Banned From MyBlogLog (ShoeMoney)

I guess the folks at MyBlogLog didn't like it that ShoeMoney was posting exploits for its service on his site.  If he got the same response I did when contacting them (ignored), I'm not surprised he decided to just start posting this stuff.  Eric, MyBlogLog's version of MySpace's Tom, commented in the post and said they'd banned ShoeMoney for posting user information on his blog.  HELLO??  It's posted on every single blog that uses the service… because it's very insecure!  Needless to say… I was amused.

  News Corp's Fox Interactive buys ad tech company (Reuters)

Fox has bought an advertising company to help "better target advertising to its customers".  What that REALLY means is that allllll that personal information people put in their MySpace profiles is about to be put to good use for advertising purposes.  Think about the possibilities with almost 100 million user profiles just waiting to be scraped…

Quality Score updates are live (Inside AdWords)

The much-talked-about updates to the quality scores are now live.  Wow.  I just completely repeated the title there.  But that's pretty much it.  Not much else to add.

  Security at Google (Google Operating System)

On the heels of the release of Google Apps Premiere, the company has published a white paper detailing some of the measure it takes to protect customer privacy.

  January U.S. Search Engine Rankings (comScore)

Google… Yahoo… Microsoft… Ask.com… Time Warner (AOL).  Sound familiar?  Interestingly, Yahoo and Ask.com both fell by 0.2% during the month of January.  I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise for Yahoo.  But Ask.com had been making substantial gains over the past few months.  I guess 0.2% isn't much to cry over just yet.