Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire
May It Please the Mozzers,
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding New York’s new law requiring online retailers to collect sales tax from their New York Customers if they engage affiliate marketers in that state.
The New York Times (original coverage and the Overstock fallout), the New York Post, Vastplanet, Cost [...]

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I thought this was kinda funny. Someone thought that Google was taking stronger action on excessive reciprocal links. So did they ramp down their reciprocal linking? Nope. Instead, they put their offer into an image thinking that Google wouldn’t notice:In case you can’t read images, it says “Google doesn’t like link exchanges anymore. Go Figure, [...]

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TechCrunch reports that Google has aided in the arrest of an Indian man who wrote in an Orkut community, “I hate Sonia Gandhi.” Sonia Gandhi is a politician in India. Google reportedly handed over IP information to the Indian government, to help the government track down and arrest this individual.
The man was charged [...]

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Over the past week, YouTube has announced the addition of several features. In a recent YouTube blog post, YouTube announced the addition of search suggestions on YouTube.com, the import of your Google contacts and a new and improved notification system for video comments. Plus, the Google Blog announced the addition of demographic statistics [...]

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We’re very happy to announce Search Engine Land en Español, which is being produced by ourSMX Madrid partnersOME. It has launched to coincide with the opening of the first SMX Madrid show tomorrow. On the site, you’ll find selected articles from Search Engine Land which have been translated into Spanish. Occasionally, we’ll pick up article [...]

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