Abid, Internet. Internet, Abid.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Call it a hand-holding tour. Yahoo and Microsoft executives and a small army of consultants will be making the rounds to agencies and marketers this summer to tell them what they need to know about the integration of the two search engines to create a stronger competitor to Google.

Meanwhile, the planning phase is over and both sides have embarked on the complex task of connecting Yahoo’s search front end to Bing’s search technology. The entire process is scheduled to be complete in October, but much has to happen between now and then. There are a lot of moving parts, and historically, these things don’t go smoothly. So what should you watch for in the Yahoo-Bing integration?

What it means: Bieber has close to 3 million (!) followers on Twitter and he manages to make “you” feel special. He understands that it’s all about conversation and not about broadcast. It’s real. Can you imagine the marketing power that this engagement brings? Now, if you’re used to broadcasting, how do you change to a conversational model? That’s your new challenge.

FreshGuide.com, which includes the BookFresh.com scheduling service, has been acquired by Sugar Inc., a diversified media company that includes a TV network and programming aimed at women, as well as ShopStyle, a “social shopping service.”

A quality link for me is an editorial  link on a real site – a site that’s been around for years. The site in question is well linked to itself, and dooesn’t sell links – and is careful who they link to. These sites are kind of hard to get links from – but that’s the point…

“One thing worth bearing in mind is that all modern search engines do semantic analysis to one extent or another. It may be phrase based, using PLSA, HTTM or a hybrid. That part is really inconsequential. That is important is that we can take heart in the fact that content that is semantically flexible will do a better job of targeting the page in question.”

“Inspired by Stephan Spencer’s superb series of SEO Myths That Won’t Die, I figured it was time to put right those international search marketing myths that I hear repeated every day at conferences or on websites from people claiming to be “expert” in global matters. Frequently, the source of the problem is so-called “experts” do have a genuinely good knowledge of SEO working in English, then gain a little knowledge of how things work in other languages and make the assumption that they have cracked the problem.”

When you talk about the Internet growing to 225 million sites, you’ve got to ask: Who’s parsing all that? How do you make sense of all that stuff?