Keyword bids will become more expensive with Google’s search advertising deal with Yahoo, one search management firm contended.

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Daily Kos favorite Poblano, the moniker for blogger Nate Silver, spent a lot of time getting right what powerful polling organizations missed with the Democratic nomination process. You could say he hit a home run.
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The Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony for and against Google’s search advertising deal with Yahoo.

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Depicting the Democratic frontrunner as a flag-burning, Osama bin Laden devotee won The New Yorker few fans.

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Remember how Ach-moo-dent-in-jab told us there were no homosexuals in Iran? He could be right about that, considering anybody who reveals himself is hanged. Here’s another offense that carries the death penalty in Iran: blogging.

Well, blogging about the wrong things, anyway. This article in the Jerusulem Post is a little contradictory about which offenses carry the death penalty–in the first line you get it for insulting Islam or drug trafficking; later Kurds are killed for spying and separatist propadanda.

Nonetheless, a new law has been passed there to make sure the death penalty is extended to crimes committed online, presumably like insulting Islam via a blog or opening up an online head shop. Or just being gay online, one might suppose. Though the Internet is global, one assumes punishment is a local affair–if not, maybe Perez Hilton should be our next ambassador.

A deal with two in-game ad publishers allowed Yahoo to make some 400 games free for people to download and play.

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The collaboration between Yahoo’s search ad business and online traffic auditing firm Click Forensics added electronic reporting of pay per click issues from clients to Yahoo via a new Click Forensics’ feature.

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A time machine, not a deal with Yahoo, would be what Microsoft needs if it really wants to beat Google.

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But they won’t deal with the current board of directors at Yahoo to do so.

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