A Google Webmaster Help thread has a Googler explaining to a disgruntled searcher why spam makes it into the Google search results. Jack from Google explained that it is hard for Google to prevent all spam attempts on their index

Hyundai will showcase their online tracking service during CES and must be hoping parents may soon be making it the popular way to know where their children are.

Toyota and Microsoft will announce details of their partnership for its “revolutionary in-car experience” Entune which will include voice activated search using Bing through the driver’s mobile phone’s data plan. “Entune™ is a revolutionary in-car experience that keeps you and your Toyota connected. It’s never been easier.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the SEC is reportedly looking into the recent Goldman Sachs Facebook investment.

Happy new year everyone, and welcome to the year of mobile! I’ll pause to let my mobile colleagues stop laughing, as the year of mobile has been an industry joke since at least 2005, if not before. Did you know O’Reilly declared 2005 to be “the year of local mobile search” in March of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The highly anticipated Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opens in Las Vegas tomorrow. Sears’ Blue Blogger Crew will be covering the event, but what we really want to know is..

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…

Google CFO Patrick Pichette may have said Google wants to give the Chinese people open access to information as part of the company’s global mission, but the loss of their access to the country with the greatest number of online users is a market and profit potential they would not want to lose. “China wants Google,” Pichette told the Times of London. But he should have added Google wants China, one of the few countries that the company does not have a dominant share of the search market.

Although global marketers often dream of taming the Chinese dragon, the Indian elephant may get them farther, faster. Why? The Indian market is now more measurable.