PUBLIC MARKS from adfunk with tags yahoo & google

Tagging, the emblematic activity of the “Web 2.0″ and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes. Among U.S. Internet users, 28 percent have tagged online content like blog entries, photos, Web sites, video clips, and news articles, The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports in a study released Wednesday. On any particular day, 7 percent of users engage in this activity to categorize and label material they upload or find on the Web. Justen Deal, a manager in Los Angeles who tags news articles on sites like Slashdot, believes that as the use of tagging increases, it will give blogging and the Web in general a significant boost by making content easier to organize and discover.

Every few months we update the PageRank data that we show in the toolbar, and every few months I see a few repeated questions, so let me take a pass at some of them. Note: I wrote this kinda quickly, so I think this is pretty good, but if I spot something incorrect later, I’ll change it.

Carcasherdotcom Seocontest launched an seo contest, there is $1000 rewards to the one that will outrank Carcasherdotcom, using the keyword ‘Carcasherdotcom Seocontest’ on google, yahoo and msn. Most SEO Contests will adhere to a few basic rules to try and level the playing field for all contestants; an obligated link back to the organizing website that is required in the Carcasherdotcom Seocontest for instance, while the ‘Redscowl Bluesingsky’ SEO competition that took place in the spring of 2006 only allowed the entry of newly registered domains.

The Strength List in this article of “Find Out What The Strongest Directories Are” can be used as a guide to optimize your web site for search engines. You can visit and analyze The Strength List, along with others that cover paid and free directories, for use in your own projects. However, it will definitely pay you to engage a basic submission

As business increasingly shifts to the Web, several important questions get raised about the directions of our economy and our culture. Are hits still important? What can companies expect when they move online? Should they expand their inventories as they do so? Judging from data I gathered in the course of writing last week’s column about the new

An Arkansas judge Thursday approved a $90 million settlement between Google Inc. and advertisers who claimed the Internet search engine company improperly billed them for “clicks” that didn’t lead to genuine customers seeking their products. Miller County Circuit Judge Joe Griffin called the settlement “fair, reasonable and adequate”