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• Goodbye Google Answers
  Wow. Google is shutting down its Google Answers service. The company has announced that new questions won't be accepted after the New Year, though the site will continue to let people view the question archives. Killing off the service, which never seemed to catch on much, certainly will help Google seem like it is focusing efforts toward more needed areas. But it still feels like an odd, almost surrendering move in the face of Yahoo Answers being such a success....
• Google Audio Ads Sign-Up Page Live
  Google Audio Ads now appears to be opening to sign-ups, sort of. Googlaxy.com sent me a heads-up about three new URLS that are (somewhat) active:...
• Jim Cramer Sees Good In Google Buying YouTube, AussieWebmaster
• IAC To Launch AskCity; Local Info Services Site
  Reuters reports that IAC and Ask.com are launching a new local information services site named AskCity on December 4th. The site will combine IAC's portfolio of Ask.com, CitySearch, Evite and TicketMaster by providing information and services such as Web search, city guides, maps and event listings....
• Google, Michigan Protesters Lobby For 'Net Neutrality', MediaPost
• Microsoft bCenteral Closes To New Registrations, Search Engine Roundtable
• Alexa Ain't So Bad, Says Site Search Comparison
  Alexa has come under plenty of fire recently as not being accurate (old hands have known better for years), as more and more people are using it to "prove" how hot their sites are. Sean Ryan at SLI Systems says lay off the Alexa bashing! SLI provides search services for a variety of web sites. Sean plotted the amount of searches he sees against the relative Alexa traffic rankings of some sites and found there was a correspondence. If you were a high traffic Alexa site, you also had a lot of site searches. Interesting, but I'm afraid it won't...
• Yahoo Awarded Alerts Patent, SEO by the SEA
• Yahoo digs deeper into Nokia, and its phones, MarketWatch
• Why Would You Display Your Text Link Ad Inventory?, SEOmoz
• SearchCap Newsletter Begins Friday & Search Month Open For Signups, Search Engine Land
• Add Real-time Link Counts to your blog posts, David Sifry/Technorati
• Getting more backward links than Google, Pronet Advertising
• Podcast: Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis, Net Income
• Neil & Cameron - Emerging SEO Celebrities, SEOmoz
• Unhappy mobile reader? Try Mini Techmeme, Techmeme
• Google's Big Idea Challenge, Google Blogoscoped
• 20 Real Facts About Matt Cutts – Google’s Spam Sheriff, 10e20
• Name That Search Marketer Game
  David Wallace at SearchRank.com has a game; SEO/SEM Trivia - How Well Do You Know It's Stars? Basically, he took pictures of well-known SEMs and SEOs and blacked out some features from the pictures. He then asked you to name the person in each picture. I know all but one, I won't say whom. I will give you a hint, I am not in any of those pictures, but I did take one of those pictures....
• A Superbowl Marriage Proposal?
  Joe Morin thinks he's got the next Million Dollar Home page mixed with romance going. To wit: someone named JP (to stay secret from his girlfriend) wants to make his wedding proposal in a TV commercial during next year's SuperBowl. Joe's hoping that somehow, search and interactive marketers can make it happen. Joe's post with details is here; the proposal site itself is here. Since the ads are all sold already, it's not a matter of raising money now but buzz to perhaps get JP linked up with an existing advertiser that might want to feature him. Good luck, JP...