New Google Advertising Patent
New Google Advertising Patent

Open Directory adds Affiliation Declaration Database
Editors of the ODP are invited to add their affiliations to the affiliation database to help minimize conflicts of interest.

Blog PR Tracker
It looks as though someone is marketing a blog monitoring system to be used as a PR system. Blabble is currently in beta testing.

Blog Topic Streamer
Waypath now offers blog tracking by topic stream.

Microsoft Answer Engine Research (Ask MSR/AnswerBot)
info from Gary.

Google "Search Harder" Button
Google creates a new button at the end of search results which provides a different set of search results. (beta test only seen by some)
regular Google search for cars
search harder Google search for cars
more info about the "search harder" button

Google Search Algorithm Change
Webby posts about a Google algorithm change he noticed on August 25th. Apparently Webby noticed this effect most on deep inner pages of large travel related sites which had extremely low link popularity into some of their less popupular travel destination pages.