I’ve never been quite so excited to talk about a new service. Maybe it’s just the “waiting for Christmas” phenomenon, where the anticipation over the last year has built up so fully that ecstacy is the only possible response. But enough beating around the bush! Google has just released their social network, and its name is  Google+

Today, Google has launched the first of many design changes that will impact all of their products, including search. Their blog post says the updates will roll over over the next few months, but that they have a philosophy of “constant revision and improvement”, and notes three primary…

There are two threads with complaints from webmasters that Microsoft’s search crawler, now named BingBot, is crawling way too heavily.

I’ve been manically playing with Google Plus for about an hour now and, while there is disagreement here among the editorial team at Search Engine Land, I give it a qualified “thumbs up.” At first glance many people will dismiss Google Plus as redundant and derivative of Twitter… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Online authors are now being highlighted in Google’s search results … if they’re using the recently announced rel=author markup language. Right now, Google says it’s working with a small group of authors who have linked their Google Profiles to their online content. One of..

Biz Stone is following in Evan Williams’ footsteps in stepping away from day-to-day operations at Twitter, joining with Williams and Jason Goldman, also a Blogger and Twitter veteran, to re-form The Obvious Corporation, the company that incubated Twitter. On his blog, Stone explained his…

Gary Price, who is now back writing with Danny and team, tipped me off to a Google Docs Help thread disclosing a bug with new documents. There was a bug where adding new Google Docs would go missing from your documents list

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

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

I was messing around with the new search by image feature on Google Images last night. I uploaded my headshot to Google and Google returned a nude woman as one of the “visually similar results..