I’ve been looking for stories that tap into the 18-35 year-old male demographic and I hit the jackpot today with news that Miller Brewing Co. has launched Brew Blog; providing daily news and reporting on the brewing industry.

It’s interesting to note there’s no “drink responsibly” or “must be over 21″ anywhere to be seen.

Congratulations to my good friend, and co-worker for 5 years, Chadd Lomoglio, as he departs MarketSmart/WebSourced/KeywordRanking/Worldmall (etc etc) and joins Zunch as executive vice president.

Chadd’s sales management expertise will certainly serve the company very well and I’m confident that Chadd will make a big impact.

Best of luck Chaddly!

I received an email (below) from Yahoo about the up and coming changes to Yahoo Sponsored Search Platform. Is Yahoo going to be just like Google, or is it just me?
Since Yahoo, MSN, and Google are all going to be the same now, can someone please create an interface that I will be able to add and pause keywords and make text or url changes that will apply to all 3 engines at a touch of a button?

Email:
Better Ways to Connect with Customers Will Make Your Advertising More EffectiveYou’ve told us your needs and we’ve listened. A completely redesigned search marketing platform is on its way, full of advanced, easy-to-use features that will help you better connect with Yahoo!’s vast and valuable audience.

By now you should know that, anything you post online, to the public, is fair-game for Google’s crawler. But a recent incident involving the indexing of social security numbers and test scores for 619 students at public schools in Catawba County, N.C., shows there is still a grey area when it comes to password protected info.

While Google eventually took down the information – and claims it can’t crawl secure data – it once again raises the issue of where the burden should lie.

Should a webmaster be held responsible for knowing all of the procedures necessary to prevent Google from spidering, or should the burden be on Google.

Avinash doesn’t post to his blog every day, but when he does post, he usually has something interesting to say. In his latest post, he reminds web site marketers to not neglect their internal site search.

Keywords that bring visitors to your web site, are not always the same words they use to navigate, once they’re there.

“The key insight is that most searchers are looking for generic things (think for example “category termsâ€?) in google or yahoo or msn to locate a relevant site. But once they are on the website they are looking for something specific.”

The importance of good site structure and analyzing the intent of your visitors are also covered.

Chris Pirillo’s tag search engine, Gada.be, is changing its name to TagJag.com and getting a redesign as well, according to Arrington.

The new site will go live next week. More screenshots at TechCrunch.

Full-time friend, part-time competitor, Scot Wingo, knows eBay better than most, and, having been acquired at one time by Overture/Yahoo, knows the search engine space too.

He combines his experience and comes up with an interesting theory that eBay is about to repeat the bad mistake made by Overture some years ago when negotiating with Yahoo.

Y! basically said – we’re interested, but you need us more than we need you and we’re not paying a premium. We’ll buy you for more in the mid $20′s (1.2b) as thats what makes sense to us. If you’re not interested, let’s keep/sweeten our commercial deal. Behind the scenes, i’m sure the Y! guys realized that OVER really didn’t have any options and Google was going to pound the heck out of them.