Apple is in advanced talks to purchase Chinese ISP and game developer Handseeing , Reuters reported. Click to read the rest of this post…

China’s main search engine Baidu is ready to expand beyond its domestic market, CEO Robin Li said. Click to read the rest of this post…

As expected, Google confirmed rumors that it has purchased social apps platform Slide.

Posted by Melissa at Distilled So you want to get links, but don’t know how to start creating linkable content? Well, don’t worry; I’m going to take you through my process for creating awesome linkbait

Posted by randfish How many presentations do you see that show traffic stats like these? Or this: Or this: These charts aren’t wrong, per se. They’re not lying to you, but they are obscuring the truth, and they’re making it impossible to know what’s going right and wrong

Posted by randfish Like many overly-connected web junkies, I

Demand Media has filed for an IPO. The company, known as a content farm to some, produces much of its content on sites like eHow and others in direct response to what it determines people are searching for on the web. Its filing shed new light on how much it depends on SEO and Google, *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

This week I did the month webmaster review of Google. Google’s Peter Norvig explained how not necessarily the most relevant.

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….

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Where Is Search Going