Some more handy tools useful in domain name research, website promotion strategies and managing on-line advertising. Good time sinks at any rate.

Google Suggest

Great for checking name and letter combinations and misspellings very fast. http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Yahoo Search Marketing

Overture max bid amounts for specific terms. Give a quick overview to help narrow down a search campaign. http://www.pixelfast.com/overture/

Overture Keyword Selector tool

Keywords and related keyword searches and how many times that term was searched on last month. http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Niche Watch

Keyword competition checker, very addicting: Top 20 competitor pages analysis, detailed technical information to compete for the keyword or phrase. http://www.nichewatch.com/

Spider Simulator

A fairly decent freebie to show how spiders view your site. Can show some surprising results especially if you have code hidden you did not know about. http://se-spider.com/

adCenter Labs is demo of MSNs marketing tools. If you are researching search terms for advertising, researching a new domian name or doing some search engine optimization you'll want to check these out.

Context Based Acronym Resolution
Expand acronyms and abbreviations based on related search keywords.

Keyword Group Detection
Given a word or phrase, find a set of similar words.

Keyword Mutation Detection
Detect frequent misspellings or alternative representations of the same keyword in search query log.

Search Funnel
Analyze and visualize user search sequences in the form of funnels.

Search Results Clustering
Cluster a set of documents, such as search results, into semantically related groups in real time.

Search Volume Seasonality Forecast
Forecast seasonality patterns of search queries.

Search engine rankings are extremely competitive and Website owners are under pressure to do all they can to gain visibility in search results.

Those pressures come from many quarters: there are branding restrictions, style guidelines, legal issues, navigation needs, sales conversion demands, site interaction demands and more.

The fact remains, though, that search engines were designed for information purposes. This presents hurdles to businesses that try to exploit the search engines in order to attract users who seek in information, then try to sell them something. To overcome these hurdles, many businesses use increasingly ruthless tactics -- tactics that lead them into dishonest territory -- to gain those higher search rankings.

"Buying expensive items online from the people you've never met without any guarantees on the seller's part might seem a bit risky even for an experienced Internet shopper. The 'hotness' of the real estate investment market apparently influences some cash-heavy investors to look for opportunities online.

When the entire transaction is done via a click of the mouse, and the deed for newly bought real estate arrives in the mail, some unsuspecting buyers might discover that a cozy house near the bus line in the middle of a busy street might imply a criminalized neighborhood and proximity to crack house. The New York Times investigates negative experiences of people buying investment real estate online."