TechCrunch has more information on AIM Pages, AOL’s effort to court the MySpace crowd.

Alexa, the oft-used but never trusted web stats site has switched over its search engine from Google to Windows Live, proudly displaying the new “powered by Windows Live” logo on search results pages.

An experiment in using contextual advertising to raise funds for the Public Broadcasting Service brought Google’s ubiquitous advertising to the broadcaster’s website.

If you read all of the websites dedicated to Asp.Net you will inevitably read about the wonders of the DataGrid, DataList, and Repeater controls. While each of these has its place, if you are only displaying data there is a much faster and more efficient means to do so.

Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that the AdSense Mediapartners bot, commonly known as “mediabot,” is indexing webpages for Google’s Big Daddy index, according to some well-known bloggers. What that means to webmasters: having two versions of a webpage (one for each bot) can get you into duplicate content issues.

A session on local search at WebmasterWorld’s PubCon Boston covered some of the essential points on making one’s business part of an Internet user’s local experience; our Mike McDonald passed along the details.

I don’t link to Seth Godin too often, but he does have an interesting observation on how Google changed the way businesses should look at their web content.

Art imitating life, Web imitating print, and now it’s print imitating Web. Since December, says the Associated Press, Verizon has been testing an auction model in its printed Boston Yellow Pages.

In sales, everyone knows it’s a lot easier to call a potential client from a pre-qualified lead, rather than making a cold call.

KinderStart filed suit yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose alleging that Google improperly “blacklisted” its website.

Delicious has quietly rolled out a redesign to their URL pages that offers some pretty rich information such as the URL’s bookmarking history, user notes, common tags and more.

Many website owners don’t spend much time thinking about where their visitors enter their site. They usually want to see their traffic arrive through the website’s home page.

My only regret about missing the first half of ETech last week is that I didn’t get to attend Simon’s JavaScript Tutorial.

Many webmaster know that Google can read the text in their Flash files.

Over at ProBlogger, Aaron Brazell has written an outstanding tutorial on how to integrate tags into your blog and why this is important.

Any minor excitement over Microsoft’s Office Live beta and its free page-hosting option just evaporated, as Google now offers an easy-to-use web page creator and 100 MB of storage space.

The search advertising company has expanded its magazine ad test to a broader number of magazines in three of its vertical markets. Google’s test of magazine ads began last summer, and involved two computer-oriented publications.

Not so very long ago adding a graph or chart to a web page or application required a fair amount of programming knowledge and was rather time consuming for even the most experienced.

A report has begun to circulate that Google’s vaunted minimalist results pages now display graphs on the left side of the page.

Dennis Hwang has done it again, with a braille doodle to honor the birthday of Louis Braille.

The homepage for Google Base has been tweaked a bit, with a much simpler look-and-feel and a few links in red.