If you’ve ever done basic genealogy online, you know that Google can be used to find the dead. But did you know that Google can find the “un”dead? (No, I don’t mean zombies.)

In March 2002, John Darwin went missing during a canoing trip “within sight of his home.” He never returned and the following year, he was officially declared dead.

Until an unidentified woman googled him. Suspicious of the whole story, she found him alive and well in Argentina Panama City, in a photograph dated 2006. With his wife.

As it turned out, John Darwin didn’t die on a canoe trip. But he did allow his family, friends and government to think he was dead. “Years later,” says his wife, Anne, he contacted his wife to let her know he was alive. She moved to Panama six weeks ago.

2007 was a good year for SEO blogs. But perhaps it wasn’t our best year ever. In a classic and pretty well executed piece of linkbait, Evan Carmichael has listed the 50 top SEO posts of 2007. We’re happy to have made the top 10 with our 26 Free Buzz Monitoring Tools. To his credit, the list is a pretty good summary of the year in review, and pretty balanced throughout the year.

However, six of the 50 top blog posts of the year are from . . . other years. The dates on these posts aren’t secreted away or somewhere in CSS-hidden text. For many of them, they’re even above the fold.

Alrighty then. I’ve added photos to Flickr from day two of PubCon. Here are a sample.