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I have an issue. Maybe it’s a psychological problem. I don’t know. But unless I’ve already read a story on a blog’s website, I absolutely cannot mark it as read in my feed reader.

While I debate getting professional help (or just keep browsing my feed reader), here’s a little Linky Goodness!

• Okay, so you have to login and go to the experimental search page, but if you really loved Yahoo’s new Search Assist interface, you can Enable Auto-Complete on Google Homepage
• It’s official: Google Adds “Selling Links” For PageRank To Link Schemes Page
• Plenty of the 50+ comments on our coverage of YouTube’s overlay ads (InVideo Ads) were negative. And now, YouTube Video Overlay Ads Becoming More Visible

We need something better to celebrate than taxes today. I know—it’s Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday! And oh so very fittingly, we have a diverse collection of links today for linky goodness.

• Huh. Nobody’s complaining about a YouTube monopoly (yet), although YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search.
• Batelle confirms it: Federated Media netted $50M from investors.
• I hadn’t heard about this one, but Facebook will delay their redesign, originally scheduled for this month, until later in the spring.
• Yahoo’s not the only one with delusions of grandeur big plans: Google wants to take over China (the search market, anyway) within five years.
• Search Engine Guide has two features to help companies get social: the beginning of a series on corporate blogging, What Makes a Great Company Blog?, and Great Examples of Corporate Twitter Use.

Today’s Linky Goodness goes well with the Radiohead story of the day: it’s the naysayers edition.

• New York isn’t done with Facebook yet: now they’re saying Are Facebook’s Social Ads are Illegal
• It begins: OpenSocial detractors
• Will Facebook’s SocialAds affect Trust Among Friends on Facebook?
• And one bit of potentially good news: Google Gives AdWords Branding Power with Placement Targeting

We can’t possibly go to the weekend on that note, so share something funny in the comments. Okay?

Now, we can’t guarantee success, but we do know what LINKY GoODNESS stands for, don’t we?

• You have to admire them for trying: Live Search Adds “More” Tab To Home Page, Exposes More Vertical Search Tools
• Google’s Mobile platform is already getting apps, despite the fact that the first phone is at least a year away: “What’s Open” The First Android App?
• Will Picasa get a run for its money? Adobe: Online Photoshop coming this year
• WebTrends: reports of our death acquisition have been greatly exaggerated
• From the “Remember them?” file: LookSmart Reports Poor Earnings & Sells FindArticles To CNET

I’ll bet you didn’t know that Linky Goodness was more than a chant—it’s an acronym, too. It stands for Little Items of News to Keep You GOing On to Do Neat, Exciting and Successful Stuff.

So, let’s get to it, eh?

• Personally, I’m tired of copyright violators. Does Ars Technica have a solution? Fixing the “clear mismatch” between technology and copyright law: six ideas
• So Google gave up IP information on a person using its search engine in India. The man was subsequently jailed. Best of all, it wasn’t the man the police were looking for
• Newspapers, including Hearst, Tribune, MediaNews, Cox and Gannett, may be forming an ad network to take on . . . Yahoo? (Yes, we read that right—all because of last November’s classifieds deal.)

It’s just a good month for linky goodness. May as well keep a good thing going!

• Be warned and be safe (we hope): Update: Subverted search sites lead to massive malware attack in progress (via)
• Know a teen who loves open source and coding? Tell them about this: Google Highly Open Participation Contest (via)
• News Corp builds online ad network. Is MySpace the eventual target? Nope: it’s an adaptation of the extant MySpace HyperTargeting platform, rolling out across other Fox Interactive sites.
• I’ve long used their services, but now it’s legal: Corbis Offers Free Photos to Bloggers – With a Catch. Spoiler: catch = ads.
• Google comes to Macs: Google Gadgets Meets Apple’s Dashboard Widgets

“Now go take on the day.” Or the evening.

Here’s some linky goodness to see you off into the weekend!

• Just in case you weren’t already jealous enough of Craig Newmark, Silicon Alley Insider values Craigslist at $5 Billion
• Those 300 DoubleClick employees that got laid off? They failed Google’s “entrance exam” (okay, well, application process).
• In case you had doubts, Comcast and Starcom commissioned a study to confirm that ad targeting works.
• Google Blogoscoped reports on a new middle-of-page Google Onebox type.
• Lisa Barone takes on the Pollara study. After all, only 23% of those surveyed were influenced by well-known bloggers in making purchasing decisions.