CNN Money
Looking for an example of online store best practices? Apple.com sounds like a great model.

John Battelle’s Search Blog
Battelle’s crystal ball is fairly accurate, but you should be aware that he doesn’t actually state that Google has peaked, but is mearly wondering if that might be the case.

Search Engine Guide
Jennifer has some solid, common sense advice on the problems with reciprocal linking strategies. I have to say, however, that I find the Google Adsense advertisement for recip linking software on this page quite entertaining.

CoolTechZone has a comprehensive list of Google acquisitions.

eWeek
Now, that’s a quick response by Microsoft.

Google engineer and prolific blogger Matt Cutts has been creating a series on SEO mistakes. Here are some of his recent entries:

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Spam email guarantees

Believing all emails

Software mistakes

SearchViews: Cyber Monday Bubble Bursts
E-Commerce Times: Cyber Monday Lives Up to Billing
MarketingVOX: Akamai: Cyber Monday Traffic Spikes 35 Percent
CNet: Cyber Monday exceeds last year’s holiday sales peak
BusinessWeek: Cyber Monday, Marketing Myth
Red Herring: Cyber Monday Traffic Jumps

CRM Buyer
Interesting analysis suggesting that Google plans to enter the CRM business. Not sure I agree with the Friendster acquisition direction, unless Google’s initial interest is a PIM rather than CRM (think a replacement for the contact manager in Outlook). If the interest is a B2B CRM application, LinkedIn might be a much better purchase.

i, cringley
Cringley further explains the portable data centers he informed us of last week.

Seems that the demand for Google Analytics has been higher than expected. I received the following over the weekend:

Hello Google Analytics User,
This is a quick update to address some issues you may be seeing
in your Google Analytics account and what we’re doing to respond.
First, due to extremely high demand, we’ve temporarily limited the number of [...]