The Google Mobile Blog announced that a new version of Google Goggles is out for Android and iPhone that has a bunch of enhancements, but more importantly can solve a Sodoku game for you faster than the best Sodoku player in the world…

Posted by jennita As the lines of SEO and Social Media continue to be blurred, it’s becoming very clear that getting a page to rank highly in the search engines takes a combination of the two disciplines. So what does the Social Media marketer need to know about SEO in order to make their social campaigns help with search rankings? This post gives those marketers who focus more on Social Media and less on SEO a checklist of ways to optimize for search before (and after) promoting content on the social sites.

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

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Foursquare is going after local businesses and major brands with an improved and expanded content section that explains how they can take advantage of Foursquare’s platform. (Announced via Twitter about an hour ago.) The company’s business outreach has been somewhat scattershot in the…

For those using the latest version of Google Chrome or Firefox, YouTube just made it easier to upload videos with a simple drag and drop option.

The domain portion of your display URL for all ads appearing on Google’s search results pages will begin appearing in all lowercase letters within the next week, Google announced yesterday. Standardizing the look of the URLs improved click-through rates, according to Google’s Lisa Shieh. Click to read the rest of this post..

Google News had a confirmed outage yesterday at 4:25pm EST through about 4:55pm EST. The outage was confirmed by a Google representative in the Google News Help forum.

Hello and welcom back to ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘. After taking a few weeks off over the holidays to re-charge, we’re back stronger than ever with everyone’s favourite weekly round up (it is right?)

With the wide variety of tools, tactics, techniques and strategies in use today by link builders, sometimes the best advice involves the simplest of things.