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Tech companies are getting together to crate an open, royalty-free standard for presenting accelerated 3-D graphics online. Included in the consortium are Google, Adobe, Intel, Apple, and others.

The whole real-time search discussion has been heavily focused on Twitter, and that is certainly a huge part of it, but while it has certainly been touched upon, Facebook has not received as much attention in this area. Facebook is a huge part of the equation. It's much larger than Twitter (at least at this point in time), and the social network's recent shift to Twitter-like real time updates only highlights the subject even more.

Have you ever checked out Google's Insights for Search? Basically it's a set of tools launched last summer that let you look at trends in search to help you apply them to your own marketing campaigns. "See what the world is search for," as the product's slogan goes.

A new player in the online video game is emerging in Sling.com. Well the service is new, not really the player. Owners Sling Media have been around for a while, focusing primarily on hardware, but that is all about to change, starting with Sling.com, which has just begun beta testing to select users.

Despite millions of visitors to video sharing site YouTube, Google hasn't managed to find a key that unlocks the magic box of revenue for the site.

The American Corn Growers Association asked John Conyers and Patrick Leahy to look closely at any potential search advertising tie-in with the top two search providers.

Wouldn't it be useful if your SEM company could accurately predict how much organic search traffic they could get your organization?

Each web page can be optimized for conversion or linkability, but few pages are well optimized for both. That is part of why search as a business model works so well. The signals of quality that search engines look for are typically associated with information, not pages that convert well, thus those who have overtly conversion oriented sites and pages have to buy advertising.