Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft To Replace MSNBot With BingBot October 1, 2010 The Bing Search Blog announced that on October 1st, MSNBot will be renamed to BingBot

The publication of an online style guide and a site dedicated to helping publishers is another instance of Yahoo’s concentration on content, and move away from search . This is a big commitment to the online publishing space and the style guide could become the AP stylebook for the web.

The publication of an online style guide and a site dedicated to helping publishers is another instance of Yahoo’s concentration on content, and move away from search . This is a big commitment to the online publishing space and the style guide could become the AP stylebook for the web. Click to read the rest of this post…

The Bing Search Blog announced that on October 1st, MSNBot will be renamed to BingBot. Bing has been testing a beta bot since November of last year. On October 1st, the beta label will be removed from the Bot name and it will be named BingBot

At the SMX Advanced 2010 conference in Seattle, we invited four leading paid search experts to share some of their recent experiments in paid search in a new session entitled The Mad Scientists of Paid Search. The panelists were encouraged to add a bit of academic rigor to their presentations by including their hypotheses, design *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below.

Up to 43 percent of the world’s online population will reside in Asia by 2013, according to projections from Forrester Research. And China will account for 17 percent of the global online population. In mobile, eMarketer forecasts China will have 1.3 billion subscribers and 957 million mobile Web users by 2014.

Google. Pakistan. Rings a bell

At OMMA Video, Brett Wilson, co-founder and CEO of TubeMogul , presented some new research on the tradeoffs between video ad types on Facebook. On Friday, I visited TubeMogul’s offices in Emeryville, CA, and got a full report — at the company’s employee barbecue.