"By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter."

"... "Show options" toggle and noticed a whole slew of geographic options that were new to me, including "nearby" and others, too. Apparently it all depends on what "default location" Google has recorded for your computer."

"... we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we've detected on their websites, including: Spammy or abused user-generated content"

"An independent review recently concluded that decision was unfair and that the plan should be reconsidered."

"Amazon did state they would reinstate Colorado-based Associates if the state of Colorado brought the law into compliance with what the US Supreme Court said was constitutional."

"Nearly 80 percent of people worldwide consider access to the Internet to be a basic human right, rather than a privilege..."

"Payment for some Brazilian Google AdSense editors won't happen this month. In an official note on its online support forum, Google said that "some editors won't be paid in February" due to a "processing problem"."

"[GOOGLE] has asked a federal court to keep documents filed in the case under seal for another three months. Viacom wants to unseal all but the most sensitive of trade secrets within two weeks and Google wants to wait until June 4. "

Now added to Webmaster Tools Section.

"The service runs on set-top boxes "using elements of Google's Android operating system..."

"...running nothing but Linux for a week. The aim being that as I discovered problems I would try and find solutions, in the hope that these ideas may be of use to other members."

"The standoff between Google and the Chinese government took another turn this weekend, with state officials saying that the search giant had not come forward with a formal complaint about the hacking attacks that prompted it to threaten to shutter its operations in the country."

"The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most significant programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities."

The highly regarded Search Marketing Desktop by Yahoo - is no longer in beta. No word if Microsoft will adopt the tool for their usage.

Bing Says: "Last month we pushed out our largest amount of new imagery EVER in terms of square kilometers. This month, we're blowing THAT record out of the water. You thought 1 million+ sq. km. was large? How about 6.7 million square kilometers! It's pretty much unfathomable. The big winners? Aerial: The Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and most places in the US where we had black and white imagery."