Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Helps LeBron James Make His Decision On Live TV Once again taking advantage of top trends in pop culture and social search, Bing.com is hoping to shoot and score a large number of *** 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….

Once again taking advantage of top trends in pop culture and social search, Bing.com is hoping to shoot and score a large number of new fans as a presenting sponsor of the widely anticipated press conference, titled “The Decision,” to be aired live on ESPN (tonight) Thursday, July 8, at 9 pm ET, where NBA *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

At least according to the latest report from Experian Hitwise, that is. Google continues to hold 71.65% of search share, while Yahoo remained steady at 14%. Percentage of U.S

I just got word that the co-founder of Teoma, the search engine Ask.com acquired to power natural search, Apostolos Gerasoulis has left Ask.com.

We’re only one month away from the first phase of the Microsoft—Yahoo search alliance. Are you ready? By now, there have been numerous opinions published on the upcoming alliance, but not much to set tactical expectations.

If you’re using Foursquare to search for local offers and deals, you may soon find a lot more of them — especially if you live outside of major cities.

The EU is taking anti-competitive allegations regarding the search industry with great attention but Google said it is “confident” is has a “good case” after EU competition commissioner Joaquim Almunia stated that he is “looking at the allegations very seriously.” Click to read the rest of this post…

On Tuesday, The Official YouTube Blog announced the launch of ” Life in a Day ,” a cinematic experiment that will attempt to document July 24, 2010. I emailed my daughter, who attends the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, because she documents all kinds of interesting things with her Flip Video Camcorder

Twitter is slowly but surely imposing itself as a player to be taken seriously in the search business, with the number of queries conducted on Twitter Search now reaching 800 million a day. At the same time, figures were released regarding fellow social site Facebook, showing that the latter had recorded much slower growth in the U.S. in June, although data indicates that overall growth was driven by India and Indonesia.