Holy Moly we hit the motherload!
Found a great list of search engine blogs over at SearchEngineJournal that you can view here:
Search Engine Blogs - The Great List of Search News Bloggers
Anyone starting to feel overwhelmed with all the excellent SEO and search engine blogs out there? Wow!
Thanks to SearchBrains for the great find!

First thing to note: I’m still a Google Fan.
But to place anywhere in the SERPS for anything remotely competitive, you need masses of inbound links. Some webmasters choose to build their own linking networks (now you have costs for domains, hosting, scripts, etc.). And some prefer to buy text links.
The most links in wins.
Who said [...]

I admit it: I’m a Google Fan
But I was just thinking about my last entry re: Become.com and how I’ve learned that search engine competition is a *Good Thing*.
When one search engine has the power to make or break your online income, or provides the majority of your traffic, haven’t we given that search engine [...]

Become.com Beta
The search engine is now open to the public (beta).
As avid shoppers, we understand the tremendous difficulty involved in researching a new product or service. We are attempting to reduce this difficulty by taking an innovative approach to search enginge technology, and tuning it for shopping information. Our goal is to help you find [...]

Corrupt DMOZ Editor
I don’t have much to say, but I’ll quote the entry:
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
nkLove Letter to the Incredulous… Roses for all.
Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Some parties have referred to me as an ex-dmoz editor. I just want to clear up that I am a current dmoz editor with [...]

If you’d like to work for Google, here’s a new position:
Google Quality Rater - Temp Position
Payrolling.com is recruiting part-time remote workers to help with search quality evaluation on a project basis for Google, Inc., the search engine company based in Mountain View, California. Candidates must be web-savvy and analytical, have excellent web research skills and [...]

Excellent thread over at searchenginewatch to help with mod rewrite:
Mod Rewrite Tips & Tricks
This is used to help make your urls more search engine friendly. You could also use this to help redirect one old file name to a new file name. Lots of goodies here. I’m copying all this to tuck away in my [...]

Google is now an ICANN accredited domain registrar:
Google Accredited Domain Registrar # 895
This could be fun, maybe Google will have free domain promotions or cheap deals for adwords advertisers.
If Google’s prices were the best buy, would you purchase your domains through them? What if Google gave higher weight to domains that were registered [...]

Check out this interview with a link spammer - it’s an interesting read.
Link Spammer Interview
“It was around December 2003: Google did what was called the ‘Florida update’. It changed the algorithm that measured how high a site should be ranked to spot ‘nepotistic’ links and devalue them. So if you had a link farm of [...]

Big news flying around the web that I’m sure you’ve all read several times already, the big engines are implementing a new no follow tag.
You can read more about it here:
MSN - Working Together Against Blog Spam
Google - Preventing Comment Spam
Yahoo - A Defense Against Comment Spam
This can be used on any type of website, [...]