Nothing innovative here really. Just some functional features which should have been added a long time to Google's Blog Search. Then again, better late than never.  So, Google has just added RSS/ATOM subscription, list of  the most popular terms that users are using, and latest blog posts from, I guess "more prominent" blogs indexed by Google Blog Search? The RSS/ATOM subscription is nothing new really.

Buzz has been building about real-time search. Of course, you can search real-time Tweets on Twitter, Facebook is testing search on its live Feed, and Bing just added limited Twitter search to its engine. Now, FriendFeed is launching real-time search and it has the potential to be the mackdaddy of them all. Here's why. FriendFeed is a social aggregator.

Now that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Friendfeed, and so on): PS: If you want to subscribe to my links at Friendfeed, it's there . [Hat tip to Websonic !

by Vera H-C Chan Given the continued Search interest , amusement parks will a Fourth of July weekend destination for many. Those headed to Orland's Magic Kingdom on Independence Day might want to stop by a revamped Hall of Presidents, where an animatronic Barack Obama â€"AKA Robobama â€"makes his debut. Animatronics is, as HowStuffWorks puts it, a " mechanized puppet .

Creating new landing pages for testing is getting cheaper. And scalable. So there are fewer and fewer reasons for SMBs not to be testing their landing pages and sites to optimize conversion rates. Testing landing pages has long been a preoccupation of mine, particularly because of the traditionally prohibitive costs. Even if you use a design contest at a place like 99Designs.com ,

I've been reading the latest "Is SEO copywriting dead" debate by Glenn Murray and Brian Clark .

Here's an interest post on Marketing Pilgrim about things you should learn if you are going to be an Internet marketer. And I agree with them. But where's the SEO? Let's run down the list: Fake it like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally Be persistent and focus, focus, focus Get hyped up and know that people LIE!

Seems the Chinese government used the "Great Firewall" to block Google, YouTube and Gmail for a couple of days this week, Fox News reported . Seems access to Google both in English and Chinese was blocked for part of Wednesday and Thursday in parts of China. Fox News stated,

There are a lot of parallels between Google AdWords and SEO, and a lot of the beginner mistakes are the same for both traffic acquisition strategies. I figured it would be worth outlining some of the most common ones to help save you money on your search engine marketing campaigns. 1.

It is unquestionable that the largest news story of the week has been the protests in Iran led by opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, and the crack down of the protesters by the Iranian police and government. To make the story even more relevant to our world, since Iranian media is state controlled,

Geoffrey Fowler had a very interesting piece (subscription required) in the the Wall Street Journal yesterday detailing eBay's shift in focus at the hands of CEO John Donahoe. According to the article, while auctions accounted for over half of eBay's $8.5 billion in revenue last year, looking forward,

I've been reading the latest "Is SEO copywriting dead" debate by Glenn Murray and Brian Clark .

by Vera H-C Chan Blockbusters may monopolize the box-office, but summer has always been a time of memorable comedies. This time around, funnymen are packed cheek to funnybone in the multiplexâ€" especially this weekend with a comic throwdown between the " Land of the Lost "" and " The Hangover ." Plus,

by Jon Brooks This weekend, some comments from the CIA chief on Dick Cheney cause a stir, Iran erupts in violence after a presidential election, and a dropped pop-up sends baseball fans searching for video of a monumental error. Just a few of the more popular stories on Yahoo! Buzz.

A few weeks back, we announced that all publishers can now integrate their AdSense accounts with Google Analytics. If you're not very familiar with Analytics yet, you might be interested in reading a recent post on the Analytics blog that addresses ten common myths about the product. For example,