Yesterday afternoon during the Apple earnings call we heard a lot of what might be called, on the basketball court (and elsewhere), “trash talk” from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs was “on fire” and took on various Apple competitors but especially Android and why he thought that Apple’s “integrated” approach was better and ultimately would *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

The launch of Google Instant last month drew new attention to what Google suggests that people search for — and what it purposely omits to keep things family friendly. But over on Google Images, some of the suggestions that appear as you type are more of the soft-porn variety. Girls Gone Wild On Google Here’s what I *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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….

Tomorrow’s Search Marketing Now, webcast looks a new technology that will help any marketer who takes orders over the phone.

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

I’m not seeing it exactly but Google has said the company is making location more “transparent” or more obvious to users so that they can control it and, presumably, offer better location information to Google for an improved overall experience.

In an interview with SeekingAlpha.com Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and VP Jonathan Rosenberg discuss many topics including the company’s third quarter earnings. The company announced them for the first time ever (and believed to be the last time).

Yahoo is planning a feature called Y Connect, in the hopes of driving and tracking traffic and to make more money from advertising, The Wall Street Journal reports . Yahoo isn’t commenting yet.

Over the weekend Google announced on their LatLong blog that they redesigned the look of the Places page. A couple of months ago we noticed that Google had removed Yelp reviews from search results, but were trying to find a way to work with the user generated review site to incorporate their content in Google search results. It appears that they have found a solution because in addtition to other sites, Yelp reviews are now back on Google.

Posted by Dr. Pete Since Google released the Canonical Tag in early 2009, we’ve heard a similar SEO horror story replay itself. It boils down to this: “I accidentally canonicalized my entire site to one page, and my site was completely dropped from the index.” Although the evidence of rel-canonical going very wrong was overwhelming, I decided it was time to get some firsthand data in an effort to help people both avoid this problem and potentially fix it.