A disclaimer: This article will in no way disparage Turkey, “Turkishness,” or the Eurasian country’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It turns out that doing that sort of thing can get you banned in Turkey, which is what YouTube discovered for itself on Wednesday.

After all is clicked and bought, Thanksgiving weekend numbers are in with clear retail sector winners. While Best Buy, eBay, Wal-Mart, and Amazon (the four horsemen?) are directing all the Web traffic, it is still unclear which day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, pulls in the most shoppers.

AOL and Ask each have made an effort to draw attention to their search engines with very topical categories for this week: what to eat and where to shop.

For the past week you probably have read an article or seen something on TV about how to cook and carve a turkey. What you probably have not seen is what to do with all the leftover turkey.

The headline above may be a bit premature as the claimed email received from MSN search team by a SearchEngineWatch forums member has not been acknowledged as coming from Microsoft. A quote:

The US Thanksgiving holiday arrives next Thursday, November 24th, and online searchers have been hunting for menu suggestions and recipes on AOL.

The Yahoo search blog team is already in Thanksgiving holiday spirits. In their most recent blog post they discuss how searches are spiking for Turducken, Tofurky and other bird related items.

I had an email exchange with an SEO client today after his webmaster called him pushing reciprocal linking software (when all this web designer was after was to generate some extra work from a client that hasn’t needed him for awhile). Then that client called me after he received my email de- nouncing the software, fully convinced by a follow-up phone call from his web designer that the reciprocal linking soft- ware WAS valuable.

So you want to start a web business, huh? As those of us here in the US ponder our holiday of Thanksgiving-with its traditional turkey meal-I thought I would share 5 ways to know if the idea you have will actually make you money if it is just a turkey.