The search engine company has taken another step into the newsfeed advertising space, as it submits a patent on contextual RSS ad placement technology.

Taughnee Stone writes that she’s starting a new Pro Blog – the Alaska Blog and writes an interesting post about the first four days blogging and the response that she’s had so far.

20th Century Fox will release content in Blu-ray format when those players become available on the marker.

The slogan “Golf – Is it in you?” would fit very nicely in the hallowed portals of the Golf Hall of Fame.

Yahoo UK & Ireland has signed a deal with ITV, in which ITV’s sites will feature a Yahoo search box at the top of each page, and will allow users to search within the ITV site, or across the web.

If you are the owner of a new website, trying to get a decent ranking from the mighty google, you will no doubt answer with a resounding, NO! Recent findings indicate that Google’s algorithm has an ageing filter, which put in simple terms, makes it harder for a new webmaster to get high ranking in the SERP’s, in the short term at least.

Hey, Google has a cool new aggregator. I’m getting a bit of traffic from it. Have you checked it out yet?…

Sunnyvale-based portal company Yahoo names former IBM Computer Science Principles head to lead Yahoo! Research.

Sunnyvale based Yahoo Inc. announced on Thursday the hiring of Prabhakar Raghavan, a former IBM researcher, to develop certain areas for Yahoo including search and information navigation, social media, community, personalization and mobility.

If you haven’t read Niall Cook’s description of the blog Hill & Knowlton’s London office created to address the terrorist situation, it’s worth your time.

An interesting concept – write your blog posts and then make that content available in audio format for anyone to listen to your blog.

Federated Department Stores will be rebranding about 330 stores that it acquires from May Deparment stores, with the Macy’s name in 2006.

As Federated Department Stores acquires stores from May Department stores, it will rebrand about 330 stores to Macy’s sometime next year.

Yahoo said on Wednesday they formed a search distribution partnership with Connexion by Boeing. This deal will be great for both companies as they both strive to offer stronger services to their customers.

First it was Frank Barnako from CBS Marketwatch. Then it was Anjali Athavaley from the Washington Post.

I want my I want my I want my MTV mobile messaging platform. Somehow it just doesn’t have the same ring as the slogan of my youth but then again, it’s not my youth anymore is it. As recent studies show, this generation of youth likes the instant messaging phenom and MTV plans on utilizing it.

There are many schools of thought on how to build strong backlinks to a Web site. Some webmasters build reciprocal links, while others register their site in many directories. Still others do both of those, and rent links as well!

The heavily visited Spanish language site will use Google’s search technology on its web properties.

Every now and then you read about identity theft. I am not talking about the theft of your personal identity, sure that happens too, I am talking about the theft of a website’s identity. The big question is: What should you do if somebody with deeper pockets and more push creates a website similar to yours, stealing your limelight, and your hard earned visitors? Let me answer your question from my own experience.

Ingenious? Or a waste of precious time? You be the judge. A New York City man is utilizing Google Maps, Flickr, and the mobile camera phones of his fellow citizens to track the city’s multitude of potholes. Call it a “holey quest.” Yeah, that’s a zinger.

Todd Mintz writes a very worthwhile article at How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger which I think is a must read for bloggers wanting to start out in ProBlogging.

Yahoo Search made two important announcements this week, both of which involve exclusive rights to provide search results in interesting venues.