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We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google’s commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our new colleagues at Google we are creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing.

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It has been reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool no longer takes you to the tool, instead it redirects you to the Yahoo Search Marketing landing page. A few bloggers emailed Yahoo for a statement, and they have confirmed that they have decommissioned the tool.

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Yahoo will be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days, but expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.

Article Link:www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000596.html

Two years ago, we launched Google Trends, a tool that lets anyone see what the world is searching for, and compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Last year, we added Hot Trends, which shows what people are searching for right now - the fastest rising search queries on Google, updated every hour. And just last week, we introduced normalized search volume numbers available for export in Google Trends.

Today, we add a new layer to Trends with Google Trends for Websites, a fun tool that gives you a view of how popular your favorite websites are, including your own! It also compares and ranks site visitation across geographies, and related websites and searches.

Article Link:googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-layer-to-google-trends.html

The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services.

Plazes (http://www.plazes.com/) provides location-aware services that people can use to plan, record, and share their social activities.

Nokia did not disclose the value of the deal.

“This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy,” Niklas Savander, the head of Nokia’s Internet services, said in a statement.

Article Link:www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-nokia-location.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Transcendigital Ltd recently was one of many sites included in “Most Inspired Sites”. A blog featuring some of the most inspiring and trendy sites. In addition to being recognized on Most Inspired, Transcendigital was also featured on the “Daily Slurp”. This site is dedicated to exploring new techniques and technologies.

Links to pages featuring Transcendigital:

www.dailyslurp.com

www.mostinspired.com/sites

Less than one day after its launch, Firefox 3 has a vulnerability.

According to Tipping Point’s Zero Day Initiative, the vulnerability, which it rates as critical, was reported within the first five hours of Firefox 3’s release.

“Once the vulnerability was verified in TippingPoint’s DVLabs and acquired from the researcher, the vulnerability was promptly reported to the Mozilla security team,” said a representative.

More on this here:dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/06/18/vulnerability-in-mozilla-firefox-30

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YouTube has added long form videos/movies, in the form of deals with indie filmmakers, and launched its YouTube Screening Room. “While the majority of these films have played at international film festivals, occasionally you’ll find films that have never before screened for wide audiences,” the company said. Four shorts to be released every two weeks, with feature-length projects to be considered on a case-by-case basis, reports NTV. The company is courting indie filmakers this week at the Los Angeles Film Festival. More details in release here.

AP: Filmmakers can choose to have a “Buy Now” button attached to their work for sales of DVDs or digital copies. They will also collect a majority share of ad revenue generated from views of their work.

Article Continues here:www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061901607.html

While Microsoft closed its book search service to focus on search with “high consumer intent,” Google’s gone the opposite way and expanded its book search service in one of the most consumer-driven search verticals, product search.

Google Operating System reports that Google has integrated Google Book Search directly into Google Product Search.

More on this here:searchengineland.com/080618-081028.php

Additional Information:googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/06/froogle-integrates-with-google-book.html

Web communications leader Skype begins public testing on Wednesday of a new version of its software for making free or low-cost phone calls that aims to make casual video chatting more common.

The Luxembourg-based unit of online auction leader eBay (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said that public testing of Skype version 4.0 would begin making video a more integral part of the service.

The 4.0 test version invites users to post bigger photos of themselves, instead of just thumbnail images, to encourage callers to see and be seen.

It also incorporates features for non-technical users that detect computer settings, available bandwidth and connected audio or video devices to make getting started easier.

Article Link:uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN1737702920080617