How does Yandex compare to Google? Can a regional search engine success really survive in the longer term? Ilya Segalovich thinks Yandex can and reveals that Yandex has greater international aspirations.

SES Toronto was held for the first time in May 2004. I was a speaker at the session on “Balancing Paid & Organic Listings.” Flash forward 8 years and SES Toronto 2011 will feature dramatically different content. As Melanie Shatner once said, “I guess some things were just meant for the next generation.” Click to read the rest of this post…

Posted by randfish It’s that time of the month… There’s new data in Linkscape’s index, which means Open Site Explorer , Moz’s SEO Toolbar , our API and many of our other tools all have new links and metrics

A Google AdWords Help thread has complaints from some Google AdWords advertisers that the keyword tool is no longer exporting the “Local Search Trends” data for the past 12 months. Google Keyword Tool Engineer…

A WebmasterWorld thread is asking if anyone noticed a Bing Search update over the weekend.

Google product chief Jonathan Rosenberg is not the first high-profile victim of the Larry Page era. While Google has officially confirmed to us that Rosenberg is leaving effective this summer, he is apparently leaving voluntarily.

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…

Posted by jennita These days it seems like every time we turn around someone is telling us how to manage our Twitter account(s). Whether they’re talking about managing a business, a community or even a personal account, I sort of feel like I’m always being told what to do.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.