When Android first entered the market against the already established iPhone and RIM devices, their presence seemed laughable. The Google name brought some appeal and the smartphone lineup had a couple clever features, but that didn’t make much of a dent at first. Well, times have certainly changed.

There’s little doubt that the way we think of shopping has changed.

It’s been a challenging few years for retailers, both online and offline, but things are starting to look up.

While Google’s tactic seems to be to spread further and faster, their competition is doing everything in their power to safeguard their corners of the search engine world. This is done by careful selection of features to focus on and a willingness to pour everything into that small grouping of products. For Bing, these areas include sports, maps, and entertainment.

Every hour, one million spam pages are created. That’s a stat that start-up search engine Blekko has now put out — complete with a new “Spam Clock” showing a count-up of spam pages created since the first of the year. Currently, the Spam Clock estimates that there’s..

Just in time for the opening round of the NFL playoffs (coughGOSEAHAWKS!cough), Bing has followed through on its plans to integrate ticket inventory from FanSnap into its search results.

Google acquires a lot of companies, big and small, and the question has been raised as to whether its size might be undermining future deals. Could the sheer mass of the company, so often indicative of the hyper-corporate structure that quickly drowns out the original vision of company founders, be the reason why some companies have turned Google down recently?

Broadcasted from Jerusalem Israel, I bring you an abridged version of the search video recap.

If you were to ask a search engine marketer what their main goal is for their type of work, they may tell you, “We want our clients’ web site to come up first in search results.” To make their days more challenging, they may monitor popular keywords, create landing pages which are tightly focused… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

This is the first article in which I will coin the phrase “Reputation Conversations”. Expect to hear me use this term further in this column, in future columns for Search Engine Land, and in other intellectual property that I generate