Someone has found a way to integrate pornographic images into completely innocent Yahoo! search results.

Google Book Search prevents authors from going down in literary history as plagiarists by offering a searchable database of books.

Flach Film, a Paris-based film distributor, has filed suit against Google in Paris Commercial court, citing copyright infringement regarding a movie that appeared on Google Video.

Mobile CRM is emerging into the mainstream as an excellent method of relaying information between marketing and sales personnel.

A video of an autistic 17-year-old boy being bullied in a Turin classroom made it onto Google Video, and Italian authorities are furious that the content was not caught by Google staffers.

It’s good to see that the CIPR, the body representing the public relations profession in the UK, has taken a lead in formally starting a debate about social media and PR.

WebTrends Inc recently launched version 2 of their powerful on-the-fly behavior analysis and real-time visitor segmentation product – Marketing Warehouse

A couple of parties to a lawsuit in Belgium against Google for its news indexing have settled with the search advertising giant, but Google will have to wait until 2007 to fight an injunction against its scraping of news content managed by distributor Copiepresse.

Looks like the American Marketing Association has its eye on social networks like MySpace as the shopping malls of the Web era.

Google invited students to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets* to come up with ideas for combating global warming. One of the ideas makes it as full-page ad in today’s USA Today [PDF], Google says. Among the ideas:

Microsoft has released the latest version of XML Notepad, a pretty cool app for working with XML files in a manner far more capable than your usual Windows Notepad.

Never happen… but the idea helped with this awesome mock-up site. I, for one, am particularly fond of the tagline: It’s better now… like seriously… Another interesting feature – the RSS technology employed. In this case, RSS stands for Real …

With the search engine industry expressing a desire for webmasters to employ functional Sitemaps, it’s easy to see how important these documents can be when it comes to being indexed correctly. Now Google, who initially launched the Sitemap program, is …

I did a lot of clean-up work at this website over the long Thanksgiving weekend. This was all due to radically changing the layout. Some of that was quick and simple do do, but for older pages I needed to do some hand editing before switching to the new format.

How will you be doing your holiday shopping this year?

The podcast audience has grown in the past six months, says the Pew Internet and American Life Project, but the new medium still has yet to catch a serious wave.

Many professional lies are passed off as good information because they are just part of an industry vernacular or learning curve. For example, many people say make quality content, but never attempt to define what quality content is, or even how certain types of quality content are being marginalized by scrapers, social sites, user generated content, automated news sites, and search engines.

Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users has a terrific take today on why expert users should stop worrying so much about whether using jargon is offputting to newbies and simply accept the fact that talking to other people who share your passion-and its special language-is more fun and stimulating than talking to people who think you are a babbling lunatic.

The brick and mortar storefronts crowded with bargain-seeking shoppers on Black Friday had plenty of traffic at their online counterparts the day before, as shoppers sought refuge from relatives and chores by spending some quality time with their Internet connections and online retailers.

Two things seem apparent: the general public has embraced the myth of Cyber Monday; the operators of CyberMonday.com were not fully prepared for this. Several times this morning, I have tried to bring up the site, only to be timed …

I first met Lawrence Coburn when we presented together on a Public Relations panel during a WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference in Boston. Lawrence told a great story about being at the right place at the right time and taking proper advantage to build publicity for his web site, RateItAll.com.

I might have mentioned the advantage of spending Black Friday online (or waiting for Cyber Monday) to certain crack-of-dawn-rising family members if not for the tryptophan coma my mother caused, and for the fact that it was 3 a.m. This Internet shopping thing, according to Nielsen//NetRatings, is catching on, even if this rise-and-shop ritual is still strongly in play.

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In an effort to increase exposure to their fledgling merchant service, Google Checkout, the search giant has announced that starting today (known as Cyber Monday), shoppers using their merchant service will be privy to special discounts based on the amount …