The Bing Search Blog just posted pictures of how Bing looks and acts on a Windows Phone 7 device.

A week after reporting its second-quarter earnings , Google is facing a probe by 38 U.S. States

Google is now facing probes by a total of 38 States in the U.S., including the District of Columbia, over its StreetView Wi-Fi data collection. Connecticut’s attorney general is now quizzing the search giant on the ’snooping’ process. Click to read the rest of this post..

I spotted two isolated issues where a Googler confirmed a weird bug in Google’s web search & quality classification system. TheJack from Google posted responses in two different Google Webmaster Help threads.

We cover most of Google’s special logos, also known as “Doodles” here. I wanted to share a video posted by Google named “Meet the Doodlers.” It showcases some of those Google designers who are responsible for some of the Doodles you have seen throughout the years and shows off some of the Doodle *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Search advertising spend is on the rise for small- and medium-sized businesses. In fact, that would be the understatement of the year: SMB ad spending in the second-quarter soared 159% from last year, according to a WebVisible report. What’s more is that Yahoo is pulling the dollars away from Google and Ask

Google has been doing a lot of redesigning these days.

Mobile is becoming more & more a part of an Internet Marketers life as Android is at the heart of that acceleration. Symbian dominates mobile devices worldwide while Blackberry leads here in North America, albeit both are losing share at an accelerated place, perhaps in part because those devices provide relatively poor to no web browsing. Although much better, browsing & search itself on the iPhone has always been secondary to its apps as Steve Jobs stated himself , “search hasn’t happened.” Thus for years at Internet Marketing conferences mobile search was a side session filled with charts & graphs prognosticating a huge market for the mobile web & search, but no real action items as its always for next year

Conduct a search for literally any letter in the alphabet. Try a search for [s] in Google and the number two result, at least for me, is a Twitter username/profile.

For a moon or two now, there has been this debate about whether link-builders are, in actual fact, SEO’s or whether they should sit in a different realm – sitting more closely with business development or PR.  Much of what link-builders do, after all, is relationship focussed, prospecting and of course results driven – this to me sounds very much like a salesmanship.  But it’s more than that – it’s the full plethora of what true SEO can deliver for a business. Now, I think in many respects, competent link-builders are the most all-rounded SEO’s in the sector (not simply salesy folk at all), with skills to not only develop campaigns to build a website’s authority and trust through relationships and activity, but also to understand key marketing principles at the root of all SEO activity, or the potential a relationship with a site owner might be worth.  Now, a couple of guys in my team might laugh when they read that as they’ll remember a horrible acronym that I’ve used in training materials: RAMRAT.  In my opinion, everything in SEO should consider ROI, Accessibility, Marketability, Relevancy, Authority and Trust.  I also suggested another couple of acronyms too, but they didn’t sound so ridiculous so didn’t stick with the team… The idea is that each of these items should be considered in light of what both robots and humans perceive.  Let’s take how they might be perceived by humans and search engines: ROI : well if you do everything else in this list to full effect, then there certainly should be return on investment in that there is great authority, trust and relevancy attributed to the website you’re working on