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AdWords Knows Your Landing Page Speed

Speed will be part of the quality score impacting one's keyword buys in Google's AdWords service, with Google now showing landing page load times in the AdWords interface.

Google May Start Working With Intel SSDs

Solid state drives aren't exactly mainstream.  They would fit right in with the solar panels, Prius fleets, and organic food that can be found around the Googleplex, however, and that's reportedly where they're going.

Google Sites Top U.S. Video Property

U.S. Internet users watched 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, a 13 percent increase over February and a 64 percent boost over March of 2007 according to comScore Video Metrix.Google was again the top U.S. video property with more than 4.3 billion videos viewed (38% share of all videos) gaining 2.6 shares over the previous month. YouTube made up 98 percent of all videos viewed at Google Sites.

Is Harmony.com Worth $5 Million?

Shortly after Fund.com raked in $10 million, reportedly a record-breaker for a straight domain price, Jay Westerdal, the 30-year-old CEO of Name Intelligence, Inc., put up Harmony.com at the starting bid of $5 million, a sale that went live officially today.

RSSmeme Puts Out API

Bloggers looking to brag on themselves (or "share their most popular stories," if you prefer) can now do it more easily thanks to Benjamin Golub.  Golub's RSSmeme API will create a list that should work with all of the most popular blogging platforms.

Researchers See Gmail "Spam And Phishing Threat"

So long as it winds up in the trashcan, spam isn't too much of a problem for end users.  Yet security researchers have discovered a way in which spammers could use Gmail to send a massive number of messages straight into inboxes.

eBay To Move To PayPal Only In Australia

After negative publicity about an eBay plan to require users in Australia to use PayPal-only, its online payment system, rumors about a similar policy in the U.S. were met with a forceful denial from the company."In the U.S., we are not mulling, planning, or otherwise seriously considering a move to PayPal-only," wrote spokesman Usher Lieberman on the company's eBay Ink blog. "There are U.S. market-specific reasons why PayPal-only is something we simply cannot do in the U.S."

The Joy Of Rep

Reputation management sounds so cold and formal. While it may excite the MBA crowd, the rest of us want to see a little joy with rep.

Google Previews Friend Connect

There is a trend emerging: online giants making it so users can take their social networks with them anywhere they go on the web, sort of like digital carpooling. Google threw in its offering today, or will tonight anyway, with Google Friend Connect, a wash-n-wear service for incorporating social networking into non-social-networking websites.

Bloomingdales To Drop Catalog, Puts Focus Online

Macy's Inc. says it will discontinue its Bloomingdales By Mail catalog in early 2009 and will focus on its brand's direct- to-consumer business through the more profitable Bloomingdales.com Web site, which is on track to generate $1billion in 2008.The restructuring will take place incrementally over the next eight months with the goal of reducing redundancies, streamlining operations and focusing on its online business.