SEO MAX Your ROI Newsletter, 28 Sept 05, p1

Hi All

Here is the news & info I came across over the last month i thought worth mentioning in this edition;

e-Bay buys Skype, Google and MSN may fight to buy stake in AOL, new search channel opens up, being Mobile search current market being 12-24 year olds, but techs and CEO's are following, Google heralds end of the size wars by removing its index size from its homepage, releases Google Talk & blog search which enables one to search blogs in almost realtime. The issue of bidding on trademarks appeared again, but remains pretty open on Google; they state "Google already has a policy that prohibits advertisers from using someone else's trademark in their ad text when the trademark owner objects."

In articles of the week I have some info on how Google updates it SERP's (Search engine result pages) , and whether to use an underscore or a hyphen in a url.