Yesterday Google announced that it was shutting down 800-GOOG-411, the free directory assistance (or voice search) service it launched in April, 2007. Back in those days the mobile landscape looked very different than it does today. It was challenging to conduct searches on most mobile phones and the iPhone was in its infancy

Your Twitter Direct Messages (DMs) are not private. It’s quite easy to use the Twitter API to access your personal information and obtain all the DMs inside your Twitter inbox. When you allow access to log-in to some website or application, you’re also agreeing to let the developer who created this log-in access all your direct messages, and opening yourself to potential abuse.

Google gets blamed for everything these days. Even game show format changes.

Google’s first animated video doodle pays tribute to legendary musician John Lennon, who would have turned 70 tomorrow.

At SMX East earlier this week, Maile Ohye of Google showed new parameter handling features in Google Webmaster Tools.

I just got a media alert from Strategic Search Corporation via LinkedIn, which says, “New BLS Stats Illustrate Unemployment Is Still Painfully High, But One Sector Is Begging For Job Applicants!” Click to read the rest of this post…

Lots of changes in management over the last week at some top companies. Click to read the rest of this post..

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….

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

This just handed me: Experian Hitwise has just announced that Google accounted for 72.15 percent of all U.S.