Google Ranking Factors
Cheat sheet of factors that are supposed to influence Google rankings. No information on weighting of factors. This information changes over time - so check the date of the last update.
Also interesting ... Rollyo
"Roll your own search engine" - personalised search tool. Create lists of relevant sites to search.
A weblog (with RSS feed) dedicated to analysis of the postings of a Google employee in a webmaster forum. He seems to be pretty careful in the way he says things to avoid his words sounding like he is uttering a Google pronouncement. Definitely some interesting reading. Probably the closest you will ever get to insider tips from Google.
"By placing the "&tmpl=E088" characters at the end of a Yahoo search results query, they'll be able to see what are reportedly the Inktomi-only results."