Social news site and once pretender to the Digg throne, Propeller, announced today that they are shutting down. Click to read the rest of this post…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Schmidt: Forcing Carriers To Provide “Clean” Android Would Violate Principle Of Open Source One of the disturbing things about the Skyhook Wireless lawsuit against Google is the allegation that Google made Motorola drop Skyhook *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Posted by Aaron Wheeler Video SEO isn’t something we always think about when optimizing, but we really should. In this week’s Whiteboard Friday, Danny Dover reviews some of the video SEO basics that every SEO should know about. After all, it’s a largely untapped market, unlike the Canadian maple tree market.

One of the disturbing things about the Skyhook Wireless lawsuit against Google is the allegation that Google made Motorola drop Skyhook as a location provider, especially when Google CEO Eric Schmidt said last week that such restrictions would be “violating the principle of open source.” Schmidt’s comment came during a press lunch at the Google Zeitgeist *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Google is now incorporating rich data into it’s local search results. The upshot of this is that local directories can, on say a restaurant listing, now include the number of reviews and price range of the establishment and it will be displayed in their search listing.

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Google’s Street View continues to face resistance, particularly in European countries where the service has more recently been rolling out. Today brings news that privacy officials in the Czech Republic are refusing to allow Google to resume capturing images with its Street View vehicles. According to a story in The Guardian, the Czech Office for *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

The Forbes 400, the annual list of the richest people in America, was released yesterday, and includes many familiar names in the search and social realm. Here’s a quick rundown of who made the list, as well as their net worth as of August: 11.(tie) Larry Page (Google co-founder), $15 Billion 11.(tie) Sergey Brin (Google co-founder), $15 Billion 16. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO), $13.1 Billion 35

Google says that it’s won a copyright infringement case in Spain over the uploading of copyrighted videos by YouTube users. Telecinco, a Spanish broadcast TV channel, had argued that YouTube is responsible when its users upload videos that infringed on the channel’s copyrights. According to Google’s blog post about the legal decision: The court rejected Telecinco’s claim, *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***