IBM Mashup Summit

I'm at the IBM Mashup Summit in San Francisco today.  As we are within the bowels of a large enterprise, there is a process to follow to get wifi access, so I'm offline. 

Briefly: Clash Puns, George Lucas, AdWords

Yahoo has a shortcut to its lyrics search, while Ask has a Smart Answer for the master Jedi among other May birthday celebs. Google puts everyone back to work with an updated AdWords Editor.

Gord on Connection & Community

As Media Post’s Search Insider Summit opened up, everyone fresh with coffee and battles with the bagel toasting machine, the smell of change in the search industry was in the air. Of course we know that change is a key component of search marketing and it’s what makes this industry so interesting and challenging.

Google Finance Cashes In Updates

Some new features arrived in Google's Finance site, with the big addition being content from events like earnings announcements and analyst calls.