Google launched Street View on Thursday in India, the second most-populous country on earth. But “launch” may be a bit of an overstatement because, in a country that’s also the seventh biggest in square mileage, Google is only taking photographs in one city: Bangalore.

Move over Yahoo, there’s a new display advertising champion in town, as of the first quarter of 2011. You may have heard of the company, as they’ve also been dominating the search advertising category.

During the live Q&A with Matt yesterday, one of the questions bound to come up is when is Google updating Toolbar PageRank. The last Toolbar PageRank update was in January and it has now been 5 months with no PageRank update.

What’s in your wallet? Probably nothing in the near future if Near Field Communications take off. Google Wallet launched today and ClickZ noticed that a search on Google for ‘NFC’ brought up a Mastercard PPC ad promoting the new partnership and or..

Ken Johnston isn’t one of the big names in technology. Rather, he’s one of the many technology employees who fills a vital but often unsung role: that of software tester

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

Google Maps 5.5 for Android was released yesterday, adding new “check in here” and “rate and review” buttons for Places pages, the ability to edit your home/work address for Latitude, and a reorganized transit station pages.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Is It Time For A New Compensation Model For Search And Digital Marketers? Pay for performance is certainly not a new concept.

Posted by caseyhen We all want to build up the reputation and authority of our websites and this week Rand discusses some competitive link analysis tips using Open Site Explorer. He talks about how to avoid some common pitfalls when trying to get similar links that your competitors have and give you a few good ideas on how you should be doing it. If you have any tips that you can share with the community on how you do competitive link analysis, please feel free to share those in the comments

With smartphone usage growing exponentially, this afternoon, Google announced the release of their long-rumored and long-awaited Near Field Communications (NFC) payment system, Google Wallet. Google Wallet is a mobile application for mobile device…