The 30 Must-Read Search News Links (of the past 3 days)
My uncle died a week ago - I was in Louisville, Kentucky for his funeral this weekend and did not expect it to affect me as much as it did. The service was amazing - my cousins told the family what their father meant to them and I felt closer to him than I ever felt while he was alive. Then I got so wasted I had to spend the night in the bathtub. It was some weekend...

I feel scrubbed clean. Once I get the puke off my shoes I actually will be ;)

Now I'm back late to the office (after an unexpected night in Atlanta - thanks Delta!) and wondering how to manage these 30 search news posts... so what I'm going to do is group them and let y'all dig for the whole story on the stuff that interests you.

Baidu's doing well:
Baidu.com Shares Surge in Second Day of US Trading (Update3)
Baidu.com Listing Overshadows Google's Historic Float


CNet getting no love from Google:
Google Spanks CNet for Being Naughty
CNET: We've been blackballed by Google
Please shut up about Google and CNet
Blogging Googlers Battle on the PR War's Front Lines


Yahoo's snagged IBM search talent, IBM touts new search concepts:
Prabhakar Raghavan - Yahoo! Search Master
Yahoo's new search master
IBM (who just lost Raghavan): Concepts, not Keywords, Are Key to Search


Google getting no love from Letterman:
Letterman Slams Google

Or Howard Stern:
Howard Stern Sues Google over Interpretation of Daily AdWords Limits


Go NATHAN!!:
FyberSearch Launch Pay Per Month Ad Model


PPCall emerging further:
Verizon's SuperPages Launch Pay Per Call System


Interesting TW sighting:
Google Limiting Inurl Queries


Quigo introduces newspapers to the bidding system:
Quigo Debuts Private-Label PPC Platform for Newspapers

What Quigo/newspapers REALLY need to do is to integrate MAPS into their local search. Who better to sell paid map search listings than the newspapers (and yellowpages) -- they have all the preexisting relationships with small business owners:
Map Sites a Good Place to Find Searchers
Mapping the Map Sites


Online adspend still going up:
Online Adspend to Reach $18.9B, Search to Top Display


Yahoo Ad Measurement changing:
Yahoo Releases New Ad Measurement Platform


Ask Jeeves rocking out at SES:
Ask Jeeves to Rock SES with The Dan Band
Let's Get SES Started Right


KnowledgeStorm gets busy:
KnowledgeStorm to Launch Vertical Search


Noteworthy:
Guide to Search Spamming being Published
Reinclusion Guide for Search Baddies
Guest Bloggers: those Freakonomics Guys
Google Total
Jensense Interview with Jason Calacanis
Aaron Wall Talks to Nick Wilson of Threadwatch
5 Questions with Blake Rhodes, CEO of IceRocket
Holidays Can Make or Break Web Retailers
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