By way of Search Engine Watch Moderator, OptimizeOnline, Google Launch Phase 2 of Longer Ad Text Beta Programme. Basically, Google AdWords will up the description character limit to 200 and then test the CTR rates of those ads versus the original ads. OptimizeOnline …
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=1992

As it was obvious, Google didn’t contemplate Yahoo launching their contextual ad network and already is making it’s move to consolidate the grounds

Notice anything different in your Yahoo News listings on Yahoo’s homepage, My Yahoo, and other pages within the Yahoo network where Yahoo News stories are listed? Yahoo is placing a little TV screen next to some news stories to showcase its News …
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=1986

This is quite a goody. Why watching only CNN when you can choose to watch multiple video versions of the same story. Add this to human moderated news (Google does that automatically) and you have a good contender to the role of news king

The Mozilla Foundation this week went “for profit” with the launch of a commercial subsidiary which will focus on the Firefox browser. The for profit version of Mozilla (Cashzilla?) will also be responsible for the development, testing, and distribution of the organization’s open …
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=1985

I just hope that this step will lead the way to Firefox branded browsers. Today I was looking too see if clones of Firefox exist and I was amazed to see that there are none. I mean what’s wrong in the picture? IE is not open source but clones like Maxthon and Avant Browser (to name just a few) are here for quite a long time. I expect (and also want) a Yahoo branded browser to give me quick access to the Yahoo services for example. And the ways to explore this are vitually unlimited

P.S. I am doing this kind of post as an experiment. If it works I will stick to it. The ideea is the following:
1. I have installed Blog Navigator and inserted my daily readings (more to be added soon) 2. From the daily posts I will make a selection of the most important (from my point of view) and try to add some personal comments