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• Third Google Webmaster Chat Questions and Answers!

  A lot of useful webmaster info from Google staff (Page Traffic Oct 23 2008)

• Blog Search Engines : The Complete Overview

  The most helpful and unique blog search engines (SE Journal Oct 24 2008)

• Google Analytics Add 6 Enterprise-Friendly Features!

  Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export API, reporting for AdSense publishers, multi-dimensional data visualizations, and an updated interface. (PageTraffic Oct 23 2008)

• Google’s Geolocation API Comes to the Browser

  If the browser can detect wifi locations and/or cell towers, Google will know where you are (SE Roundtable Oct 24 2008)

• How to Link to a YouTube Video So It Starts at a Specific Time

  Google Blogoscoped Oct 26 2008.

• The Future of Web 3.0 According to Yahoo!

  On the consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) (ReadWriteWeb Oct 18 2008)

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt to stump for Obama

  Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, an informal adviser to Barack Obama for several months, is joining the Democratic nominee on the campaign trail. (Mercury News Oct 20 2008)

• The Great Google Rebellion

  Users protest against the new sidebar in iGoogle (10 Zen Monkeys Oct 19 2008)

• Listen to Music Online with Last.fm

  Last.fm taps the wisdom of the crowds, leveraging each user’s musical profile to make personalised recommendations (About.com Oct 20 2008)

• U Rank: Another Microsoft Search Innovation

  Microsoft studies how people edit and share searches (Beyond Search Oct 24 2008)

• Industry Experts Contribute to Network’s Blog

  Looksmart’s Thought Leadership Series, a blog featuring industry visionaries such as John Battelle, Danny Sullivan, Charles Knight and Anita Campbell. (AltSearchEngines Oct 24 2008)

• Soovle – Let the web help.

  Start typing and you begin to pull up a bunch of suggestions from each engine which you can click on to search. (Phil Bradley Oct 24 2008)

• Exalead: Making Headway in the US

  Exalead, based in Paris, has been increasing its enterprise search footprint in the US. (Beyond Search Oct 25 2008)

• Google extends quotes search option

  Google increases the quotes coverage to 5 years (P Bradley Oct 25 2008)

• Baidu’s Profit Increases 91% in Third Quarter 2008

  The Chinese search engine had been seeing explosive growth leading up to the Beijing Olympics (SE Watch Oct 23 2008)

• Russia halts Google’s purchase of ad service

  Google said in July that it would spend $140 million to buy the ad service, ZAO Begun (AP Oct 23 2008)

• Gmail With Smileys

  Gmail now has emoticon images (Google Blogoscoped Oct 24 2008)

• Google’s Newest Plane Is a Fighter Jet

  Brin and Page buys a Dornier Alpha Jet (NBC Oct 25 2008)

• 24 hours with a G1 Google Phone

  Gmail, calendar and contacts integration changed my mobile life (Loïc Le Meur blog Oct 25 2008)

• Apple, Google oppose gay marriage ban, while Yahoo stays silent

  Google and Apple express opposition to Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative which would ban same-sex marriages (Valleywag Oct 24 2008)