Is your website’s URL structure based on the perceived logic of your boss’ teenage son?

A member in the WebmasterWorld forums pointed out Google Image search is testing a new search results preview layout.

Since the time I wrote a post on searching for highlighted text in FireFox, a lot of new, similar tools have made an appearance. However, none of them seemed to really offer anything essentially new… until I discovered today’s fun little addon. KwiClick is a handy tool that lets you choose among four of your favorite search engines, which pop up next to your selected text

Since the time I wrote a post on searching for highlighted text in FireFox, a lot of new, similar tools have made an appearance. However, none of them seemed to really offer anything essentially new… until I discovered today’s fun little addon.

Vitaly Borker, the New York business owner who became notorious last year when he claimed that outrageous behavior toward customers was helping his website rank higher in Google, faces up to six-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty Thursday to several counts against him. According to the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Eli Pariser gave an interesting presentation at TED named Beware online “filter bubbles”. In short he goes through how when Google and Facebook use personalization to show you results, i.e.

Every time Blekko starts to fade from the spotlight, it seems that another big group picks up the story. This time around its the almighty  New York Times , who published a story about Blekko’s attempts to streamline search and provide more useful results. That article serves as a great platform for Blekko, but it also works as a great milestone: the attention of the  New York Times tells us of Blekko’s success, but the article also provides some impressive updated statistics

I wrote a very long examination of the issues that Facebook employed a PR firm to publicize, about how Facebook feels Google may be violating privacy with its Google Social Search product. Here’s a shorter look, especially from the angle of how Facebook itself has enabled Google to do what..

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…