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It’s quite rare that Google makes a post in its UK “Press Centre,” and today, the company once again failed to write something.  I’m especially disappointed, however, because an announcement about a cricket OneBox seemed so well-suited to the site.

The official U.S. Major League Soccer Web site, mlsnet.com had over one million unique visitors in July 2007 according to comScore.

An ad that suffers from a low quality score doesn’t do anyone much good, so speakers at SES San Jose 2007 addressed the matter in a session titled “Ads In A Quality Score World.”

The world was relatively quiet last week when Local.com announced it had been awarded a patent on local search. Not so today, as another patent is revealed for an ad-supported 411 local search model. As of right now, 2:30 EDT, shares of Local.com are up 62 percent.

A controversial piece of the SEM puzzle considers whether or not a marketer's advertisement suits the quality requirements of the search engines. A session at SES New York brought out the opinions from reps of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft about ads and quality scores.

Ever since Google first announced that it would implement quality score into its methodology for calculating bid prices for keywords, an air of mystery has surrounded the process and has left many participants in the search company’s AdSense network scratching their collective heads in frustration.

I told you Jeff Sandquist is smart and is one guy I could rely on at Microsoft to get shit done (he was my boss when I was at Microsoft).

Both Google and Yahoo plan to place more emphasis on quality scores when ranking sites, and that topic quickly dominated the Search Algorithm Research session at SES 2006.