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Stories Discussed In The Show

• Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google
  More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links. However, Google's generally never penalized sites for link selling. If spotted, in most cases all Google would do is prevent links from a site or pages in...
• The Big Paid Link Debate Roundup
  Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank or Rankings on Google from Danny on Sunday has driven a lot of discussion around the blogosphere and SEO industry. I have complied a list of some of the sites that have added additional commentary to Danny's post. I am sure I...
• Jaiku Bought By Google
  Google has bought Jaiku, a Twitter-like service for quick or short blogging. We’re joining Google from the Jaiku team shows their excitement for the news. Because Google acquisitions usually lead to a mad rush of user sign-ups, Jaiku has decided to limit the number of new users who can sign...
• Report: Yahoo to Purchase 10 Percent or $100M of Alibaba IPO
  According to various reports, Yahoo is going to buy either a 10 percent stake or $100 million worth of the forthcoming public offering of B2B site Alibaba.com on the Hong Kong exchange. The company already owns a significant minority stake (39 percent) of Alibaba Group, the parent of Alibaba.com. It...
• Google AdSense For Video Goes Mainstream
  AdSense For Video, the closed pilot program that Google launched back in May, has now been made into a regular program that any publisher can take part in. Introducing video units from Google's Inside AdSense blog has more about the program, which allows publishers to carry video from YouTube and...
• Blinkx Offers Video Ad Widget, Does Partnership With Social Search Engine Eurekster
  On the heels of yesterday's Google AdSense video announcement, video search engine Blinkx has announced advertising for video using its "AdHoc" contextual ad platform. The difference is that the AdHoc contextual ad widget works with other video players embedded in third-party sites....
• Google Earth and 3D Warehouse Opened Up to 'Game Developers'
  On the cusp of the Virtual World Conference, starting today in California, a company called Multiverse Nework has announced a partnership with Google that opens up Google's 3D Warehouse -- terrain and metadata from Google Earth -- to third party use. According to CNet, Multiverse Nework offers a platform for...
• Ask Goes For More TV Product Placement
  Ask has been trying a range of strategies to gain more consumer attention and usage: the bold Ask 3D redesign, the questionable "algorithm" campaign, and now more TV product placement. AdAdge writes about Ask's recent TV show integrations, including a new one with Entertainment Tonight: Previous integrations with reality competition...
• Will Google Renew Ad Deal with Ask.com?
  Ask.com Ad Pact With Google Ends Soon from CNNMoney.com covers how the deal for Ask.com to carry Google's paid listings expires at the end of this year and suggests Ask.com has more to lose than Google by not renewing it. Let's break down some of those numbers from the story:...
• SMX Events In Argentina & Chile Later This Month
  The Search Marketing Expo conference series bows in Latin American with events later this month in Argentina and Chile. SMX Buenos Aires will be held October 24. The event features keynote presentations from Google, Yahoo's Ricardo Baeza-Yates on webspam and search, and a presentation on preventing click fraud from Dr....
• SMX Social Media Preview: Keynote Q&A With StumbleUpon & Delicious Founders
  At our SMX Social Media show next week -- Search Engine Land's first Search Marketing Expo show focused on social media marketing -- we have a special keynote Q&A session with the founders of delicious and StumbleUpon, Joshua Schachter and Garrett Camp respectively. I'm looking for your help with the...
• Last Chance! SMX Social Media in NYC Next Week – Register Today!
  SMX Social Media is in one week! Register today to reserve your spot. There are still tickets left for this Tuesday and Wednesday event, October 16-17, in New York City. SMX Social Media = tips, techniques, and best practices shared by the pioneers of social media marketing. Get the know-how...
• Yahoo's Paid Shortcuts Now Labeled As Sponsored
  Back in July, our Yahoo Shortcuts For Sale? article covered how Yahoo was selling some of its Yahoo Shortcuts units without -- to us -- enough disclosure. Looks like Yahoo's seen the light and now is using a "Yahoo Sponsored Shortcuts" label on these. Scott Hendison spotted the change here....
• Google Transit Now in Google Maps
  Google Operating System reports Google Transit data can now be found in Google Maps for select cities. If you plot driving directions between Norwalk, California and Orange County, California, you should see an option on the left for "Directions: Drive There - Take Public Transit." Clicking on "Take Public Transit"...
• Google Book Search Improved(?)
  According to the Google blog "Inside Google Book Search", some changes have been made recently to Google Book Search, so I took this as my cue to go and visit to check these out. To say that I was disappointed is to put it mildly, and if you don't have...
• Court Reinstates Google Age Discrimination Suit
  Court reinstates age-discrimination lawsuit against Google from ComputerWorld reports that an age discrimination case against Google that was dismissed two years ago will now go back to court. Brian Reid, an ex-AltaVista employee who went over to work at Google, was fired at age 54 and filed suit over the...
• GPhone Likely a Mobile OS to Compete With Windows Mobile
  Earlier this year, Google's Marissa Mayer argued that Google wasn't coming out with a piece of mobile hardware, as she explained that the iPhone has dramatically boosted use of Google Maps and other mobile services. Yet there have also been articles quoting people who say they've seen a "GPhone." Miguel...
• Google Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart, IBM
  Today Google stock crossed the $600 threshold, bringing the company's market capitalization to $190 billion and change and making the company officially more valuable than FedEx, McDonalds, Coke, Intel, IBM, and Wal-Mart, among others. Microsoft is worth more at $279 billion and Exxon Mobil is worth still more than $502...