Remember the Google Book (Class Action) Settlement? It’s been some time since there’s been any news. After many months of waiting, the court handed down its decision today — a defeat for Google and those who supported the settlement

DoubleClick today is unveiling DoubleClick for Search version 3, only the third major update in the campaign management tool’s five year history.

DoubleClick today is unveiling DoubleClick for Search version 3, only the third major update in the campaign management tool’s five year history. According to the product’s manager, the move signals the Google division’s renewed commitment to the tool, which ties search in with…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Touts Conversion Boost With Call Tracking Solution Call tracking pre-dates the internet.

Majestic SEO announces a “freshness index” tool to the Site Explorer, Clique Hunter, Advanced reports and Standard Reports. The new feature is a big announcement, so big that all the data they provided up until this point has now been renamed as “Historic.” Click to read the rest of this post…

Nachofoto, dubbed the world’s first “Semantic Real Time Image Search Engine” (try and say that with a mouth full of corn chips) is finally out of beta. Strictly speaking, it’s not the world’s first semantic image search engine as Macroglossa is in development in Italy but nonetheless Nachofoto could win the crown

Jack from the Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a Facebook Like Button to your web pages will have no influence on your Google rankings. The response needs to be put in context.

Call tracking pre-dates the internet. At times it has been the subject of intense debate about its use in online (local) marketing (see Related Entries below)

I love when I learn something new, like today when I learned that the Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool only works with English data but Rich Snippets in the main search results works in many many languages.

GetJar released data from a “global survey” about mobile apps and user behavior that offers positive news for the Android platform, which reportedly beats the iPhone in terms of “next phone” purchase demand by more than 2 to 1.