Content sites that once benefited from raucous discussion in comments have complained that some of the conversation has been drained off by social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Facebook today announced changes to its Comment Box widget that will plug the hole a little and keep at least… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Seems Mark Zuckerberg – CEO and creator of Facebook – will be getting his own comic book, the Wall Street Journal reported. Bluewater Productions will be producing the comic written by Jerome Maida.

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

Google representatives, especially those high up on the ladder, are no stranger to major events.

The air is heavy with hatred of spam as analysts rail against current search indexing tactics, a spam clock having been launched to decry the heavy amount of trash being generated, and some people even  burning things to show their rage.

Google is well-known for its app suite, especially for the highly popular Gmail. Gmail has shown as one of the most innovative, stable, and all-around awesome utilities on the web. Nevertheless, the service has just experienced a glitch so bad that it has some users wishing that Larry Page and Sergey Brinn had never given birth to their mental lovechild.

Image via Google Public Policy Google has made some recent updates to their interface, including a more succinct settings menu, as easier way to switch between accounts, and a more visual way of navigating between different services. Analysts have put a variety of potential uses on these changes, ranging from simply updating the graphics to setting the framework for Google +1, the Google social network that may not be as big of a disaster as Buzz. However, the Google Public Policy Blog has given us another potential reason: helping users maintain appropriate anonymity

There are plenty of debates in the world of search today, and “private vs personalized” is one of the big ones.

If you search for “cashmere sweaters under $100″ on Bing or Bing Shopping, the search engine now understands what you mean, returning results for products in the category under the price point specified.

Posted by richardbaxterseo For today’s blog post, I’m going to write about my favourite topic of all, site architecture for SEO. This write up is based on my recent presentation at SES London 2011 , and rather than just posting the slide deck I thought it might be fun to write up a few of the slides with a commentary for each.