Before the Super Bowl in both 2009 and 2010, I checked out the search engine results for the Super Bowl start time. In 2009, the results were abysmal.

Part of this week’s debate over whether Microsoft’s Bing search engine is learning from Google involves data that Bing gathers through Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Google has suggested Microsoft isn’t giving fair disclosure.

A fun video making the rounds this week features Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt and his emphasis on using the word “literally” in speeches. Via Whirled , here is tribute/roast in celebration of Schmidt’s 10 years at Google: “Eric Schmidt, Chief Emphatic Officer”: Click to read the rest of this post..

Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of Jan. 30 to Feb.

Tomorrow, many people will be watching Super Bowl XLV to see if the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Green Bay Packers.

Google’s AdSenseAdvisor asked in a WebmasterWorld thread all of those who have not yet switched to the new AdSense interface, why they have not done so yet. The new AdSense interface was first introduced to some publishers back in November 2009..

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how some sites that rank well in Google but only have links from sites they actually own. The disturbed SEO said: Last week…

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…