MSN Search Beta:
MSN is beta testing MSN Search Beta on the MSN Search Site <-- some good Keyword density there...it kinda reminds me of a recent Yahoo! SEO see also discussion.

New .MP Domains:
SEO.MP <-- notice the cool pics in the right hand column. MP (mobile phone) domains cost $50 a year for non commercial sites and $300 per for commercial sites, which seems a bit steep (if you can't resist go buy one today)...although I hear Nick W may have one or two left, maybe? There are some funny comments in Nick's thread too.

WebmasterWorld:
More drama... WebGuerrilla posts on SES and Shak leaves the moderating team. WMW has lost many of its prominent community leaders recently.

Google:
CEO Schmidt just sold $20 million of stock
Google is on the cover of fortune
their CFO is scared of click fraud

The Ruling Class:
NFFC is the David Beckham of SEO?

Auctions Expert...
knows how to make bank from click fraud, says Google.

While We are Selling...
google founders selling stock

Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Perfect 10 is in a sea of distress,
unimpressed by Googles information access.
porn is free
porn for me
say hell yes :)

Google Scholar:
New Google Scholar Search. Andrew Goodman has an interesting post about Google Scholar.

Toolbar
for your site. free and customizable.

Deskbar:
Google Deskbar API

The Best SEO Secrets:
are kept secret...says Nick W

MSN + Overture:
Partner up for another year.

Link Building Info:
Andy Hagans has a new site offering link building tips.

Scoop:
A while ago a sketchy self proclaimed "white hat page generator" (www.metawebs.com) hit the market. I do not know a ton of programming, but Dan Thies, one of my well respected SEO friends sent me an email stating:

It took me about 15 minutes to write a Google API app with PHP to fish these out of the SERPs, using a very small list of seed terms (<20 words). I stopped it after a while, but it's like shooting fish in a barrel to find these "unfootprintable" pages. It will get even easier as these sites get indexed, because it increases the odds of a "hit" when searching for them.

There aren't many details behind the story or how exactly the debut will be different to the currently available MSN technology preview. Danny states limited details are available and gives a brief history of MSN search.

MSN Search Tech Preview
MSN Search Beta is back up now. ...more pages, clean interface, sometimes cluster two results / site together in results, still working on the technology...
(thanks to Gary)

Oooppps...
Andy Beal has more on the fake SEO forums (apparently he gets coppies of some of the messages the "moderators" are not posting)

Debatable
Presidential Bingo...fun way to watch the debates... but be aware the debates have problems. Also for as much money as the canidates are spending you would think they could market in AdWords? I know somebody who is marketing for one of them ;-)

MSN Sponsoring more than Chicago SES Conference?
Why is this third site resolving to the MSN IP address? They could not have thought that it would be good PR...

found in SEW forums

update: evidentally people are doing this to many other large companies too. just point your DNS details at their name servers. I still think its funny though.