SEMPO names new members to advisory board

SEMPO announced the addition of three new members to their advirosry board...including a guy from Google. I have to agree with what Chris said in his blog about it being kind of weird to have reps from Google and Overture on the advisory board. I guess they're trying to get in nice and cozy with the search engines, but htis is supposed to be an organization of search engine marketers--not the search engines themselves. It's one thing to be a sponsor, but members of the board? It just doesn't make sense to have the search engines running that type of organization. Input, yes. Cooperation, yes, but not running the show.