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Users of Russian social network Odnoklassniki.ru are getting a taste of Google, according to a new report, with a search box becoming the subject of some tests. If all goes well, the box should become a permanent feature, and Google will then gain access to a significant share of the Russian ad market.read more

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Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Selling SEO During an Economic Downturn; Searching for Something to Watch; Yahoo Introduces Glue Pages to the U.S.; and more.

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Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Yahoo's Next Move; Marketing Pitches: Don't Strike Out With Your Audience; Google AdWords Launches Search-Based Keyword Tool; and more.

In his Cloud Computing Keynote in San Jose, CA, on November 20th - entitled "A Head in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service" - the CTO of Amazon.com, Werner Vogels, discussed the many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business.read more

Online advertising growth is set to slow into single digits for the first time in 2009 according to eMarketer's revised projections.eMarketer is basing its projections on the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) data. It says online ad spending will reach 25.7 billion in 2009, which is 8.9 percent over the $23.6 billion that will be spent in 2008.Previously eMarketer predicted in August that online ad spending would grow 14.5 percent in 2009.read more

AOL’s social software provider Userplane updated its Chat App so that users can access it from any open platform social network. In English, that means users can chat across social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Ning, Bebo, and others. read more

Hulu introduced a couple of new site features today to make it easier for users to find the videos they are after. For the first one you can thank Hulu's Beijing team according to a post on the Hulu Blog. read more

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: SEO Dreams are Made of This; The Future of Google's Search Personalization; Jerry Yang to Step Down as Yahoo CEO; and more.