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.

When it comes to custom landing tabs, all the big brands have them, all little businesses want them, but just how effective are they in engaging your Facebook Page’s following?

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Do Internet users in the southern US do more local searches than the rest of the country?

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 Testing URLs Above Descriptions In AdWords Google is testing a variation on AdWords display that has the URLs shown above the two lines of description, but…

Insurance keywords are the most searched for on Google, making insurance the most expensive category on Google AdWords and the top PPC money-maker for Google. Bidding on insurance keywords can cost advertisers up to $55 per click, according to a n…

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent state and on the 14th it became a member state at the United Nations. Now that this has been made official, as per the United Nations…

The Russian search engine Yandex recently translated its Yandex.Webmaster service to English. Originally a tool for Russian webmasters, Yandex.Webmaster is similar to other tools for webmasters offered by both Google and Bing

Fast Company has a fascinating article on Bing’s background images and how they are used to market the Bing service.

All eyes have been on the live investigation of the phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media empire.