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The Washington Post pokes around a few MySpace and Facebook profiles of young school teachers and shares the apparently disturbing results.

Google will make landing page load times a factor in computing the quality score, which could have an impact on minimum bid prices.

Rich Skrenta recently mentioned an article about being within the confines of Google: So it strikes me that the time is right to make some big bets. You can't make those within the system. My advice: start from scratch, take some chances in finding marketing channels outside the Google system.

Google filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, in secret, several months ago; the complaint suggested that Vista’s desktop search function is too hard to turn off.  Now, as you might have noticed, the complaint has become public, and several interesting details relating to the matter have also come to light.

One week ago, MySpace announced plans to hold its own little Presidential primary, and we all “oohed” and “aahed” (or at least thoughtfully “hmmed”) on cue - it sounds like an interesting idea, right?  But new data implies that MySpace’s elections won’t in any way predict the real deal.

The SEM Industry is rapidly changing, this includes the search engines (their SERP algorithms and spiders), SEO Tactics, and SEM Strategies. Off the top of my head I have come up with 5 things that WILL NOT matter in SEM in the future and 5 things that marketers should stay on top of.

What happens when the operating system you use doesn't really matter any more?

What kind of financial return should a company expect when it globalizes its website? If it translates the e-commerce pages, will more people buy? Or is English enough for the still English-saturated web?