You know how déjà vu is? I'm feeling that today, since it's been seven months since Google Knol was announced , and they're just now getting around to going live . And what we said at the first announcement still looks to be true: "Google Runs Out of Content to Monetize; Wants You to Build More." Despite obvious similarities, Google Knol will make no claims of aiming to kill Wikipedia . In case you've forgotten,

Following last week's lackluster financial performance from both Google and Microsoft , yesterday was Yahoo's turn to step up to the mic . The numbers: Net income of $131 million Revenue of $1.346 billion. Q2 earnings of 9 cents per share, with Wall Street expecting 10 cents The Analysts said: Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal said Yahoo's results will likely do little to either help or hinder its effort to remain independent'"It looks like a non-event,

Wow. I feel like Google really hears me. First, they make Gmail's contact system less invasive , and now they add walking directions to Google Maps ! I do a small dance of happiness! Now, I know there are those of you wondering why this even matters, what difference walking directions makes. Or, as one commenter put it : Walking directions? Whatever happened to just showing up, facing your body in the direction you wanted to go, and walking? Of course,

Oh my goodness, it's . . . you know. At OMMA Behavioral yesterday, Ignited's David Martin struck upon the perfect slogan for the behavioral advertising industry, and I quote: "It's Only Going To Get Creepier." Excellent. Government regulatory agencies, consumers and advertising clients alike flock to behavioral. Is it just me, or does the question " Are Google Maps good or evil? " seem kind of . . . stupid? There were maps before, people.

Another day, another dollar edition of Pilgrim's Picks. Could changes at The Patent and Trademark Office nullify Google's patents ? The New York Times have announced a content syndication deal with LinkedIn. Apparently Propeller , AOL's social news site, doesn't want to copy Digg's system anymore. Instead, they've announced a new algorithm that will calculate the most popular items. Wordpress comes to the iPhone ? w00t!

It seems that Robert Scoble is a true "disrupter" of technology. This time, his blog is causing Google's Sitelinks a little bit of a headache. Pilgrim's Update: Learn online reputation management skills directly from Andy Beal. Attend the Online Reputation Management Workshop and save $400 when you register today!

Small businesses in the US are struggling right now. Any edge or any hope that can be found is a welcome change from the continued onslaught of economic news around rising prices and shrinking wallets. I found one such story this morning over my cup of coffee. Oh and it was kinda cool that it was about coffee. I need that kind of early morning validation that my coffee drinking is still "in vogue". Anyway, in the Wall Street Journal this morning )I know,

Sign in on the subdomain www.new.facebook.com and you're greeted "Welcome to the new Facebook." And indeed it is. Facebook is unveiling a new redesign, and the long-tested tabbed profile pages aren't the only changes. If you don't feel like signing in yourself, here's a screenshot and explanation. Home: Very obviously, the layout of the Facebook site is changing. As promised, the left navigation is gone, moved up into the top nav.

Happy anniversary to me! To help you celebrate, I've collected awesome links, of course. Janet 's not the only one appreciating the usefulness of the Google Content Network: How To Use The Google Content Network To Invest In Domains And more news on Google's tools: Matt Cutts clarifies that the toolbar doesn't index or queue sites for indexing and other myths. And one last bit of Google news: American Airlines And Google Settle Keyword Lawsuit Um,

Google AdWords advertisers that run content-targeted ads are going to have a easier time managing their campaigns. Until now the content and keyword ads were managed separately. A new feature combines both keyword-targeted ads and placement-targeted ads into one campaign and both will show ads based on keywords.

Most of the online reputation repair clients I work with are remorseful. At some point in their lives they've screwed up and now Google won't let them, or anyone else for that matter, forget the incident. Despite the isolated incident, and many subsequent years of good behavior, their past reputation slip has left a nasty scar on an otherwise clean history. Then, there are people like Joshua Lipton . Lipton was charged with drunken driving after crashing into,

Here's an interesting twist in the Yahoo/Microsoft/Icahn love triangle-Carl Icahn and Yahoo have just kissed and made-up. Under a newly announced settlement , Carl Icahn and two of his cohorts will be elected to Yahoo's board of directors. Following the 2008 annual meeting, the Yahoo! Board will be expanded to 11 members.

Yahoo's letter to shareholders yesterday was just the first step in their latest defense against Carl Icahn's attempts to elect a proxy board at the shareholder meeting in two weeks. Today, Yahoo and its allies strike two more blows. First, Yahoo has begun leveraging one of its biggest assestsone of )if not the ( most popular home pages on the Internet. Yahoo has put a notice about the pending board election below the fold. TechCrunch spotted this earlier today,

In case you haven't noticed, it's Friday. Woot. German Google Webmaster Central blog has a fun interview with Matt Cutts on porn, big feet and spam . The post has a German translation of the transcript, but the video itself is in English. Need help with Google Webmaster Toots, Google Analytics and/or Google Website Optimizer? An hour-long YouTube webinar covering all three is now live ) via (.

Marhsall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web makes a supposition that may be inherently incorrect. A huge number of people online don't know the difference between their browser's address bar and search bar. Let's keep that in perspective. What will it take for them to learn? That particular point has created a great conversation over at Read Write Web including an extremely well thought out response from John Andrews . The path to Amazon.

What is it they say about the squeaky wheel? Well, it's been over 13 hours now and my Google Calendar is still blank . I have no idea what my appointments or deadlines are for the day. Thanks Google! For those of you with their lives fully diarized, I present today's Picks. Wikipedia is testing a new system that would require approval before any new edits are published. As we suggest in Radically Transparent ,

How many times do we have to read about this kind of "report"? What is wrong with a 39% rise in net income for a quarter? How can that number "disappoint" investors and cause a 10% drop in stock price after the announcement? Your answer: Analysts. Just look at the WSJ report from the 17th says to understand exactly how "poorly" Google performed. Analysts are about details. After all,

According to Mashable , Google just acquired Russian contextual ad company Begun for $140 million and grabbed a monopoly in Russia's contextual advertising market in the process. Begun is currently owned by two companies, leading to an interesting double-deal: [ Rambler Media Ltd ] currently holds 50.1% of Begun. The transaction will consist of Rambler buying the remaining 49.9% stake in Begun from Bannatyne Limited, affiliated with the Finam group of companies,

Both Google )GOOG( and Microsoft )MSFT( reported quarterly earnings yesterday evening: it was not a pretty picture for either company. First up, Google. Net income of $1.25 billion Revenue of $5.37 billion Q2 earnings of $4.63 with Wall Street expecting $4.74 The Analysts said: Analysts noted that Mr. Schmidt had made reference, for the first time, to the "more challenging economic environment" in his prominent statement on Google's earnings release.

You may experience difficulty accessing Google Calendar during the hours of 1:30 pm and 4:30 pm PDT, today )July 17th(. For each affected calendar, this should last approximately 15 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. That's the message you'll find at the Google Calendar Help center . It's currently 5:50 pm PT-an hour and twenty minutes after the timeslot-and my calendar is completely blank. Now,