During the Microsoft keynote Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, CEO Steve Balmer noted “everyone who is enjoying Kinect knows that today it listens to your voice, and tracks your body, but what about your facial expressions? As you can see, now Kinect can track features like your smile, your laugh, and even the raise of your eyebrows,” the Huffington Post reported

Believe it or not, I am not a huge fan of placing robots.txt files on sites unless you want to specifically block content and sections from Google or other search engines. It just always felt redundant to tell a search engine they can crawl your site when they will do so unless you tell them not to.

Search and news stories are very closely related. In this age of watching TV with laptop at hand, we tend to search for things we see on the TV – and the CES flood of internet TV applications and hardware attests to this – it is no wonder the predicted top of the NFL draft decision to stay in school would get people searching for more information. Google trends shows how much this one news article has swamped the search engine, Click to read the rest of this post..

Turnover in the SEM world has been a long-standing challenge as annual churn estimates from Borrell Associates range from 50-70 percent. While every organization cites a slightly different number, the issue represents real revenue dollars as finding and onboarding a new client or a new SEM agency…

Google is sending new warnings to webmasters when it suspects the sites may have spam-related problems that need to be addressed.

Localeze’s ambitions to be the single management source for all local listings on the web got yet another boost yesterday.

Well known link builder, martinibuster, started a thread at WebmasterWorld to cultivate a wish list of link building changes for 2011. He asked two questions: (1) What would you like to see in link building for 2011

South Korean police are planning to file criminal charges against Google executives over the collection of personal data via unsecured wifi networks. According to IDG News/PCWorld, the country’s national police agency has determined that Google acted illegally when it gathered personal data… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Matt Cutts of Google said in his PubCon Keynote a month or so ago that Google would be stepping up their notifications of spam issues and they indeed have…

A Wisconsin man was convicted of his wife’s murder with evidence that included his search history of the ingredients used to kill her, Forbes reported. On the morning of Julie Jensen’s death “someone attempted to “double-delete” (apparently unsuccessfully) the computer’s browsing history, which included a search for “ethylene glycol poisoning.” She died from that method of poisoning