Digital Micro Markets:
Donna Bogatin clearly isn’t a fan of Google Checkout. She does everything but call for the antitrust inquisition to begin immediately.
Frankly, the payments space could use a good shaking up. And Google Checkout looks like the way to do it!
Thank you to John Battelle’s Searchblog for the link.

Inside AdWords:
The AdWords team chimes in on the Google Checkout announcement.
For every dollar spent on AdWords, a merchant will receive $10 of processing for free. Many merchants will find that extremely attractive.

John Battelle’s Searchblog:
John argues that Google was wise not to purchase MySpace as this might “queer its AdSense business”. Google has certainly done plenty to spook its partners of late, but this is a step in the correct direction.

GoogleBlog:
Today, Google is announcing Google Checkout, the combination of a digital wallet for consumers and a payment processing system for online merchants. The fees charged to merchants are lower than those they will generally receive from credit card processors.
While there’s nothing actually new here (digital wallet solutions were around at least as early as the [...]

Spam Blocker Resouce:
So, this guy discovers someone using his wi-fi connection. A packet sniffer shows the guy is using the connection for blog spamming. He shuts the guy’s connection down so the spammer leaves, and he follows the spammer to his house.
Now, he wants suggestions of what do to with this information.
Certainly, nothing illegal should [...]

John Battelle’s Searchblog:
I can’t imagine that this is intentional, but a search in Google for amazon.com does not currently return any results.

I guess I’ll be nice and not reveal the name of the firm, but I just returned a voicemail from a gentleman named Paul at an SEO firm. He said that he had just been on my website and noticed that we were doing some paid search advertising.
According to Paul, it’s very difficult to generate [...]

John Battelle’s Searchblog:
Reports are that Google is testing a Cost Per Action network. The interest in this by Google has been rumored for some time, but there haven’t been many indications of actual testing (although Google Base looked to go this way for a while).
It’s very possible that Google sees CPA as a way to [...]

In the last few days, we’ve added a search engine marketing glossary to the Apogee Search site. We are planning to add substantially to it over the coming weeks, but there are already 176 terms defined.

SEO Egghead:
Jaimie Sirovich points out Google’s hypocracy in allowing The New York Times to actively engage in cloaking its content. While I certainly don’t see anything wrong in what the Gray Lady is doing, Google definitely needs to clarify its policies and let us know when it is ok to do such things.