Adil writes: “”Hey Frank,Check this out.   Google has now restricted the clickable area on the Adsense Ad boxes for websites. Apparently you are no longer able to click anywhere on the Ad box. You must click on either the text or url of the ad in order to be taken to the destination of [...]

..Part time masseuse at Google becomes multi millionaire because of the stock options given to her.  1,000 Google employees have stock options worth 5 million or more. http://www.news.com/Google-options-make-masseuse-a-multimillionaire/2100-1030_3-6217998.html?tag=nefd.top    ***FS*** You and everybody else Sally.. I mean Bonnie..  Too many millionaires..  The “millionaire” is becomeing the new hundred-thousand-dollionaire.

 …And,  said customers are shocked to learn that many of their sales were coming from the names they wanted to block.. http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/adwords-content-exclusion-beta-a-first-look/ Sahar gets right to the point with his screencap showing Domain ads with low CTR’s, but very high conversions. http://www.conceptualist.com/?p=671

  Longshot? http://gigaom.com/2007/11/11/sprint-google/

http://domainnamewire.com/2007/11/09/google-slap-hits-developed-domains/ Josh says: “”Best not to rely on search engines for viewers.  Not saying you shouldn’t try and get good rankings, but don’t rely on it.  Rely on creating very compelling content and services.  And [buy] domains with targetted organic type in traffic, if you can afford them”” ***FS*** Absolutely correct bro.

 Google folks cashing out and moving on.  The thing is ..  it’s many of those folks that made Google so valuable in the first place.  As lots of the earliest and smartest move toward the exits, the company will be different. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/11/05/billionaires-google-options-tech-cx_wt_1106googlaires.html

http://blogs.mediapost.com/search_insider/?p=652 Mark Simon talks about serious concerns expressed by those who are paying for clicks… Google clicks.    Quote: “”Finally, there are the publishers [domainers]. Many report that even as their traffic and click-through rates have steadily increased in the past six months, their Adsense revenue has plateaued and even declined. You can’t exactly blame [...]

Can Google and Myspace catch Facebook? OpenSocial launched.  Set of common API’s for building social apps across the web. http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/myspace_opensocial.html ***FS*** This announcement seems reactionary to me..  What is Facebook doing that makes Google think they need to announce this, in this way?..  Perhaps just a coincidence and nothing to see here but something about this release [...]

http://www.whizzbangsblog.com:80/content/view/307/1/ Quote: “”Being able to count the sales conversions and estimate the value of sales for each market vertical allows Google to be able to manipulate the traffic so that the advertiser’s conversions are just above the quality floor mentioned in a previous article on Quality.”” ***FS***  Michael is talking about the two sided shave.  [...]

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807330-7.html Quote: “Google intends to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from renewable forms for its operations by 2012.” ***FS*** Perhaps there’s some truth to the quirky saying:  “One day we’ll take our Google to the Google to get some Google for our Google”