Twitter announced that it has improved its “Who To Follow” feature with better people search results and added a new advanced search page, making it easier to do such searches at Twitter.com.

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

Google and patents aren’t necessarily great friends. After all, over the last few years the company has been sued by everyone, their dog, and their dog’s third cousin twice removed.

Among the names announced for Google’s rumored social network are “Google Me” and “Google+1.” Well, at the end of March Google announced that Google +1 is being launched. However, while the utility is social in nature, this certainly isn’t Google’s shot at a service that can compete with Facebook.

Companies like Microsoft and Google have a major advantage due to their sheer size; they can optimize their extra products (such as IE9 and Chrome) for their existing services (such as Bing and Google search). As such, the fact that Microsoft is losing ground with Internet Explorer is significant for all their additional products.

Google develops a lot of new technologies to use internally – including new sources of energy to use in powering its servers and systems, electric cars that may soon drive themselves, and fiber internet access that reaches speeds of about 100 times the current standard. Google has also started to spread some of those technologies outward, and recently announced it would be bringing their ultra-fast fiber web to Kansas City. The exact speed of the internet connection is one gigabit (or a thousand megabits)

In a few of our previous entries, we touched on some of the more elaborate of Google’s April Fools’ jokes in detail. However, there were so many pranks (one, and sometimes more, for all the major Google products) that we weren’t able to cover them all. To make sure you didn’t miss anything too fantastic, here are the other April Fools’ Day hoaxes released by Google.

The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced 2011, June 7-8, 2011 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle. To increase the odds of being selected, be sure to read the agenda

Google’s Street View mapping service infringes privacy, a Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court has ruled. Google must blur all faces, license plates, and ensure the complete anonymity of people near sensitive facilities

A Swiss court says Google must make sure all faces and license plates are blurred on Google Street View, even if Google has to blur them by hand. That’s one of several pieces of the Swiss Federal Administrative Court decision handed down today, and the one that’s likely causing the most… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.