With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. See examples of how you can use Google Insights for Search.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

News - In a recent blog from Google‘s web master help blog, low quality backward links are mentioned and how to deal with them. Google mentions being part of a bad community and whether this could essentially lead to a negative effect in your search engine results positions.

We have always been under the impression that low quality bad links are essentially worthless rather than them actually effecting your sites listings, the reason we believed this because otherwise webmasters could quite easily savatage a competitor. Google backs this up by essentially saying that link building is on of many variables taken into Google’s algorithm and for webmasters no to worry.

Tutorial - Google Insights, we will look at the following sections:

• location
• time scales
• predicted search volume
• regional interest
• top related search terms
• rising search terms
• issues (Data centers)

Showcase - Cufon font replacement, plug web design blog tutorial. We will expand more in the web design video blog, how to use the cufon font replacement method. We also think that the search engines will be fine with the process as the cached version of a page looks as it should with 1 version of the font, it also claims to be SEO friendly.

Question - IP address question.