according to “North American Consumer Technology Adoption Study 2006″ a Forrester Research study.

I came across an interesting fact today: “The Chinese name for red panda is hunho or firefox, due to their colour and similar size to a fox.” So . . . would the Chinese associate Mozilla’s Firefox browser with a panda bear, despite the fox logo? We’ll soon find out, as Mozilla has announced plans to open a corporate office in Beijing.

It’s only in beta – and the only version that’s currently available is geared towards the Indian market – but a potential replacement for Yahoo Local has been spotted. Called “Our City,” Yahoo describes it as “a dynamic representation of content created by you and everyone else,” adding, “[t]here is a lot to Explore and Share.”

The day after the Super Bowl is coming fast, and with it will be the formal, no-kidding, here it is, launch of the new Yahoo advertising system. Yahoo wants you to be ready for the switch.

As the popularity of Digg has grown through the social media landscape, so have the efforts of those looking to game the system. Digg founder Kevin Rose addressed this controversial issue in his latest blog post.

Anything Yahoo can do, Microsoft already did. In Microsoft’s opinion, they are doing it a lot better than Yahoo and think the portal will just keep on playing catchup when Panama arrives to take on adCenter.

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Online advertised job vacancies saw a six percent seasonal decline from December to January according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series. For the year online advertised vacancies were up 12 percent for the nation as a whole.

Conventional wisdom says that there’s no such thing as a perfect employee performance appraisal form. And with so many sorry examples of appraisal forms around, conventional wisdom might almost seem correct.

Shuman Ghosemajumder dedicated two blog posts to blasting ClickForensics and its latest assessment of click fraud taking place in the pay per click industry.

How far would you be willing to go to score two 50-yard line tickets to the Super Bowl this year? For one Chicago Bears fan the answer is apparently pretty far. Jennifer Gordon is offering the space on her nearly nine month pregnant belly to be used for advertising in exchange for two tickets to the big game.

MySpace.com partnered with Sentinel Tech that they are donating a Sentinel Safe database to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The database, jointly developed by MySpace and Sentinel, enables websites identify, remove, and block convicted sex offenders from online communities.

At WebProNews, we try to write about important and interesting things, but groundbreaking developments simply don’t occur every day. There are times, even, when it seems like there’s nothing to report. Google News is apparently experiencing a similar problem – earlier today, the site was entirely devoid of stories.

Traditionally, the magic word count for SEO has been around 300 words. As Google gets more particular about what it picks up due to higher concentrations of MFA (made-for-AdSense) pages, that new optimal count may be 500-600 words with a long tail.

I’m sitting with Mike Arrington right now (the guy who does TechCrunch) and he and Jason Calacanis are starting a new “demo” conference. Here’s Jason’s writeup. Here’s Mike’s.

As Ask.com drops off some new Smart Answers for the month of February, they also let out a cry of “Tetsuoooooo!” which of course can only be answered with “Kanedaaaaaaa!”

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been relentless in its pursuit of those individuals found to be taking part in peer-to-peer music sharing. Numerous lawsuits have been filed by the RIAA, most of which are settled out of court for an arbitrary fee.

The buzz surrounding the announcement of Apple’s iPhone has reached feverish proportions throughout the blogosphere in recent weeks. Not wanting to be left out of the smartphone party, rumors are now circulating that Microsoft is working on plans to develop its own Zune branded cellular phone.

Mike Torres writes about a hidden Windows Vista option that gives you a much more powerful search in Windows Vista.

BIGResearch’s latest simultaneous Media Usage Study raises a big flag for marketers and PR practitioners: you’re operating in a new reality of a consumer controlled communication model.

In today’s episode of “bloggers take sides on some issue” I present the Flickr Old Skool Debate.