Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: All New Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools Today, Microsoft launched a revamp of their Bing Webmaster Tools. I talked to them back in June, when they previewed the tools at SMX Advanced, and they told *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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….

Yahoo and Microsoft announced more details of the coming integration of their two search engines and it appears from various reports out there that many people do not fully understand how the changes are going to play out. The two had previously given details about some of the paid search changes, but this release goes in to more details about both organic and paid search

If you go to Google News right now, you may never get there. It is currently down and we have no idea when it will come back online. This comes days after Google tweaked their redesign after the never ending..

Remember the First Law of Wing Walking: “Never let hold of what you’ve got until you’ve got hold of something else.” Well, a new report on consumer online shopping behavior from Econsultancy says that marketers still need to focus on targeted and relevant email marketing if they want to enjoy e-commerce success even if consumers are increasingly using social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Click to read the rest of this post..

Today, Microsoft launched a revamp of their Bing Webmaster Tools.

I’ve written a couple of social media case studies over the past year, but I was tipped off to a new one late last night. A brand new group of bed and breakfast hosts, vacation rentals owners, property managers, brokers, and inn keepers called Protect Vacation Rentals is using social media to get Governor David Paterson of New York to veto Bill S6873.

Analytics are great. They provide us with loads of good information. The danger is what we do with that information and in the assumptions we make

Microsoft has just launched a newly updated Bing Webmaster Tools which according to the Bing Community Blog is a huge improvement to the old Microsoft Webmaster Tools.  The update was being carried out after Bing has reached out to the webmaster and SEO communities who are in unison in wanting to have more transparency on how Bing crawls and indexes websites, more control of their website contents in the Bing index as well as more useful information for site optimization on Bing

There are complaints at the Google Places Help forum that the reports are delayed and not updated since July 13th, over a week ago. Google Places provides nice reports including impression, queries, actions and so on. But those reports have…