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

This week at the Search Engine Roundtable I covered some important search related news. Most importantly, Bing partnered with Facebook to add a social element box to the Bing results based on your Facebook friends and what they like.

This week at the Search Engine Roundtable I covered some important search related news. Most importantly, Bing partnered with Facebook to add a social element box to the Bing results based on your Facebook friends and what they like.

Google has removed the “Site Overlay” tool from Google Analytics and replaced it with a new one called “In-Page Analytics.” It’s fairly similar to Site Overlay, but appears on first glance to offer better data visualization and an improved interface. In its announcement, Google admits that the old Site Overlay tool “hasn’t worked as well *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

While many people are focused on the recent launch of Google TV, there are a range of existing alternatives for people who want more than just TV on their TVs — or who may what to “cut the (cable) cord” entirely. The chart below offers a short overview and comparison of the major providers and *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Amit Agarwal reports Google is testing scrollable images on the Google India home page.

Guest blogging has been around for quite some time: plenty of blogs have been inviting contributions from outside for ages.

Google is apparently testing placing AdWords ads at the bottom of the search results, again. A WebmasterWorld thread has two people reporting seeing this recently. One said: I never noticed this before maybe it’s not new.

Fine, maybe not a surprise, but Google released their third quarter earnings for 2010 yesterday. Here are the highlights: Revenues of $7.29 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, an increase of 23% compared to the third quarter of…

Those of you who submit product feeds to Google Product Search, aka Google Merchant Center may want to know about a new advanced usage setting they just released. As Ronald from Google describes in a Google Merchant Center Help thread:..