Jeremy Wagstaff found some really bad examples of spam in Google News.

Now that “the cup” is done with… talk about a lame finish… sports enthusiasts might want to track the tour de france using google earth with some very cool 3d fly-throughs.

Yahoo! continues to bank on social media and user-generated content as a means to capture eyeballs as the company officially launched its Trip Planner service today after months of beta testing.

Dumbfind.com founder Chris Seline isn’t above making up silly words to promote his new products. Seline dumbfound that “searchiness” was appropriate for his “searchiest search engine,” and recently launched a search/social bookmarking hybrid he calls “Searchles.”

Oh, oh, this is becoming a trend. A human being on Dell’s Web site? Calling Jeff Jarvis, calling Jeff Jarvis! Oh, he already chimed in. Steve Rubel did too and says the same thing.

It’s commonly known that the Google corporation has many enthusiastic supporters. Most of the company’s workforce also seems very happy with their employer. Now, someone’s come right out and asked the question: “cult or corporation?”

Google may not voluntary provide information on the identity of its advertisers, but if you have a good case, then the company may tell you how to have the courts make them do it.

Michael Affronti explains how some of the RSS functionality is evolving in Office 2007, especially how Outlook 2007 handles duplicates.

Planning your use of RSS feeds for marketing and online PR gets better results

The TEDTalks series featuring talks by Al Gore, David Pogue, Tony Robbins, and others at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference can be searched for words and phrases with the help of PodZinger’s video search technology.

Like John Lennon, Google CEO Eric Schmidt must have received a visit from Mother Mary, whispering words of wisdom about click fraud. Using an economic thought model reminiscent of “laissez faire” and “trickle down,” Schmidt said the best way to deal with fraudulent clicks is to “let it happen.”

Microsoft is offering Windows users a “private folder”-a password-protected storage space that will make its home on your desktop. There are a few Faustian catches, though, not the least of which is the requirement to run the Windows Genuine Advantage program before installing Private Folder 1.0.

Josh Jaffe writes about a developing Google product, Google Health Scrapbook, a service that will allow users to manage their entire medical lives, from adding medical providers, checking medical records, and paying bills. Google met with WebMD in New York last week to partner with them on this project, which would also provide information on hospitals to help patients choose.

Emad Fanous has a post on how the W3C, the internet standards consortium, is listing its top supporters on a page with a massive PageRank.

The latest big hubbub not involving blond newsreaders is that eBay has added Google Checkout to its list of payment services not allowed in its marketplace.

Ahead of Search Engine Strategies 2006 conference in San Jose, Google’s best-known engineer suggested some basic approaches to making a visiting Googlebot behave when it drops by your website.

Nick Denton of Gawker Media , one of the first successful bloggers, recently made some changes to his blogging empire. Apparently editors at Gawker, Wonkette, Gizmodo and Gridskipper were moved or replaced.

Broadband users are 3x more likely to use RSS feeds.

PayPal’s president has been replaced by Skype’s president, while eBay drops Google Checkout into the laundry list of alternative payment services banned by the online marketplace.

How many lost customers would it take before you seriously reconsidered your business strategy and services? 1000? A million? For AOL, it looks like the magic number of bird-flipping subscribers, worn thin by shoddy customer service and slow connections, was around eight million.

The importance of Internet marketing is continuing to expand. Surveys of all kinds show a major shift in traditional marketing budgets to dollars being spent online to market all types of products and services.

NVIDIA released its NVPerfHUD 4 performance analysis tool, a profiling and visual debugging heads-up display (HUD) program for Direct3D applications supporting Microsoft DirectX 9.0c and Windows XP on select NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs).

JavaServer Pages has been in the web developer arsenal for several years, but “Ruby on Rails” author Bruce Tate thinks Ruby may offer a better approach to web page development.

While Big Blue already makes high-end enterprise search and content integration software, it found a need to make entry-level versions of those products available in the small to medium business markets.