\“CrunchGear’s Nicholas Deleon pointed out that misspelling Cuil – as if that were possible – results in a bit of NSFW action for those who transpose the i and the l (culi.com).\”

Completely up-to-date article from the official Google blog.

\”[...] Mr Semel mandated Tim Armstrong, the company\‘s US advertising and commerce head, to resolve the issues, which he is doing through what is known internally as \“Project Spaghetti\”.\”

The Semantic Web is tentatively the future, but has Google already won the search engine wars? Desperate move by Microsoft to claw back cutting-edge technologies.

More Microsoft interested in Yahoo! stuff from Om Malik.

The most important Google announcement this year. Flash files have always represented an SEO nightmare, this will change things.

\“On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.\”

Another gem from the undisputed master of Web usability.

\“Users scan lists by moving their eyes rapidly down the left edge. Menu items that are right-aligned make scanning more difficult.\”

With pages like this everywhere, it\‘s no short wonder directories are getting devalued for artificial cross-linking above everything else. Quality over quantity in Google for directory subs. Feel more wary about bulk submissions packages these days.

\“In the past few months we have been exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages and URLs that we otherwise couldn\‘t find and index for users who search on Google. Specifically, when we encounter a element on a high-quality site, we might choose to do a small number of queries using the form.\”

Spot-on article from Michael Martinez, is there really such thing as an “Advanced SEO Conference”? Everything I’ve seen is the same high-level, generic bollocks. Who in their right mind would sit in front of a crowd and divulge their greatest little secrets anyway?

Time on the conference circuit, partying & uploading ‘cliquey’ party photos – or time doing nitty-gritty SEO for your clients…

\“We are extremely excited and proud to announce the production release of Magento 1.0. The new community site will be online later this week and feature additional functionality, highlighted by Magento Connect.\”

Check out what is one of the prettiest and most functional e-commerce CMS\‘s out there.

“The bottom line here is that no one has published a viable test for determining whether PageRank sculpting actually works. You cannot measure PageRank and you have no knowledge of how its awarded, passed around, and received but you have convinced yourself that PageRank sculpting works because you made some changes on your site and you saw changes in the search results.”

Highly amusing post about some naive people who decided to name their online marketing company “Web Predators”. Shout out to Matt Davies for picking this up.

\“The Web was intended to connect everything on the Internet without regard for need or quality. People could make their own decisions about what was useful. That day is now dead. We’re now moving into the era of the World Notfollowed Web — it will look very strange because it can only be seen through the lens of the Google algorithm, but everyone will dance to this tune because it’s about to become a standard.\”

Another gem find from Jerry West. The PDF download at the end of the post is a must-read and will help raise awareness of the key indicators of spam.