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Did you know that the Google search engine actually tells you how to get a top search engine ranking? Everyone thinks it's a mysterious secret. However, it actually isn't all that mysterious at all.

There's been a lot of changes in search engine optimization at least over the past 9 years that I've been doing it. Back in 1999 keyword stuffing was considered, if not white hat, then a reasonably grayish-white way to get a web page to the top of the rankings. Back then, you would come across many websites where the tops of the pages (above the fold as they say) were for the visitors of the site and keywords stuffed at the bottom of the page were for the search engines.

Australians are working longer average weekly hours than their colleagues in other developed countries, according to new data from the OECD compiled by a Sydney academic.

Adobe last week released the beta version of Photoshop Express, an online, Flash-based image editing tool. Therein lies the problem -- although it bears the same name as the well-known and venerable image editor, Photoshop Express isn't Photoshop at all.

A news service web site, Streem,  is about to be launched that is pitched to 18 to 40 year old Australians. To encourage readers to submit their own writings, Streem is offering contributors cash.