By Matt McGee on Jan 5, 2009

This is a collection of 2008 year-in-review lists, articles, and blog posts that are at least somewhat related to online marketing, doing business online, running a small business, and the like. You all responded so favorably to last year’s Big List of 2007 Recap Posts, that I wouldn’t dare think of not doing such a list again this year.

Search Industry

• Search Engine Watch: 50 Most Memorable Moments in Search for 2008
• News.com: Year in review: Google’s grand ambitions
• Search Engine Watch: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Google 2008 Review
• Search Engine Roundtable: Search Industry 2008
• Jonathan Mendez: 2008: The Year Search Won by a Knockout
• Techmeme: Top 10 objectively biggest tech stories of 2008
• Business Pundit: The 50 Best Business Blogs of 2008
• Bill Hartzer: Top 10 Public Relations PR Blunders of 2008
• Invesp: Top 100 Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008

Marketing

• Marketing Experiments: Top takeaways from our 2008 optimization research
• Springwise: This year’s top 10 marketing & advertising ideas
• Techipedia: Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008

Local Search

• Praized: A Look Back At 2008’s Most Important News and Trends in Local Search and Social Media
• Peter Krasilovsky: 2008: The Year That Was
• Local.com: Best of Local 2008
• Google Maps Mania: The Year in Google Maps
• Google Maps Mania: The Best Google Maps of 2008 – Part One
• Google Maps Mania: The Best Google Maps of 2008 – Part Two
• Google Maps Mania: 2008 in Maps
• Springwise: This year’s top 10 telecom & mobile ideas

Video

• Search Engine Land: 2008 Video Search Year In Review
• Truveo: 2008 Year-end Hot Videos
• TIME: Top 10 Viral Videos

Individual Blog/Site Recaps

• Official Google Blog: Google blogging in 2008
• Inside AdWords: Our Top 10 for 2008
• Inside AdSense: Year in review: 2008
• GrokDotCom: The Best of GrokDotCom 2008
• PPC Hero: Our Top 10 Blog Posts for 2008!
• SearchRank: Top 10 SearchRank Posts for 2008
• Greg Sterling: Top Posts of 2008
• Get Elastic: The Best of Get Elastic: 2008
• Problogger: Best of Problogger 2008
• Network Solutions: Most Powerful 2008 Solutions Are Power Blog Entries
• Small Business Newz: 25 Articles from 2008 Worth Remembering
• HubSpot: HubSpot’s 10 Best Conversations of the Year
• Bootstrapping Blog: The absolute best bootstrapping blog articles from 2008
• Jeremiah Owyang: Looking back on our 2008 Predictions

Miscellaneous

• Social Media Explorer: My Top 5 Social Media Tools of 2008
• Search Engine Journal: Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008
• Infosys: Web Analytics – Year 2008 in Retrospection
• ReadWriteWeb: Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008
• Lifehacker: Most Underhyped Apps of 2008
• Lifehacker: Best New and Improved Software of 2008
• MobileCrunch: Top 10 iPhone App downloads of 2008
• Mashable: 24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008
• Wired: 6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now

Search Engines’ Top Searches

• Yahoo Buzz Year in Review: ’08’s Most Popular Stories
• Yahoo Buzz Year in Review: Top Buzzed Stories in 2008
• Yahoo Top 10 Searches, Top Trends, etc.
• Ask.com Top 2008 Searches
• Google: Fastest rising search terms of 2008
• 2008 Google Zeitgeist
• AOL: 2008 Year-end Hot Searches
• The Lycos 50

If I missed any, please do leave a note in the comments – thanks!