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Danny Sullivan (a.k.a. The Godfather to those of us in the SEO realm) messed up, kind of. In a post he OK's for the Search Engine Land a couple days ago titled, "Get A Free Link From Wired" they basically outline how to get yourself a free link on the wired.com site. I especially love the "don't be too evil" note which implies that some amount of evil is OK.

The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform.

Michael Callahan, an executive president and general council at Yahoo has apologized to lawmakers for offering faulty information about the company working with a Chinese government request for user information about a journalist who was later jailed.

A senior executive at CBS News Corporation has issued an apology to a viewer who complained via email about anchor Katie Couric's reporting from Iraq and was insulted in CBS's reply.

After being blistered by criticism over the abrupt termination of the Google Video program, Google has offered an apology and full credit to video purchasers.

Quite a line was forming up, but it appears there’s now one less organization in the world that wants to sue YouTube; since the video-sharing site decided to take down clips in which the king of Thailand was insulted, the Thai government has dropped its criminal lawsuit. Google Apologizes, Thailand Drops Lawsuit

Almost two months ago, Yahoo India was accused of redistributing a woman’s recipes without her permission.  Now the company is apologizing (in a corporate-speak kind of way).  Yahoo is also blaming the incident on another business.

What's the best way to assuage censorship concerns? Throw a temp under the bus. SixApart's apologies to Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus came swiftly after Pincus made a proper stink about attempted censorship.