There’s nothing that jaded and weary conference goers love more than to see some “red meat” conflict between panelists during a session. And that’s what TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld repeatedly tried to elicit in an on-stage interview of Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and Google’s John Hanke during the Social Currency CrunchUp event yesterday in Palo *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Twitter is launching a new tool called “Suggestions for You” in the hopes of making it easier for users to find the right accounts to follow. The tool is rolling out today; I don’t have it on my main @mattmcgee account, but it does appear on the home page of my @atu2 account

This week we covered how those pink ads are really “pale purple” and are here to stay by replacing the yellow background color on AdWords. Google revamped their dictionary results. Google’s Matt Cutts talked about his first spam experience

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across 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….

Google has twice as much malware in its search results as Yahoo, Bing, and Twitter combined. That’s one of the findings in the Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, which will be presented tomorrow at the DEFCON 18 hacking conference tomorrow in Las Vegas

In a move that should surprise no one, Microsoft says it will try to block the recently announced Google-Yahoo Japan partnership. In our story from Tuesday, a Microsoft senior VP spoke out strongly against the partnership. Now, Silican Alley Insider received confirmation last night that the company will take steps to challenge it formally

Bits and bobs to keep up with search engine product updates: YouTube, Wolfram|Alpha, Bing Maps and more. Click to read the rest of this post..

Search Marketing Now hosts a free webcast on Tuesday that will include results from a new comScore research study on how consumers shop online. The study focused on consumer behavior in search and buying, with a specific look at what happens when searchers have landed within a retail site

Andy Warhol said in 1968 that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Well, you can now get “15 minutes of fame” on YouTube. Click to read the rest of this post…