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About two years behind Google, Microsoft has finally decided to start marking malicious sites in the search results for Live Search. Better late than never though, I suppose.

Last night Twitter launched an Election site that features Tweets involving the presidential and vice presidential candidates rolling in almost faster than you can read them. In Twitter's words, "We’re filtering hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the presidential election and a new way for you to share your thoughts."

A search engine company might be expected to stress the importance of ad placement - "stay on top," it would urge, with the related message "pay us lots of money" remaining unsaid.  But Yahoo's taking a more honest route and pointing out that it isn't always necessary to own the number one spot.

“Knol” stands for a unit of knowledge, according to the Official Google Blog.Here are some highlights on Google’s new project: The challenge posed to us was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.

The Blogging for Business Conference was held 22 October 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Autumn edition of Search Marketing Standard came out last week. I find this magazine great as it features many articles of a high quality, plus it's nice to read about SEO offline for a change, so I've listed some of the things I found of particular interest from the latest edition:

Historically, in the brick-and-mortar world, we've had courts to settle disputes. Online, there are terms of service agreements and invisible judges determining, usually at the behest of the loudest and largest mob, who is guilty of crossing the line between conscious protest and hate speech.

As I have just mentioned, this is a follow up weblog post from the previous one I have shared regarding some of the highlights from IBM's 2007 Technical Leadership Exchange event held in Paris last week.