Nice bit of product placement on The Simpsons by Google. I wonder if they had to pay to get a mention like that? (via)

A List Apart has released “The Web Design survey 2007” for all web designers to take part and gather interesting information about out profession.
“Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, [...]

Yahoo and Paypal have just announced that on Yahoo sponsored search results, a blue shopping cart icon will be displayed next to sites that accept Paypal payments. Very similar to Google results that display an icon for their Checkout service. (via)
The main difference between Google Checkout and Paypal is that Google will hold all of [...]

Search engine land posted an article with a link to E-Consultancy’s paid search briefing for March 2007.
You can download the 12 page document by registering (for free) on their website (2nd link above).
This is an interesting read into the trends of the UK paid search market. Here is a list of whats covered:

Introduction
Organisations in attendance
Market [...]

Google has a habit of testing small changes across it’s   to see how they will be received by users. It seems they have been testing a new layout of their search homepage.
I think it’s about time they “jazzed” up this page because its not changed virtually since their launch. See the link above for [...]

I’ve noticed today that both Adsense and Analytics from Google are down (time of writing 15:45 GMT).
I first noticed this because Adsense was not showing on one of my websiites. I then noticed errors in the Firefox Firebug console on most websites I visited. Further digging found that it seemed to be the Analytics service [...]

It was reported on ProBlogger today that you may now place other contextual adverts on the same page as your Google Adsense ads. This is a welcome policy change in my view.
It’s all about giving the visitor the choice and if another ad system displays more relevant adverts, then it’s going get the clicks.
Remember though, [...]

It was reported in December last year that Google would be changing their policy on Adsense ads having images next to them. But another policy change has come about that will upset many webmasters.
The change is made to the Competitive Ads & Services section of their policy. Now, if you run any other ad that [...]

Last year, the W3C announced that they will be setting up a new working group to “reinvent HTML”. (via 456 Berea St)
Chris Wilson from Microsoft has been put forward to lead the group and when you think about it, this could be a good or bad choice depending on how you look at it.
On one [...]

It has been reported recently that email traffic volume is set to double within the next few months if the recent growth rate in spam messages continues, according to a warning issued recently by email management specialist Email Systems.
Email Systems said the rate of growth in spam messages surged midway through 2006, leading to a [...]