Blekko, the long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public. The service offers an interesting way to “slash” or create specialty search engines for any topic, along with new features the company hopes will improve relevancy. My previous article, Blekko: New Search Engine Lets You “Spin” The Web, goes into *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Posted by Sam Crocker Having access to data and large data sets is something any SEO worth his salt craves. Sure, managing a massive dataset or database can be a bit of a hassle, but having good information is key and there are a handful of uses for other people’s/sites’ data sets that are readily available for purchase online.

On Friday, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley stepped down as the company’s CEO. What impact will this have on YouTube and video marketing?

Google’s lost yet another high profile employee, apparently to Facebook. Another sign that Google’s slipping, to some. Perhaps.

Happy Halloween everyone! Here are the logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Dogpile and others. For the past year’s special Halloween logos, see the 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 Halloween logos

Google has a very special Halloween logo for this year’s holiday.

It’s been a few days since the launch of Google’s new Place Search results, and while there is plenty more prognostication to come on the subject, I thought it would be helpful to sum up the collective wisdom of SEO pundits from around the globe on what it all means for getting traffic to your *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Google just filed its quarterly 10Q statement. Among the things in the filing is detail about Google’s acquisitions in 2010

Here’s a roundup of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Oct. 18 to 22, as reported by Search Engine Watch , as well as search news and tips from around the web. Click to read the rest of this post..

Halloween is tomorrow, meaning searches for costume ideas on Google and Yahoo are hot this week (and have been growing since late August ). Their lists of rising searches may give you a sneak preview of what you can expect to see at Halloween parties this weekend, and what you may want to avoid if you’re looking for some last minute ideas.