Been in touch with a couple of friends that have converted over to Google Sites from their old websites and we’ve added them to Google Webmaster Tools (so we can generate a sitemap) and submitted that sitemap back to Google Webmaster Tools.

In the past this has always been a pretty quick route to get sites indexed (or in these cases re-indexed) by Google. That being said, it appears that Google is dragging their heels. Both Advantage Insurance Group and Lake Forest Acupuncture both have been having Google download and read the sitemaps for the last two weeks and (as recently again as yesterday) and they still stand at 0% found in the Google Index. [More]

Wow, just when you think certainly areas of your life are pretty stable… Vortx, a leading integrator of AspDotNetStorefront software in Ashland, OR, announced yesterday that they had acquired the Ohio-based ecommerce company. [More]