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….

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal , Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to introduce social-networking elements this fall in “layers” instead a full-on product that has been called Google Me. After it’s not-so-successful Wave project and Orkut’s inability to catch on in the States, the search empire decided to take a new approach to making its name in the social networking scene. Schmidt says they’re “trying to take Google’s core products and add a social component” and with the recent acquisitions of Slide, Angstro , and the $700 million offer for ITA.

Twitter’s rolling out a new design to users that makes the site more interactive and shows more information that before. What’s new for searchers? Here’s our guide! The Search Box Moves Up In the “old” Twitter — or the current version for many people — the search box was easy to overlook, stuck down and to *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Yesterday Twitter announced their new interface for Twitter.com, the most active of all Twitter clients. Their ambition is to speed up the interface and make it easier to use. As part of that mission they have created a separate pain to view embedded content, so that users do not have to leave the website

Google will begin adding “layers” of social networking features starting this fall, rather than unveiling a flashy product to compete with Facebook, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday at Zeitgeist. “We’re trying to take Google’s core products and add a social component,” Schmidt told Reuters . “If you think about it, it’s obvious

As Google moved from Google Suggest to Google Instant last week, I began to wonder what impact it may have on B2B marketers and how to assess that impact.

That was the question posed just now by Eddie Choi from the SES Advisory Board & Managing Director, Frontiers Digital at SES here in Hong Kong . During the keynote panel, Increasing ROI through B2B Lead Generation, myself, Matthias Baur , Corporate e-Business Development Director at Reed Exhibitions and Peter Zapf , Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Global Sources set out to answer it with a most emphatic no! There’s been a lot of talk about whether web marketing, especially social media, holds value for B2B lead generation efforts, and the session was set up to give the assembled throng, here at the Hyatt Hotel in Kowloon, some advice on how to leverage the Internet to drive revenue and lower costs. Click to read the rest of this post..

Google Instant added more advanced search completion and prediction to the Google interface. But when it launched, many asked why certain predictions and completions were not coming up. Google Instant shows search results as you type, but not for lesbian…

Since May, there have been complaints in the Google Web Search Help forum about Google News not sticking with the search query you entered after clicking on the “all x articles” link on a search result. You can replicate this..

Google announced they have redesigned Google Health. The redesign primarily focuses on providing the user with access to wellness information.