Last week I wrote briefly about Google’s John Hanke’s move into a new role, based on a Forbes interview with him. Yesterday I got to speak directly with Hanke about his “new gig,” as they say. The former CEO of Keyhole came to lead the “geo team” (Maps, Earth) at…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a Googler claiming that if you use the remove content feature in Google Webmaster Tools…

By helping solve the fundamental business problem of resource allocation, Google’s freshly announced Mobile Keyword Tool has the potential to ignite mobile search marketing and propel mobile web marketing into orbit, right now. How is that

I’ve been using Fridays to share new fun browser extensions related to SEO, search and social media for about two years now. I’ve shared quite a few FireFox addons that allow for some new searching experiences (like Interclue addon that makes results page more informative and allows for a fun way to preview results or SearchBastard that allows to search multiple search engines within one group and open results in multiple frames or tabs)

In the past month or so, I have been seeing a tremendous number of requests and complaints from “SEOs” that there has not been a Google PageRank update. Google keeps telling them not to worry about PageRank but SEOs don’t hear or listen

Seems talk of another tech bubble occurring in the stock market has been making the rounds of numerous publications.

The head of Google’s search spam fighting team, Matt Cutts, is in Washington DC this week, doing an “educational tour” to explain to US Federal Trade Commission members and congressional staffers that his company’s search results don’t require government regulation…. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Microsoft is now serving Yahoo’s organic search results in three new countries, Yahoo announced today. Click to read the rest of this post…