Clipblast.com has released their Top 10 most popular searches for Internet video for 2006. ClipBlast! is proud to present the moments that the public wanted to watch in 2006,” said Gary Baker, ClipBlast! founder and CEO. “But what we’re most proud of is that we’re able to locate and show, in real time, a relevant variety of video – of all kinds, from all types of sources, from all across the Web. That’s something that Google, YouTube and other video-content providers aren’t doing yet.”

It’s a good thing Matt Cutts didn’t promise Google wouldn’t be making any algorithmic changes just before the holiday season, as is Google’s habit. The online purveyors of indie alt-erotica, who are collectively bemoaning the lump of coal Google dropped in their stockings this holiday season, would have cause to climb all over him.

Google’s Blog Search engine, which is an adult in Internet years, surpassed Technorati in market share of visits last week, according to Hitwise’s LeeAnn Prescott. The surge in traffic began in October, when Google placed a link to its blog search engine on Google News.

The build process in ASP.NET 2.0 is very different than in ASP.NET 1.x, because it does not produce a dll file.

Last week, the U.S. Patent Office lifted the 18-month window of secrecy on two patent filings from Microsoft that analysts viewed as attempts by the company aimed at achieving exclusive rights to RSS aggregation technology.

Myths can figure prominently in culture, religion, and entertainment, but most corporations would likely prefer to remain uninvolved. After all, accountants’ spreadsheets just aren’t that compatible with non-factual information. Google probably appreciates it, then, that Ionut Alex. Chitu set about dispelling the top 10 “Google Myths.”

The denouement of the Wall Street Journal’s anti-blog rant continues as we find a delicious example of how a blogger can perform acts of journalism that at least match those of the media elite.

Privacy concerns rendered DoubleClick’s $1.7 billion purchase of Abacus in 1999 a losing proposition; now, DoubleClick has agreed to sell its Abacus unit to Alliance Data Systems for $435 million.

Search term: “mysql WASCE”

How do you get three giants out of quicksand? The biggest giant eats the other two and makes a boat from their bones. That seems to be Wall Street’s approach to building an apt competitor to Google. Shortly after analysts dreamed of a Microsoft-owned Yahoo, they’ve amended their solution to include AOL.

Ionut Alex links to an Opera user JavaScript designed to help Google services work better with the Opera browser.

According to new research from Hitwise average daily visits to ecommerce sites from Thanksgiving through the Thursday before Christmas were up 5.9 percent compared to 2005. The days with the single biggest increases over last year were Cyber Monday the first Monday after Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day.

If you follow search engine news you know that the major search engines are fighting tooth and nail for market share.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a strategic tool helping an organization to gain and edge over its competitors by helping in successfully integrating its key business operations, synchronizing, planning and optimizing the resources available in the existing extremely competitive environment..

During the nineties, between downsizing and the dot.com era, corporate men and women were becoming endangered species.

Bob sent in an interesting email to me:

The Center for Digital Democracy has put together an elegant explanation of the heightening battle between the telecommunications industry and everybody else that uses the Internet. A lengthy read (for an Internet article), the CDD has outlined what the telcos aim to accomplish and how it affects everything in the future.

Google stopped showing their index size – the page count of all indexed web documents – on their homepage some time ago.

Some sort of battle between Digg’s behind-the-scenes moderators and the SEO community came to a boiling point just before Christmas as Lee Odden’s domain became part of Digg’s banned list.

Christmas 2006 was another gangbuster for Apple’s iTunes website and all things iPod-associated. Microsoft’s Zune? Not so much. So far, Zune is the GoBot to Apple’s Transformer.

You may have heard that recently many seo and marketing related sites are getting banned by Digg for the scandalous offense of being seo and marketing related sites.

I posted a while back about the Meaty Middle, and why it was more important than the Long Tail for the application I’m involved with called RMX Direct.

New York Times reports that John Edwards will announce his candidacy on Thursday. It reports: “Mr. Edwards, who is arguably the most Web-savvy candidate in the ’08 race to date, is using Thursday’s event to try to gin up his supporters via the Internet.”

It was a very scary moment. I was looking at the home page of my blog, and there was nothing but a Wordpress database error of some sort.