Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:

From the SEW Blog:

• AOL to Distribute Citysearch Content, Ads
  Amidst all the secret talks of mergers and deals between the top search players, AOL and IAC have agreed to a distribution deal.
• Adult Films Vivid Asks Google, Yahoo to Protect Kids
  Vivid CEO Steven Hirsch, speaking at Yale University, will call on Google and Yahoo to take measures to keep explicit material from children, according to a company press release.
• Yahoo Mails Letter to Shareholders: Full Text
  Yahoo mailed a letter to shareholders outlining the reasons the Board believes Microsoft’s proposal significantly undervalues Yahoo and isn’t in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders.
• SEW Experts: Search Engine Marketing Career Development
  Why would anyone want to become an SEM professional? Well, it’s a hot, growing, in-demand field, and everyone wants a piece of it.
• SEW Experts: SEOs, Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!
  The Internet has changed everything for everyone. If you don’t believe and act on that, you won’t survive, plain and simple.

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