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It’s the end of the year and we here at 10e20 have a tradition of sharing our top stories in search and social media. This year is no exception. Without further ado, here are the top 50 stories in search.

50. Twitter microblogging tool goes mainstream (November/December)

49. Alibaba goes IPO (10/29)

48. Server downtime plagues Yahoo Stores on Cyber Monday (11/26)

47. Bodog online casino domain name frozen (8/28)

46. Porn.com sells for $9 million (5/15)

45. Jason Calacanis launches Mahalo human powered search engine (5/30)

44. Google starts to publish AP news in new partnership (8/31)

43. Digg partners with Microsoft for ads (7/25)

42. MySpace and Facebook study discovers different social class divisions (6/25)

41. Microsoft comes out with Silverlight to compete with Flash (4/15) and then launches Silverlight-powered search engine, Tafiti (8/20)

I haven’t done one of these round-up posts in awhile but there’s just too much good stuff lately to not share it:

Social: Lyndon illustrates the Tao of Linkbait Method - the art of hitting your target audience by aiming at a completely different audience. This post is inspired by a great movie and a really good idea.

Links: Joe Whyte shows you how to get hundreds of free links from .edu’s ethically and for free (you will rarely ever see .edu links | ethically | free together in the same sentence).

SEO: Eric Enge gives us 17 poor quality signals that your site might be sending. Some might be obvious (too large a percentage of your links are reciprocal) but others not so obvious (web server downtime too high).

10e20 designer (my brother) Patrick Winfield’s amazing picture is featured on the cover of Polanoid. He got all the graphic talent in the family. Click the image to the right to check it out:

Todd (Stuntdubl) made a post that has become required reading for anyone that works with me. Check out his “advanced beginner’s guide” to SEO.

10e20 contributor and friend Maki is running an experiment to see if he can become the most favorited blog on Technorati and then to see if this will actually bring him traffic. Do me a favor and add him to your Technorati favorites…

Stephen Juhl’s stupid easy approach to competitive link buying.

When Google bought DoubleClick they also bought an SEO company. Discuss…