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Google has dropped the “Shopping” link from the main top navigation on Google.com and replaced it with a “Video” link. What is the big deal? Well, in November 2007, Google did the exact reverse. They dropped the video link for products to replace it. Then Google renamed products to shopping but that link remained at the top.

The Google AdSense blog has added the font selection preference for publishers. Publishers can now pick between Arial, Times, and Verdana font types and they will be present on all of their Latin-based character units.

Publishers can pick the font style two different ways within the AdSense console.

Last night I discovered reports via WebmasterWorld that shows Google testing a flavor of Google SearchWiki directly on the paid ads, also known as AdWords results.

Google Operating System reports that Google is testing a slightly tweaked user interface for their search suggestions. Google made Google Suggest the default behavior for the main search box in August of last year. Since then, it has gone unchanged.

Despite the economic meltdown of the past several months, search still seems to be cruising along with barely a hiccup. To be honest, it’s a little surreal. For those of us in the industry, it seems like we’re in a protective bubble while the world falls down around us. To be sure, the impact has been felt, even in our search world. But all things are relative, and relative to every other marketing channel, search seems invincible.

The Product PlusBox has been a limited test since November 2007, but it seems like Google has expanded the test. I asked Google about this and they told me, it is still a limited beta, to test how effective this is as a way of engaging potential customers for advertisers.

People ask me all the time what plugins I would suggest and/or what plugins I use. I figured the easiest way to do that would just go into my Manage Plugins page and find out. This list is simply in alpahbetical order as listed on the page.

Much has been said about Twitter in my blog and in many blogs throughout the blogosphere. Twitter is a social media tool allowing people to stay connected virtually 24/7 by allowing you to update your status via tex message.

To get the most out of twitter and your blog you should install the Tweet This Wordpress Plugin once that plugin is installed you will see the tweet this post option become available in your blog posts. The plugin works for past, present, and future posts. You can see it in action here in this and every other post on my page.

Along with the definition of common SEO/SEM terms I am constantly being asked how to use Google Webmaster Tools. Well along with the Webmaster Tools, Google also offers the Website Optimizer; I figure why re-invinte the wheel so I found this Google produced video that explains the whole process.