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What Yahoo! calls a Weather Report others just call updates. Ranking changes and shuffling of your listings are in the forecast.
Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Update

Be careful what you post on MySpace. It will instantly be indexed by Google. I see a flood of get rich quick scheme on MySpace.

Official Google Blog: This week in search 2/21/10

Yahoo! is plunging headfirst into having Microsoft’s Bing take over their search services. Yahoo! ad programs and webmaster tools will be transisitioning to Microsoft’s services. Are we ready? Yup. This is no surprise. Yahoo! has been falling flat on their face for some time now.

Yahoo! Transition Center – Home

Google wants to also be your ISP. Yes, connect to the Internet using Google. Say hello to more ads and goodbye to privacy. Is this really a good idea? Is there really any privacy now?
Official Google Blog: Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network

Google is rolling out Buzz into your Gmail account. What is the buzz? It’s a social tool to share photos, videos, etc……yawn. Another social tool. I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems like a stripped down version of Wave.
Google Buzz

If you are still using IE6 and try to access GoogleDocs and other online Google services, you may discover that you can’t. Google is dropping IE6 support. If you are still using such an old browser, it should not be a total surprise that you’d have issues. Web designers are rejoicing.

Official Google Enterprise Blog: ​Modern browsers for modern applications

It appears that the Chinese government has tried to hack into Gmail accounts. Google already filters results shown on Google.cn in compliance with an agreement with China but apparently this was the last straw.
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China

Even Google will admit that there are more malware, virus and other bad site listed in their search results. It’s becoming more difficult to stop these inventive evil geniuses. Be careful what you click on is still very good advice.
Anyone seeing a huge increase in unflagged malware links?

It’s official, the Google page rank is updated…..for what it’s worth.
Twitter / Matt Cutts: Yes, Google updated our to …

Google is personalizing your search even when you aren’t logged in. Wondering why the person on the computer next to you gets different search results than you do? It’s because Google personalizes your search based on what you have search for before. They are now officially announcing that they are doing it even if you aren’t logged into your Google account. It appears they’ve been doing it randomly for some time. Now it’s official and on all the time…unless you turn it off each time you search.

If you are searching for your own web sites and they are always coming up in the top ten, they may not really be in the top. It may just be because Google has learned you like that type of site. Clear your cookies to see the raw results.

This has changed marketing approaches for some time now and those marketers who are on the ball have been emphasizing other metrics than raw ranking reports. Rankings matter less with this type of a system in place.
Official Google Blog: Personalized Search for everyone