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Top search terms aren’t always of vital significance - Google Trends currently places “when was the first bottle of coca cola sold” at number six, for example.  But search terms can also relate to very important matters, and a focus on Burma reflects this reality.

If these products come to your local car dealerships, they’ll need to have a better name than “sustainable transportation solutions.”  But by issuing a $10 million request for proposals (RFP), Google intends to give the products an improved chance of making it that far.

All the latest televisions have embraced this format, and now YouTube (sort of) has, as well: video search results are being displayed in a widescreen ratio.  It’s not clear when this feature might make the jump to the videos themselves, however.

A number of people were suspicious when the Netflix Prize was announced. $1 million isn't much of a reward, some complained, and others believed that it would be difficult to improve upon the site's movie recommendation algorithm. Now, a little over one week into the contest, three teams have already beaten the existing system.

Systems that work well during development, deployed on a small scale, can fail to meet performance goals when the deployment is scaled up to support real levels of use.

For many years we have heard about the impending death of URLs that are difficult to type, remember and preserve.

When providing SEO/SEM services for clients (or doing it for yourself), do you target, or at least pay attention to the growing number of local search presences? If so, is this something you consider worthwhile and if not, would you ever consider doing so...?

Jon over at Smart Money Daily has a plan - it's a plan to make $1,000,000 gross income in a year from his online projects.