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

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says consumers’ adoption of the company’s mobile services has happened more quickly than executives expected. Schmidt, who is set to step down as CEO in April, spoke at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Palm Springs. “It’s happening, and it’s..

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

So I got an email from Google today asking me to sign my sites up for AdSense, the interesting thing is it came from AdSense but was addressed to me as a Google Analytics user. Guess the algorithm change to remove content farms has left Google’s income stream from AdSense falling a little short

A Cre8asite Forums thread has a rant on a new business cropping up, the business of acquiring positive reviews for your Google Maps local listing or negative reviews for your competitors. This is really not all that new…

Do you like the coolness of simultaneous document editing Google offers, but really need all the features in Microsoft Office? Now you can have both.

Even though the news didn’t hit until late Thursday, Google’s “farmer” algorithm update was one of the hot topics lastweek on our sister site, Sphinn. Three of the most tweeted Sphinn stories of the week were related to the “farmer” update, and several…

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In previous posts, I’ve put a lot of heat on Vivek Wadhwa, who – while he’s clearly knowledgeable – has also released a lot of fairly… let’s say “extreme” ideas for where search should go from here. One of his big ideas was integrating highly filtered social results into the search engine results page.

In the midst of a Gmail disaster (more on that later today), Gmail is adding a set of new features for users. These two options began in the ever-popular “Gmail Labs,” and as with most of the Gmail labs, these two new additions allow users to change the way their inbox looks and behaves