I thought that one of the more interesting topics addressed at Search Engine Strategies San Jose a while back was that of SEO and the publishing industry.

This is an industry seemingly at war with entities like Google at least partially, even though there are clearly measures publishers could take, which would make Google and Google News in particular work to their advantage. Google News is a very useful resource to online news seekers. It seems to get more and more useful as time goes on. For example, they just started incorporating realtime search suggestions into news queries.