Bogus viral marketing stories are nothing new – remember the 13 year old who stole his father’s credit card and booked a hotel room and prostitutes to play XBox. Well. the latest online scam story is the seizure of Torrent Finder – one which I was taken in by yesterday, writing ” Homeland Security Seized Torrent Domain That Gave Same Results Google Still Does .” The New York Times and many prestigious newspapers reported the story, TV stations and news sites in at least five other languages I could find doing a Google News search were also taken in by this scam

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Homeland Security with help from ICANN has seized the domain of a torrent search site and posted a notice stating: “This domain name has been seized by ICE Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court under the authority of 18 U.S.C. 981 and 2323.” 18 USC covers civil forfeiture of property real and personal for various legal infringements

I’ve been looking at various internet-to-TV devices as part of my Life With Google TV series. I’ve covered Google TV, Roku & Boxee Box so far. Time for Apple TV! If you buy a lot with iTunes or have an iPhone or iPad, this is a great device.

I’m continuing my look at what search might look like in the future with this first part of a fascinating interview with Shashi Seth, the Senior VP of Search Products at Yahoo. With the recent Bing arrangement, Yahoo now finds themselves in an interesting position in the search game.

Problems with the Quality Scores in Google Adwords were first noticed late last month and were fixed, according to Google, but now they appear to be having problems again. Late October the Google Adwords help forum noted there were problems with Quality Scores – which Google claimed were merely reporting issues and would not impact prices of clicks.

Chances are you’re totally unprepared for the holiday season.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Changes AdWords Agency Service Model This week, Google AdWords sent out emails to some of their agency customers detailing a change that will be happening..

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

This special Thanksgiving edition of the Search recap has some interesting topics.