Google announced changes coming for merchants who submit product data to the Google Merchant Center for inclusion in Google Product Search…

Google’s YouTube has bought digital video technology company Green Parrot Pictures , a move to enhance video quality and playback speed while reducing bandwidth on the web’s most popular video-sharing site. Click to read the rest of this post…

Topsy has just launched a new search engine that surfaces hot videos that are being shared on Twitter. The company announced Topsy video search this afternoon via its Twitter account. The new video search functions similarly to Topsy’s other search tools — web (links), tweets and..

Goodbye Google Mobile App for iPhone. Hello Google Search App. A new version of the Google app is now available for the iPhone, and this isn’t just a minor feature update — it’s a pretty comprehensive overhaul of the app’s look and functionality

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a Webmaster concerned that since switching to a content delivery network (CDN) his pagerank and search rankings declined. A CDN is a way to host your site or parts of your site on servers that are more scalable in terms of server resources and bandwidth…

How USA Today increased return on investment, interaction, and influence This webcast and guide will discuss: Best practices to promote your brand on Facebook and Twitter Using social media for customer service and engagement USA Today’s social media measurement strategy Download Now Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Posted by Lindsay Left to their own devices, search engine spiders will often perceive important pages as junk, index content that shouldn’t serve as a user entry point, generate duplicate content, along with a slew of other issues. Are you doing everything you can to guide bots through your website and make the most of each visit from search engine spiders? It is a little like child-proofing a home.

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 Tries to Reassure Brand Owners With New Anti-Counterfeiting Measures Counterfeiters seem to love Google AdWords — the company shut down 50,000… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

While President Obama’s administration plans to increase its efforts fighting websites by seeking to make it a felony to illegally stream copyrighted works and obtain wiretaps for suspected intellectual property crimes, Congress is weighing whether it can force search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo to delist “rogue” piracy websites. Click to read the rest of this post..