Here's an updated Google Custom Search Engine for Faves.com. It will search URL Details, Buzz, Latest, and Best Pages (and also let you search for just one of those categories).

I think we should use these search results page for Faves/Everyone search.

a) Better Search Results
b) Better Ad Targeting

Users can add your "subscribed" link to integrate with Google search results. These can also be placed directly in Google Customized Search pages (so users don't have to individually subscribe - they just get the functionality directly from the custom search result page).

Google Custom Search Engine lets you create a customized search to include a collection of websites (including patterns) of your choosing.

I think you can also ad your own AdSense advertising blocks in your search results AND host the search box and results in your own web pages.

SEO Diva (and builder of Google Webmaster) - Vanessa Fox is hosting the Faves widget on her blog. Awesome!

Quoted: what, you were expecting pictures?

Google wants all paid links to have rel="nofollow" so that the link does not affect their rankings.

This seems a rather narrow view of the web. Think about all the reasons that someone would be motivated to link to another site. Are all of those motivations "pure"? Who's to say that a paid link is any less validating of quality than an un-paid link (at least for a paid link, someone has been willing to make an investment to ensure that people would learn about their site).

What if I post a link to a friend's site, or a family member's site. Should I have to disclose my "conflict of interest"?

This would be humorous if Google weren't so powerful. If Google doesn't think your site is "worthy" - then you are not going to get any traffic since they are far and away the largest search engine.

Google even has a tattle-tale page for people to rat-out what they expect are paid links on another user's web site!

External links to faves.com as reported by Yahoo's Site Explorer. Google still in not showing the inbound links.

I think Blue Dot may have been hurt by this latest PageRank adjustment. I looks like our PageRanks have gone down 2 points in some cases.

/Front - PR4 (was PR6, I think)
/Buzz/Video - PR4 (was PR6)
/users/mohit - PR3 (was PR5)

I would expect to see a big decline in our search traffic based on this change. It's not really detectable yet; though traffic volume yesterday was down 7% from one week ago.

Quoted: A major Google page rank update has punished large scale blog link farms and similar sites indulging in heavy cross linking by dramatically ...

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This was an awesome SEO presentation I went to last week. Recommended for anyone who cares how much search engine traffic their web site gets.

Slides:
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2007/09/26/diy-web-marketing-16-resources-for-seo-social-media-marketing-viral-marketing/

Quoted: A presentation on optimizing your web site for search engine rankings. Covers basics of SEO, ranking factors, keyword research, spiderabilit.... Sep 27, 2007.

Wikia (Jimmy Wales) is announcing a social-relevance search engine.

... I think he's wrong about this ...

Quoted: "If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers," said Wales, chairman of San Mateo, California-based Wikia. "I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a likely outcome."