I’ve thought I’ve heard of every Google penalty theory under the sun but I was wrong. The other day, I spotted a thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums by a webmaster claiming to have a “Trademark Suppression Penalty..

Google is a company that’s all about free and open communication, with their mission statement even reading, “to make [the world's information] universally accessible and useful.” Quite to the contrary, the authoritarian government of North Korea is seen as the world’s most closed off nation. It’s somewhat surprising, then, that in early April representatives from North Korea came to the U.S.

In previous entires we covered some of Google’s April Fools’ hoaxes, including the  virtual breathalizer added to Google Voice and  finger aerobics added by Google Chrome.  Gmail Motion , however, is a different prank in one special way: it’s been made real, thanks to Evan Suma and the team at Mark Bolas’ MxR Lab. The MxR lab was quick on their response, creating a real-life version of the fake Google product using their existing technology within just a few hours. MxR’s technology, FAAST (Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit), uses the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor as a medium by which other interfaces, including operating system interfaces, can be controlled

Back in December, an image from a Yahoo in-company slideshow warned us that several major sites would be “sunset,” including popular community sites like delicious and search sites like AlltheWeb and Alta Vista. For AlltheWeb the news was made official in March, when a message appeared on the site indicating that the site’s final day would be April 4th.

Does the web browser you use say anything about your preferred search engine? It might, according to some data just published by Chitika. After measuring activity across the 80,000 or so sites in its ad network, Chitika reports that Bing usage is tied to which version of Internet Explorer a person…

Here’s a roundup of today’s other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category.

Twitter has launched a new home page design that the company says should be visible to all users now. Sure enough, I logged out and there it was. As you can see from the screenshot above, the new home page is less cluttered and instead focuses on a single statement: “Follow your…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Twenty-six Internet companies, including Google, tomorrow will lodge a complaint with France’s State Council, the country’s highest judical body, in opposition of a decree that forces sites to store users’ private data for a year. Click to read the rest of this post..

Posted by JoannaLord I’ve wanted to write this post for a couple weeks now, knowing that the topic of retargeting is hot, hot, hot. I