Justin pointed this out to me earlier today and it’s seemingly true on a few domains we’ve been checking and messing with… Is this the start of the quarterly PageRank update?

Boogers… No news really hitting the other sites on this. Chalk it up to a false alarm?

Here’s today’s installment of my daily podcast covering topics like search engine privacy issues, Google’s partnership with Spring/Nextel on the WiMax network, and some frustrations in using Google Earth…

Influencing today’s podcast were…
Search engines race to update privacy policies
Sprint Announces WiMax Partnership With Google
Privacy International Slams Google Over Privacy Practices
What’s the most private search engine of them all?

With special thanks to an article “Reducing Background Noise in Audacity” that helped make things sound a bit cleaner than the normal “recording while driving” approach. :)

Enjoy, and please post comments!

Today’s podcast is about Local Search and it’s integration on Google Universal Search. I quickly recap a few ways to help instigate Google Local to index and list your results — and of course mention that above all, the easiest way to get into Google Local is to SUBMIT to Google Local.

Enjoy!

Today I discuss Matt Cutts’ blog and how Google Webmaster Central is polling to find out what should be the next Google Webmaster Central feature…

Remember to cast your vote and share your thoughts on these features here on my blog!

This is my first attempt at podcasting since time has become tougher to come by. I want to make a more consistent effort to updating the site and providing commentary on the search industry — so I’ve resorted to this.

Please pardon the “ah”, “uhms” and dead air… and the rambling. I swear I’ll get the hang of this soon and be much more on point.

Topics Covered…
• Quick Introduction
• Microsoft Monday
• Yahoo Search: Updated?

Quick Links Referenced…
• Search Engine Roundtable: Did Yahoo! Search Really Do a July 2007 Update?

Tomorrow will be beefer… I promise!