In addition to today's Internet Marketing Monitor coverage, we felt these stories were worth pulling out of the multitude of news items for March 15, 2007:

  Add a Blog Bar to your site  [Google AJAX Search API Blog]

The Blog Bar is pretty much the same thing as the News Bar… but instead of searching Google News for new content it uses Google Blog Search.  If you like the News Bar you'll probably like this, too.

  How Do You Submit to AskCity?  The Old Fashioned Way…  [Small Business SEM]

Yeah… Ask is a little behind in the times on a few things.  You can't submit URLs or sitemaps to their crawler.  And you have to email them to get listed in AskCity.  *Sigh*  I hate seeing good services being under utilized.

  Be one of the First to Test Stumble Video from StumbleUpon  [pepperjamBlog]

I, like the author of this post, love StumbleUpon.  So I'm really excited to see a similar service emerge for videos.  Stumble Video does the same thing for online video that StumbleUpon has traditionally done for other content.  I can't wait to get home and give this a try!

  Viacom's own video pirates  [Valleywag]

It's a little ironic.  Doncha think?  A Viacom-owned video sharing website engaging in the exact same activity that the media company is suing YouTube for.  Hmm.  Something tells me we might be seeing a crackdown on pirated content at iFilm in the near future.  How would it look in court if Google simply had to say "I know you are but what am I?" as their defense?

  A world in motion  [Official Google Blog]

Google announced that it has acquired Gapminder's Trendanalyzer software.  The software is used to bring analytics and statistical data "to life".  So does this mean we'll be seeing more pretty charts and graphs from Mountain View?  I'd settle for the same old plain ones if I could see a little more information.

  Google Click to Play Video Ads Added to Some AdWords Advertisers Accounts  [Search Engine Roundtable]

Way back in December we mentioned Google's Click to Play Ads.  According to SERoundtable those ads are starting to show up as options in some AdWords accounts.  Maybe this is part of a widespread rollout being done in phases.  It should be interesting to see how these perform once they're put into widespread use.

  Site Content and use of web catalogues  [Official Google Webmaster Central Blog]

At first glance this is just a "don't scrape sites or we'll get you" post.  But more than that, it seems to be a subduedly masked jab at SEOs:  "Some SEOs however, do not focus on the user’s needs, but instead create pages solely for search engines."  And then they go on to say that SEOs should be researched before being hired (which is a good idea).  I'm just not sure I'd have tagged that behavior to "SEOs".  Do real SEOs do that?  (yes… I know the honest answer to my own question)

See you all on Monday!