The long-rumored Google +1 social layer is now reality, but one of the oddities of today’s announcement is that website owners can’t put +1 voting buttons on their websites or blogs yet.

Here’s a roundup of today’s other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category. Click to read the rest of this post…

A little more than a year after announcing its plans to build a superfast, experimental broadband network somewhere in the U.S., Google has announced where that’s going to happen: Kansas City, Kansas. In selecting a city, our goal was to find a location where we could build efficiently, make… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Meet +1: Google’s Answer To The Facebook Like Button Nearly a year after Facebook Like buttons spread out across the web, Google has announced its own… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

In a dynamic and constantly changing world like internet marketing, measuring the outcomes of our activities is increasingly important. To get a deeper understanding about the most important developments in 2010 and the biggest challenges lying ahead for us in the rest of 2011, I interviewed four… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

In December, before the holiday season, Google warned us that they would be slowing the approval process for accepting new publishers into Google News…

Anyone who has walked in to a high school science classroom across the globe remembers the first time they saw a Bunsen burner – one of the first awestruck moments of our youth – the stuff of every mad scientist movie we had watched as kids was there sitting at our desks. In recognition of Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday, Google has honored the inventor with a Doodle – March 31st – and is showing on the Google homepage for countries where it is already that day. Click to read the rest of this post..

British SEO tools company, Linkdex, has released data to Search Engine Watch that suggests, in their assessment, that JC Penney’s link buying strategy was simply just good business sense.

Nearly a year after Facebook Like buttons spread out across the web, Google has announced its own rival, the +1 button.

As you read earlier the US Federal Trade Commission concluded its investigation of Google over the company’s supposedly “deceptive privacy practices in Google’s rollout of its Buzz social network.” My view after talking to people at Google following the Buzz launch is that… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.