Bing announced you can now search Bing Shopping like a human by just typing out, conversational style, what you are looking for. The examples give include [hudsons jeans under $200] or [air jordans under $100]…

Google is serving a new custom 404 page when you stumble across a page that doesn’t exist. It tells you: “404. That’s an error.

Google yesterday acquired German software company Zynamics, a company that specializes in reverse-engineering and analysis tools. Seems like the acquisition came just in time, because only a few hours later, 21 free apps were pulled from the Android Marketplace due to malware

Facebook’s list of preferred advertisers went into effect Monday, and Google AdSense isn’t on the list. This new list prohibits developers from making revenue from their Facebook applications via AdSense. Click to read the rest of this post…

A good referral may still be the best way to find a consumer driven business. However, with more and more decisions being made online, it is increasingly important for marketers to manage their client’s images.

So SES London was a blast wasn’t it? More parties than any single year and a new venue slap bang in the heart of London should have given you plenty of opportunities to network with the buzzing search marketing industry in the UK. If you forgot to print any business cards, or if paper just ain’t your style these days, then you might be pleased to know that you can follow everyone who contributed to the #sesuk conversation on Twitter via our SES London Tweetwall .

UK based SEO firm BrightLocal is conducting a local SEO survey. The survey covers the US, Canadian and UK markets and asks specifically about local SEO practices

Wired reports Google’s Amit Singhal as saying they will be tweaking and fine tuning the Google Farmer Update to make it as close to a 100% accurate as possible. I am not sure why anyone is surprised by this..

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single website in possession of good traffic must be in want of conversion events.  As much as this is a dreadful hack of the famous opening line to Pride and Prejudice – it is sadly, a truth not universally acknowledged among site owners. Even… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The results are in and more than the handful of “low-quality sites” have been swept from Google’s search rankings . Many innocent sites that may have a few flaws — the ones a natural site would have if not worked over hard by an SEO — have fallen through the cracks. The cries are coming from everywhere — industry insiders finding problems, small very niched sites whose content you would be hard to find in too many places, e-commerce sites with good unique content but copied by competitors or whose navigation takes up too much of the total content on a given page…