Google is encouraging TV show owners/providers to begin tagging their online videos with several new fields that can be used in both video sitemaps and mRSS feeds. The new fields include specific data for identifying the show/series title, season and episode numbers, premiere date and more….

Google has won a $1.6 million settlement against five defendants that it sued in December 2009 over the use of Google’s name in what the company called “a widespread Internet advertising scam.” Today’s decision involves five of the 50 defendants that Google originally sued:…

If the report by AllFacebook.com – an unofficial watchdog of all things Facebook – is true, the company’s addition of a web search box at the top of their pages could give Bing a windfall of searches soon. Click to read the rest of this post..

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Facebook launched their new Questions feature Thursday and one has to wonder if this could have an impact on search volume. The product is different from most Q&A products in that you get to ask your friends directly – so you know the people at Google will be looking at this new potential diversion from search.

Google (UK) released a new web site, a digital magazine layout, brings forth resources in the form of interviews entitled; Think Quarterly , also available for mobile users . It has been called a book, a newsletter, a magazine, but what it really is, is a resource for business professionals from small-to-large and everything in between.

Go login to your Microsoft adCenter account and try to see if you can manage your search ad campaigns, the search ads that are displayed on Bing, Yahoo Search and their partners.

And you thought Google favored its own properties? Check this out: In Yahoo’s new Search Direct feature, 21 of the 26 one-letter alphabet queries show a Yahoo property as the first “answer.” If you type the letter “A,” for example, Yahoo Answers is the featured result;… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Bing News is now streaming in twitter results on the search pages sidebar. They are now displaying relevant tweets in the news results.

Yahoo made big news in search yesterday by announcing the launch of Yahoo Search Direct. It is like Google Instant but within the search suggestions box