Last week was WebmasterWorld PubCon, so not only did we talk about the major events at the conference, but also discusses the past two weeks of search buzz. One of the big topics we focused on throughout the show was search engine to search marketer communication.

Google announced that we should be expecting a new landing page quality score soon. There were possible Microsoft and PageRank updates late last week. We posted our WebmasterWorld PubCon conference coverage schedule. We looked at some SEO considerations in Google, Yahoo and other engines. We also discussed dozens of other topics.

We introduced the show with a look at how the industry including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and SEMs commemorated Halloween. I gave some insight from my stay at Yahoo! two weeks ago where I was shown first hand the new Panama ad system. We discussed the Did-It SEO versus PPC controversy.

Tim Mayer from Yahoo! was our special guest. Tim told us that we can expect support from Yahoo! on the NOODP tag, but it would be a lot more time for us to see support of a new META tag to opt out of using the Yahoo! Directory titles in the search results. Other topics included Google buying YouTube, Porn found on Google News home page, several SEO topics, Googles pinging service, code search and Yahoos Panama release in the UK.

We talked about our third anniversary at the Search Engine Roundtable, we talked about the future of Search Engine Watch, Danny Sullivan and Chris Boggs, we also discussed various important topics of the week with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft MSN Live, and Ask.com.

Matt Cutts from Google came on two discuss what he would ask a Google engineer if he was an SEO and he also commented on the new Google Reader. I then brought on Daniel Read, the Vice President, Site Product Mgt & User Experience at Ask.com to tell us why he feels SEOs should care about the Ask.com search engine. Other topics included a Google Maps bug, the PageRank update, Googles 8th birthday, some discussion on what types of links can hurt your rankings, a Google Analytics message and much much more.

In this show we covered a tool to check results as if you were in any geographic location, Live.com fixed the referrals bug and Canadians not feeling welcome.

Reaction from the Search Community on Danny Sullivans Departure,Bradley Sues Google AdSense Over Ban and Violation of TOS, Yahoo! Temporarily Removes Blog Search for Retooling, Keywords in File Names & URLs Do Help Google Flags Sites That Add Too Many New URLs, Google Changes , Handling of Domain (Navigational) Search, Google Launches Applications for Businesses and Domains.

In this edition we discussed the recent discussion around the Wikipedia community adding back the nofollow attribute to all external links, and if Google treats Wikipedia too well in the search results. We also discussed the bug with Google's site command search. There was a Yahoo! Search update we talked about, and also the bug with Yahoo! displayed anchor text as titles in the search results. Plus many more fun topics with Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Search and some SEO tips.