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• editor's comments:- you wouldn't easily guess from looking at their web site that Google also offers hardware storage search appliances for all sizes of business.
  
  In November 2009 - Google opened its doors to developers who want to work with Chrome OS - a new operating system for web notebook products that will ship next year.
  
  In the opening video of the Chrome OS blog we learn that the architects of the new OS are "obsessed with speed". Therefore the new netbook OS is designed from the ground up to support only flash SSDs as the default mass storage. Google says - there is no room in this OS for outmoded 50 year old hard disk technology.

• Customers Search Differently - customers (who want to find suppliers and buy stuff) search differently to marketers (who want to promote their companies and sell stuff). That's why most search marketing misses the best targets.

• Search Engine Optimization - Google's own SEO article includes an amusing but serious warning. Apparently Google themselves receive spam emails offering to improve their search rank and saying - "you are not listed in major search engines and directories".

• Increasing Your Brand's Visibility by Search-engine Marketing - Many companies think their site is optimized because someone programmed 15 or so keyword phrases into the site's source code a while back. They are surprised to find that this approach is quite outdated.

• SEO Chicks - is an interesting collection of thoughts and articles related to search and web marketing topics. No mice here. No chickens either.

• What's a Good Click Rate for a Banner Ad? - what you learn from testing banner ads - often results in you having to change the way you talk about your company in other places... your web site, your PR. Leaving this important task in the hands of graphics designers is lunacy.