Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Buying Links is Hard Work; What Will 2009 Bring Us?; Online Video Wins the 9-5 Hour, Weekdays; and more.

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Social Shopping: Build Long-Term Traffic and Trust; Google Product Search + Mobile = The Future?; Yahoo! Unveils Social Inbox; and more.

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox?; Keyword Discovery 101, Part 2; Google, Lessig Defend Net Neutrality Positions; and more.

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation; Citysearch Launches Application for iPhone; Google Chrome Out of Beta; and more.

Snack brand turns to social network to chronicle rivalry between college football teams and their fans.

Executive switch-ups were a regular occurrence at Yahoo, though staff changes also affected AOL, Microsoft, and Google.

The online ad industry’s increasing relevance to consumers and businesses made it that much more vulnerable to government inspection and the economic downturn in 2008.