The 2010 mobile holiday season is now just 30 days out.

Earlier this week, site owners noticed that substantial Yahoo Site Explorer link data seemed to be missing.

Earlier this week, site owners noticed that substantial Yahoo Site Explorer link data seemed to be missing. A glitch? Gone for good?

Shared by results appeared in Google earlier this week and a number of people have asked how you get to see them. So, to clear up any confusion, here’s a very short explanation

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.

No one seems to be immune from a Google indexing problem that has many site owners baffled. Blogs and websites, big and small, aren’t being indexed as quickly as they normally are — if they’re being indexed at all. CNN.com, with its PageRank score of 10, is typically crawled frequently and deeply by Googlebot.

Google has released a Chrome browser extension that simplifies and encourages spam reporting. Earlier today, Matt Cutts, Google’s web spam chief, tweeted about the Google Webspam Report extension. The extension adds a “Report spam” link (or button) in four places: under each listing in Google’s search results pages (seen above) your Google search history your Chrome browser history next *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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

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….

The three biggest U.S. networks have blocked access to full-length episodes of television shows that are available for streaming on their websites, meaning anyone who bought a brand new Google TV this week is out of luck — for now. Click to read the rest of this post..