FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch gave AdAge some insight into the difficulty of implementing a Do Not Track registry or plugin .and why the commission is taking its time before making any permanent decision. Giving his own perspective, Rosch showed his solid knowledge of the difficulties any decision on tracking removal would have on the web and its users, including loss of free access to some sites, the loss of choice and innovation

This week I do a home produced version of the search engine video recap. I start by documenting a new Google PageRank update and then move on into when is Panda/Farmer hitting Google UK…

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 Mouse Map: Yahoo’s Big Purple Door: Honeycomb At GooglePlex:… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Facebook is testing new ad targeting options that display creative beside content that is contextually relevant, similarly to Google’s AdSense but with one important difference — ads would be targeted in real time as conversations are happening on the social network.

In October of last year, Google improved the search queries report by adding percent changes to the Google Webmaster Tools report. So if you want to see if you are improving in your rankings, click throughs and impressions…

“Statistics are like a bikini – what is revealed is interesting but what is hidden is crucial. “ – Aaron Levenstein, Associate Prof. emeritus of Business, Baruch College.

A few weeks ago, we went over the pros and cons of using Phone Extensions and Location Extensions in your AdWords campaigns. This week, I’d like to finish up our AdWords Extension feature by running through the best practices for using Site Extensions and Product Extensions. Using Product…

One of the best ways to take advantage of my husband’s iPad has been using it to keep track of social media updates. I don’t always have time for that while I am working, so reading what my friends share using iPad while on the go has been a great way-out for me.

For the past several months in this column, I’ve been asking a number of people the same question: Where will search go from here?

Google said that it’s not going to release its tablet version of Android, Honeycomb, to the broader market for several months yet.