In the wake of Yahoo’s announcement that they would be releasing new search enhancement features in the coming weeks, today and yesterday they announced on their blog they expanded on two of the enhanced featured. First up is web search for mobile phones

In the wake of Yahoo’s announcement that they would be releasing new search enhancement features in the coming weeks, today and yesterday they announced on their blog they expanded on two of the enhanced featured. First up is web search for mobile phones. Honing in on the most pertinent information for mobile web users, i.e

OneRiot, one of the early entries in the real-time search space, has shut down its consumer-facing search engine that was previously available at OneRiot.com. The company has announced that it will instead focus completely on its advertising network. “Realtime search is still very important to us,” writes OneRiot CEO Tobias Peggs

I believe there’s a process that any person can go through that will make them a better marketer, guaranteed .  I started my own business in 2001 after spending seven years at a large company.  I found out very quickly that when you venture out on your own, you truly are alone . And it’s a lot scarier of a place than being in a corporate bubble.  I found out that when you start your own business, the line between success and failure is razor thin.  And when the decisions you make directly impact how well your business performs, you tend to look at things differently than when you are spending someone else’s money.  And that’s an incredible lesson, and one that’s hard to learn elsewhere

Google gobbled up more paid search spending share last quarter, a result of the Bing/Yahoo integration, according to new reports from Efficient Frontier and SearchIgnite . Google’s share of paid search spend rose from 75.8 percent in Q2 to 77.9 percent in Q3, according to Efficient. SearchIgnite had Google growing to 80.2 percent of PPC ad spend.

UniversalBusinessListing.org is a site that provides home-based and micro businesses with the service of having their business profiles distributed to major search outlets, social networks, directory assistance, navigation services, and online yellow pages.

Ontolo launches V2 of its Link Building Toolset today , making it “ridiculously easy” for SEOs to find and evaluate backlink prospects. SEW expert Garrett French , Co-Founder of Ontolo, says this new breed of link prospecting tool is quite different from other backlink tools out there.

Did you know that in Antartica, Google uses Peguins (aka Penguins) instead of the Pegmans used elsewhere?

Sebastian Thrun, a software engineer at Google, posted on the company’s official blog over the weekend that they have been developing technologies that will allow vehicles to drive themselves . Thrun states that some of the very best engineers have logged over 140,000 miles in the self-driving cars; traveling on the Pacific Coast Highway, across the Golden Gate Bridge, around Lake Tahoe and from their Mountain View campus to their office in Santa Monica.

Welcome to another ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘. It was another fairly busy week out there, not a lot of drama, but plenty of good geekin. Me?