The New York Times must be in need of cash, or repaying favors for Google’s new ‘content farm’ cleaning from the search results which helps their rankings to rise. The newspaper has broken two stories about shady link building lately. The latest being JC Penney and how it seems to rank at the top for every product they sell

Today, the New York Times published an article about a search engine optimization investigation of  J.C. Penney. Perplexed by how well jcpenney.com did in unpaid (organic) search results for practically everything the retailer sold, they asked someone familiar with the world of search engine…

Stephen Colbert & Jimmy Fallon weren’t the only ones having fun with Google’s accusations that Bing was copying Google’s search results.

Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Feb. 6 to 12, as reported by Search Engine Watch , as well as search news and tips from around the web.

Today is Thomas Edison’s 164th birthday. Thomas Edison was one of the world’s most famous inventors

An SEO was kind enough to share his HTML attribute SEO test results with the folks over at WebmasterWorld. He basically wanted to test and see if Google indexed and ranked certain HTML attributes or simply ignore them..

Microsoft and Nokia announced their partnership to join together on new global mobile partnership.

Nokia will adopt Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 as its primary operating system, which means Bing will become the default search engine on all Nokia phones.

According to several sources Twitter is in early talks with Google and Facebook about a potential buyout. How likely is this?