We’re another step closer to the US Federal Trade Commission launching an expected antitrust investigation of Google.

The seemingly inevitable antitrust investigation of Google appears to be taking another step forward, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the US Federal Trade Commission is “poised” to serve the company with subpoenas as part of a probe.

Blekko, the world’s favorite upstart search engine, has made some major recent updates.

Yesterday, Search Engine Watch noticed Google displaying the Google +1 raw counts in the search results when you were signed out of Google. Prior, Google only showed the +1 counts in the search results of people within you Google social network…

Blekko, the hard-line anti-spam search site, has revamped their search results page format both on the front- and back-end. Known as “Zorro,” the update changes numerous visual elements, removes clutter, and adds automatic support for over a thous…

Local SEOs have another tool to add to the “citation belt,” as it were: MapQuest has announced its own Local Business Center, a place where local businesses can add and/or manage their listing(s) on MapQuest.

Roughly one in seven people around the world visit Google monthly.

Search Engine Journal reports that Google AdWords is dropping the custom shapes…

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Imagine a room filled with 20 men or 20 women. Setting aside for a moment that attraction is subjective, if we were asked to identify the most attractive person in the room, most of us could easily narrow it down to the one to two we thought were most attractive