Viacom’s battle with YouTube is heating up again. In June, the company promised to appeal after it lost its battle with Google-owned YouTube when a judge decided that the video-sharing was protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement

According to a new study , no one really cares what you’re tweeting.* … #wtvr Of course, it didn’t really take a study of 1.2 billion tweets to find that out, though at least now we know just how much people don’t care! No, it didn’t take a study because if you just use Twitter, you’d know it intuitively.

Have you noticed the number of commercials being run by high-profile tier one companies and websites that are in the local listing industry?

A Google Webmaster Help thread asks a question I honestly never thought of before. Why isn’t there a way to cancel a reconsideration request in Google Webmaster Tools? The webmaster said he submitted a reconsideration request but did it for..

Posted by Fryed7 This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community.

Click Forensics reported yesterday that the overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 22.3 percent, up from 18.6 percent in Q2 2010.

There are reports at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums that Yahoo Site Explorer has lost a huge chunk of the links reported in the tool. Honestly, I am not sure why people are surprised

This column has primarily focused on paid search, but for the last few weeks, we’ve discussed contextual targeting using the engines. Today we’re going to dive into another non-search triggered product that Google offers, display targeting.

One day after Yahoo reported its Q3 earnings and Yahoo’s board unofficially committed to stick with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz for the remainder of her contract, Bartz was interviewed by Fox Business. Click to read the rest of this post…

Here’s a roundup of today’s live blogging and coverage of SES Chicago 2010. If I missed your site’s coverage, please make sure to leave a note in the comments.