Back Link is still important

After the PageRank update on Sep 29, 2006, I found the backlink is still important. No matter what the kind of that backlink is, if it's not a bad link, it will benefit your site. I notice a website, which got tons of unrelated backlinks, PR changed from 1 to 5. Just like Google said:

When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

Google is still a backlink based search engine. So more backlinks and more cached pages, you will get higher PageRank. However, we also notice the Google's changes, but the content is still the king.

Three Primary Principles of Goolge's Content Searching

Google clarified the philosophy again for respect content owners and protect their rights:
1. Respecting copyright
that means more restricted to duplicated contents.
2. Letting content owners choose
a good news for original content writers, dont's write content just for SEs.
3. Benefitting content owners
I'm not sure, but I wish we can benefit most. I believe there are many other better ways than Adsense to promote our profit.

Google Sitelinks

The links shown below some sites in Google search results, called Sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Google systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they're looking for.

Google only show Sitelinks for results when they think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good Sitelinks, or Google don't think that the Sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, Google won't show them.

Download Yahoo! Toolbar 1.3 for Firefox

Yahoo! Toolbar team put Yahoo! Live Search in the latest version of Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox for the US, Germany, UK and Korea.
They made a few more improvements to the search box. In addition to making suggestions, it now shows matching items from the previous searches, and expands as the type so you can see what you've typed when you do one of those extra long queries.