Less than a year after Google introduced the DoubleClick Ad Planner Marketplace Google is shutting it down. Google told us back then this was their “solution to help connect buyers and sellers of online advertising..

Everyone growing up has heard of or possibly participated in the old flaming bag of dog poop left at the doorstep of an unsuspecting neighbor. But have you ever seen it done virtually? I have not – at least not until today.

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…

While Google has dominion in most countries, in Russia it’s just a footnote to Yandex, the country’s leading search engine. To ensure the continued market-share leadership, Yandex has partnered with the search site known as Rambler. Yandex’s Par…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Health To Be Shuttered On January 1, 2012 Google Health, the company’s attempt to improve health care by letting consumers move medical data online..

Google AdWords has graduated an experimental feature known as “Interests” to mainstream availability. The feature lets advertisers target users by their broader interests, regardless of the context of the current site. The What and How of AdWord…

Google Health, the company’s attempt to improve health care by letting consumers move medical data online and control who can access it, is shutting down. The service will be retired on January 1, 2012.

There can be no doubt that Google is an innovator. The real question is how many of those innovations actually see success.

Forget the 1-800 numbers, the info@ email addresses, and don’t bother hooking up that fax machine anymore. Facebook business pages are an essential customer and business/brand communication tool that are beginning to replace traditional mediums of customer service and communication between brands..

What should you do if you are stepping into a role as the new “SEO Manager” of a website?