This has been a quiet week search engine wise, but we have found some interesting articles for you.

• Google Revenues: What’s Up? What’s Down?

  Improved profitability has come as a direct result of responsible cost-cutting activities and decreased headcount (Traffick Apr 17 2009)

• KIDO’Z Operating System for Kids : A No Kidding Business Proposition

  A startup developing the right tool for a highly focused and important demographic - parents with little kids. (SE Journal Apr 17 2009)

• Google Gives More Results Sitelinks, With a Twist

  Google is allowing non-first results to have sitelinks, but there are fewer and they appear as one line underneath the result. Check out this snorkling result (SE Watch Apr 17 2009)

• Why You Need a Social Media Champion

  Social Media can be pretty tough sell to the senior management or to clients who have just gotten their arms around the whole “SEO and PPC thing”. (SM Gurus Apr 17 2009)

• Google Profiles

  It not only provides you with yet another social network-like page to play around with, but since it’s Google, they’re promising to make your name searchable on Google. (Google Tutor Apr 16 2009)

• Dinosaur at the Gate

  Google is in a battle royal over whether it has the right to profit so profligately from newspaper content at a time when journalism is in such jeopardy. (NYT Apr 14 2009)

• Twitter: New Whipping Boy

  Coverage of Twitter has morphed from “What use is it anyway?” to “Twitter is evil.” (Beyond Search Apr 18 2009)

• As execs defect, is this the end of an era for Google?

  Omid Kordestani, Google’s business founder, will leave his post to become a senior adviser to the company’s founders and chief executive (Venture Beat Apr 16 2009)

• New Google Boss Same as the Old Boss

  Google has lost a bit of talent in recent weeks, leading to fears of a brain drain at Googleplex (Google Watch Apr 17 2009)

• Twitter from Google Reader easily with Treader

  Google Tutor Apr 16

• Ask Since Jeeves: Adding Video News within Search Results to Image and News Clustering

  SEO by the Sea takes a look at Ask’s patents (Apr 16 2009)

• A Deeper Look At Robots.txt

  How many of us knew that in addition to the disallow directive there’s a noindex directive that Googlebot obeys? (SE Land Apr 16 2009)

• An Illustrated Guide To Using Twitter

  A visual guide to twitter which highlights some of the ways twitter can be helpful either for personal use or business. (Applicant April 2009 via Search Cowboys)

• Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One: Yahoo Management and Staff Set on Shuffle Again

  Yes, more layoffs are indeed coming to Yahoo (BoomTown Apr 15 2009)

• Twazzup: New All-In-One Twitter Search Engine

  While the major search engines continue to sit in the proverbial driveway, real-time search is in high gear (SE Land Apr 14 2009)

• Don’t Forget SEO For Navigational Searches

  The HTML title-tag content on the site’s home page was modified to say Home Page on purpose (SE Land Apr 17 2009)

• Links That Might Not Appear As Links

  Brett Tabke and Webmaster World on links you may get that might not appear as the typical link. (SE Roundtable Apr 17 2009)

• Microsoft Combines Live Search Products with Cashback Program

  Microsoft recently announced the launch of an improved cashback shopping site. (Page Traffic Apr 17 2009)

• Google Desperately Trying to Make YouTube Profitable

  Andy Beal Apr 17

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