In my “how to choose a URL shortener” article last year, I warned that the country domain that a shortener used might be an issue to consider. A year later, that’s even more so, as a Libyan .ly domain used for an adult content shortener has been closed. Libyan Registrar Takes Back Domain Earlier this week, Nic.ly *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

It has been a few weeks since my last video recap, this was due to holidays. I am back now and this week I covered the past month of SEO changes at Google

The combination of Bing and Yahoo — both of which now use Bing-powered search results — didn’t make any gains on Google during September, according to the latest stats from Experian Hitwise. In fact, not only did the two not gain on Google, but they also lost a little bit of ground compared to August.

3 years ago Google launched a directory assistance service that helped to connect users with business in the U.S. and Canada. This voice-powered tool was the first of Google’s many speech recognition services and was followed by Voice Input, Voice Search and Voice Actions, all of which were built from the foundations of GOOG-411

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says Facebook has a “creepy” amount of personal information about its users, and could become Yahoo’s number one competitor because of the value of that data. Her comments came about 10 days ago at the USA Today CEO Forum in Atlanta, and have just been published today on the paper’s website. When *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Google announced they are discontinuing 1-800-GOOG-411, a voice activated local search service they launched in 2007.

The Yahoo Search Blog announced BOSS is switching, as expected, to a paid model. BOSS which launched in July 2008 has become a favorite of many developers when building their own search engine off of Yahoo’s data. With the organic Yahoo results being powered by Bing now, and the Microsoft deal closed, Yahoo *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

This Saturday would have marked the 70th birthday of legendary icon and member of The Beatles, John Lennon . To honor his memory Google has created an extra special Doodle for its logo, which is on the homepage today. Replacing the brightly colored letters that we are use to, is an ink drawing with the famous shaggy haired and be-speckled image Lennon created of himself as a self-portrait, peeking out from behind to form the double “O”s .

Mozilla posted on their blog yesterday that the new Firefox 4 for mobile beta was available for download and testing .  It is built to be a seamless transition from the desktop experience to users mobile devices.

Most of you have seen the recent and now semi-infamous quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt about how Google goes right “up to” what it considers a taboo boundary — “the creepy line” — but not beyond: “There is what I call the creepy line,” he said at an event at the Newseum. “The Google *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***