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• Talk Like A Pirate Day: Dogpile, Flickr, Roundtable, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Presentations Security Issue Leaked Email Addresses
  Nathan Weinberg reports that Google fixed a security issue with the new Google Presentations, which leaked user email addresses to the public. What happened was that when webmasters tried to embed presentations into their web pages, it would then log people into Google Talk via their Google Account. After they...
• Google: Got A "Bad" Site? Then All Your Landing Pages Might Be Poor Quality
  The Inside AdWords blog has provided more detail into what makes for a low landing page quality score. Google also said they will now not pre-announce all quality score algorithm changes prior to implementation. In fact, Google details which types of sites can cause all your landing pages to be...
• Weird Results At Google Being Reported
  AltaVista is now in the top search results for a Google search on SEO? And what's with all these Chinese pages suddenly showing up. Folks are noting that Google's results have suddenly seemed to have gotten funky....
• Live.com Gets New Home Page Ahead Of "Searchification" Next Week
  Next week, Microsoft takes a page from the Google Searchology Day book and is planning a special day of its own to talk about its search efforts. Called Searchification, Microsoft has invited a number of bloggers and journalists for the event next week, on September 26. But Microsoft apparently can't...
• Google Expands Google Gadget Ads For Advertisers Beta
  Google has announced they are expanding Gadget Ads Beta to AdWords advertisers worldwide. Before now, Gadget Ads was a very limited beta, but now, Google is expanding this program to more advertisers. Google Gadget Ads are interactive ads that contain rich media capabilities. Gadget Ads can contain data feeds, images,...
• Google Hires NY Ad Exec To Lead New 'Creative Lab Unit'
  Both the Wall Street Journal and AdAge are reporting this morning that Google has hired Ogilvy & Mather's Andy Berndt to run a new New York-based group it's calling the "Creative Lab Unit." The Wall Street Journal article says the unit "will look for more creative ways Google products can...
• The Pros And Cons Of Mobile Marketing
  Managing a mobile marketing campaign can be a challenge because there are many different entities contributing to a successful campaign. At minimum, we have the carriers, advertisers, and consumers. But in the background, we have third-party technology companies like Enpocket, ThirdScreen and Quattro; not to mention industry organizations like...
• YouTube Accounts For 1/3 Of All Google, InsideGoogle
• Podcast: SMX Local & Mobile Preview
  Want to understand more about all that's happening in the local and mobile search space? That's what our SMX Local & Mobile conference on Oct. 1 & 2 in Denver is all about! To give you a preview of what will be covered, Search Engine Land executive editor Chris...
• Google Uses Outdoor Billboards To Promote Goog411
  Photo by Mike Blumenthal. Used with permission. Mike Blumenthal took a picture of a billboard ad in upstate New York for Google's free directory assistance alternative, Goog411. This is interesting and amusing for a number of reasons....
• SEO Cartoon Quiz, The SEO Scoop