“LinkedIn Corporation announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock,” Linkedin’s blog reported . Linkedin has 90 million users and is a social networking site for professionals to share their resumes and other work related information. Click to read the rest of this post…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Homepage Gets More Modular, Customizable Google has redesigned the homepage for its AdWords advertiser interface in an effort to bring more relevant,… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google has redesigned the homepage for its AdWords advertiser interface in an effort to bring more relevant, customized information up front for marketers. The main change for the “home” tab is that advertisers can create their own modules based on saved filters created on the campaign…

Google’s Matt Cutts today announced the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and reduce spam in Google’s search results and lower the rankings of scraper sites and sites with little original content. Google’s main target is content farms and sites that copy content from other sites and offer little useful, original content of their own. Click to read the rest of this post…

Some day, the McGee family is going to pack our bags and hightail it to Hawaii. We’ve never been there and would love to spend a week or two on the beaches, in the mountains, and enjoying the weather

One of the most frequent questions I see in the Google Maps Help forum is when will Google update the satellite or street views picture of my house or office.

Earlier this week, Google’s Matt Cutts announced they will be releasing a new on-page spam detection technique to reduce the amount of content spam we see in Google. Matt Cutts just confirmed the rumors that this algorithm is indeed live.

I just wanted to give a quick update on one thing I mentioned in my search engine spam post. My post mentioned that “we’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content.” That change was approved at our weekly quality launch meeting last Thursday and launched earlier this week.

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Mannequins In Server Racks: Google Voice Pick Up Lines:…

Online marketers have realized that traditional metrics such as sales, brand wareness, attitudes etc., are not enough to show return on investment. In fact, some academic studies have shown that marketing actions that improve short term sales may actually harm long term profitability of a brand…