Search News Roundup: C’Mon Fella! Gently Coaxing this Week’s Search Engine and Social Media News Out of its Shell

Written By Noah Mallin | October 17, 2008 | No Comments

McCain Goony

We have been blissfully oblivious to other blogs’ coverage of the Presidential election and Search. Ours is best so why bother really? How do we know ours is best? We have avoided the Wrath of McCain. We know that his campaign only levels charges with the utmost of evidence so that’s us off the hook. Unless his minion is lumping us in with those other guys – which would be wrong.

In other news…

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Dogpile on the YouTube Clip!

In The Quest for YouTube Monetization Chapter XXXV we come to Google slathering layers of ad copy on top of poor old John McCain’s ads. Ads on top of ads. Nice. Can we all just call this as a bad idea and go home?

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So Uh, I Gotta Be in Court, are you Free Monday?

Turns out Google’s lawyers may be trolling around for potential witnesses in their upcoming antitrust case being brought by the Justice Department. GooHoo’s prospects they no look-ah so good right now.

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Fish Gotta Swim, Dogs Gotta Bite Dept.

So a lawyer and a blogger walk into a bar… Actually if anyone knows the punch line to that joke please leave it in the comments. An e-commerce site made the mistake of giving link love to legal giants Jones Day. The response? Why, a lawsuit of course! That’s the legal profession’s way of saying thanks.

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A Plumber’s Smile

Unlike the Joe the Plumber of debate fame who isn’t really a plumber and would actually get a tax cut under Obama’s tax plan, the guy who happens to own the “joe the plumber URL” stands to make a pretty penny if the inquiries into his domain name are any indication. His been offered amounts in the six figures for the website to which I say, “Sell baby, sell!”

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