For the past three hours or so, YouTube, Google’s very popular video portal, has been down.

On Monday, I recommended that you wear your cross training shoes to Connected Marketing Week , which will be held from August 16 to 20, 2010. Today, I’ll give you some recommendations for your cross training workouts at The Moscone Center in San Francisco

An overview of some of today’s ad/tech news. Click to read the rest of this post…

Covario, the provider of interactive marketing analytics , said it still sees global search ad spending by high-tech and consumer electronics firms growing 14% to 18% in 2010. Paid search advertising among those companies rose 16.5% in the second quarter from the first quarter and jumped 35% from the same period a year ago, it said. Click to read the rest of this post…

Google is once more number one search engine in the U.S. for the month of June with a market share of 65%, research firm Nielsen said in a report.

As TechCrunch discovered today, Twitter is now showing a sample of matching usernames/accounts for name-based queries on Twitter.com. A search for matt mcgee (without the @ symbol) now shows my account and the names of two others above the tweets that match the search query. There’s also a small link to view a more complete *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Comscore’s latest search engine rankings report covering the month of June is showing that Google lost around 1.1% market share.  This is almost equal to the combined search market share earnings of Yahoo and Microsoft Bing

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Claims Victory In French Supreme Court Keyword Trademark Case Google wrote that they were victorious in a ruling today by the French Supreme Court over trademark infringement charges brought to them by three *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Claims Victory In French Supreme Court Keyword Trademark Case Google wrote that they were victorious in a ruling today by the French Supreme Court over trademark infringement charges brought to them by three *** 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….