Google, DoubleClick Address Privacy Issues
(Seeking Alpha)

“The problem is this: the described relationship between DoubleClick and Google effectively creates an online advertising monopoly.
….
In addition to the imposed monopoly, privacy groups are concerned that Google will simply have too much information on individuals; information that Google never really had permission to have in the first place. Google will literally have access to just about every demographic available about an individual.

Google has responded by announcing that all search-query data will be eliminated after 18-24 months.”

Will Google Be Destroyed By Open Source Search Engines? (InformationWeek)

“Could open source kill the golden egg that laid Google? If Wikia has their way, it just might.

The Wikia project, started by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, seeks to the turn the process of building a search engine from a multimillion dollar project to one that could cost just hundreds or thousands of bucks. That's a game changer.”

Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it
(PC World)

Readers of Google Custom Search Blog were surprised when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere.

Google to launch online music download store?
(Pocket-lint.co.uk, UK)

“As part of the Universal Music Group's announcement that it was to start trialling the sale of DRM-free music tracks, Universal named a list of companies that are to offer the downloads.

Within that list was Google. But Google doesn't sell music tracks, so why name the company as one of your online vendors?”

Scholars Push For Search Engine Regulation (WebProNews)

Here's an idea sure to start some fires: Is it necessary to consider government regulation of search engines?

Don't be arrogant (CNN Money)

Google is starting to act like your garden-variety monopoly, says Fortune's Brent Schlender.

“Seriously, when a company attains extreme market domination, hubris and a sense of infallibility can't be far behind.

It's only a matter of time before said market dominator tries to tell everyone else how to run their businesses.”

Helpful Guidelines To Increase Your Seo Visibility (Article Vista)

“Always webmasters should give more importance on search engine friendly content and keywords to get higher ranking in search engine result pages.

Unless a website proves its effectiveness, even the cleverest handling will have little effect on search engine rankings.”