This week at the Search Engine Roundtable we covered a bunch of Google related SEO topics from Google updates to new Webmaster Tools features. First..

Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from January 2011: Google vs. Bing: The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine The New York Times, Demand Media Edition Confirmed: Google Readies “Google Offers” Groupon Clone Internet-To-TV Players Compared: Roku, Apple TV, Boxee & Google… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Happy new year to you, Bing: According to the latest comScore survey, you experienced a 13% rise in search queries during January. Search activity was up on Google and Yahoo, too, but Bing’s activity rose more than triple those two.

With the resignation of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, the world may have witnessed a true social revolution.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: US Lawmakers Voice Concerns Over Google-ITA Deal Add a few US legislators to the list of parties that are airing concerns over Google’s plan to purchase air…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

On Thursday February 10, Facebook made some much anticipated changes to their Fan Pages. For a good part of the day, confusion reigned supreme.  Some were excited, some were mad and many were just plain confused.  Let’s explore the changes and what they mean to you. There was a glitch that caused the pages to be truncated and there was a lot of speculation that the width of the tabs was being changed.  We heard they were being reduced to 500 pixels, 491, 492 and 493 pixels.  Don’t worry – it’s not true.  It was just a glitch.  From everything I am seeing and hearing, that has been fixed.

Add a few US legislators to the list of parties that are airing concerns over Google’s plan to purchase air travel software provider ITA. According to All Things Digital, two US House members and the Missouri Attorney General sent letters this week to Christine Varney, US Asst.

When the digirati descend on Austin for the SXSW interactive conference next month, Google is hoping their smartphones will brim with local listings and reviews on Places and Hotpot.

Your physical location and past search results will now influence the order of the results you see on Bing, much like features Google has offered for years already. For example, now if you’re searching for pizza place in San Francisco, in the past you would have to type [ San Francisco pizza ]. Now you can simply search for [ pizza ] and Bing will serve results for restaurants in San Francisco