Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Jan.

It’s hard to believe but today is Wikipedia ’s 10th birthday.

Search Engine Optimization is a marathon, not a sprint, when properly strategized and implemented. The most effective SEO case studies look at periods greater than one year…

Google announced a new program designed to help webmasters, web-designers, digital agencys, freelancers, SEOs, IT consultants and so on to use Google AdWords. The program is named Google Engage for Agencies. It is available currently only in the US or UK..

The South Korean government said Google had violated privacy collecting “e-mails and other personal information from unsecured wireless networks while it took photos of neighborhoods in South Korea for its Street View mapping service between October 2009 and May 2010,” the Mercury News reported . Google’s collection of global data has met with numerous privacy issues throughout Europe and now seems to be adding Australiasia to the mix. Australia is investigating the activity and now S.

In a post on the Official Google Blog the company congratulated the auto industry on a strong start to the new year and linked to the 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Interestingly, only Ford appeared in the top 10 searches for auto makes over the past 30 days. Click to read the rest of this post…

I am back in New York and this week’s video recap should be clearer. SEOs have been begging for a Toolbar PageRank update and some got it

Yahoo Product Chief Blake Irving just tweeted a ringing endorsement of Flickr, the company’s photo sharing site/community.

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