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Though it is estimated 42 percent of voters use the Internet to find information about Presidential candidates, those voters are not being served as well as they could be.

In the United States and the United Kingdom, a couple of librarian-driven resources show just how potent informational sites with vetted content can be for Internet users. Resource Shelf's Gary Price tells us more.

It appears Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post has a little time on his hands. Perhaps a whole lot of time on his hands, as he has penned an article about his quest to enter search queries into Google and find no results whatsoever.

Business Week is reporting plans by many social networking sites to open up their network to content developers, in an effort to grow their user base. [Facebook], MySpace.com, LinkedIn, Friendster, and Google's orkut are expected toopen their code to third-party developers this year as well-promising to kick off a spurt of innovation in social networking.

When KeywordRanking was still in business, we used to get calls about once a month from disaffected clients asking how to get out of contracts and to see if they were getting value for the $2,000 being spent.

Given that many large brands and mainstream media sites are trying to leverage their brand strength by adding interactive content to their sites and every SEO blog in the world (and some from distant universes) have posts about leveraging social media and buidling trust with link baiting, it is probably a pretty safe bet to think that Google is going to be forced away from trusting core domain related trust...and it is going to have to get even better at filtering link quality as well.

Often lead generation programs seem more ready-fire-aim instead of ready-aim-fire. Mac McInTosh wrote a helpful article on, "Targeting Your B2B Lead Generation," that I think provides some good tips and reminders.

The skeptic has always been quick to remind that popularity is not necessarily a measure of value. In a report detailing the most influential authorities on blog marketing, Onalytica, a UK-based analytics firm, illustrates that popularity is not always in line with influence, either.