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Facebook To Tweak Status Updates

Compared to anything you’ll see coming from the BBC or CNN, this is admittedly a pretty minor piece of news.  Yet it’s nonetheless nice to hear that Facebook plans to drop the word “is” from its users’ status updates.

Blogger Breaks Down, Bounces Back

Google’s Blogger is an incredibly popular publishing system, and for about an hour Wednesday morning, it took a break from all its fans.  Just a breather, you know.  Or, in what seems a more likely explanation, Blogger broke.

Google Losing Fight For Its Name

The search advertising company has been fighting against the usage of its name as a verb ever since Merriam-Webster put 'google' in the dictionary. It's a battle they are not going to win.

Blogcatalog vs Technorati?

As most of my readers are no doubt aware, I am a strong supporter of sharing the link love, but I always advocate sharing it in a focused manner, preferably from relevant content or from comments and trackbacks. If you trackback/pingback this blog you receive a reciprocal link between highly relevant content automatically, and not only Google and other major search engines count the links as relevant, but also blogging search engines such as Technorati, though with Technorati it is best to do it on a more recent post. If you want to share the love from your blog, I compiled an extensive list of "dofollow" and "nofollow" resources covering major platforms such as Wordpress (on your own domain), blogger and Drupal. It is also possible on Typepad, and Dawud Miracle and Karen have been discussing ways to present the complicated procedure to remove nofollow on Typepad. Hopefully I will be able to link to a solution soon.

Editorial Status Keeps Yahoo Search Ads Real

Yahoo's Search Marketing folks compare the review of ad campaigns posted to their service with the process of giving a Presidential candidate an editorial endorsement.

Google Advising Sites Of Badware Status

Sites that get flagged as possibly hazardous destinations in Google's search results will receive notifications from Google about the problem.

Adwords Editor Version 3

Google have now released Adwords Editor version 3. I am a little suprised the Inside Adwords blog does not accounce these new releases straight away so everyone can update. So whats new with version 3?

Cutts: PageRank Zero Problem Fixed

Reach for your copy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and press the DON'T PANIC! button; the problem with some sites seeing a zero PageRank after Google's latest update should be corrected by now.

Cutts Releases Infrastructure Status Report

Matt Cutts has given the infrastructure report of the current month. The quarterly PageRank export is on its way.

Size Of Friends List A Status Symbol For Teens

The Breakfast Club is a lot different these days. A leather jacket, a sports car, the right girlfriend may all still be factors (but I wouldn't know, I'm 30) for weighing teen social status, but so is the number of people on your friends list.